2016 FIA World Rallycross Championship

2016 FIA World Rallycross Championship
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Support series: European Rallycross Championship

The 2016 FIA World Rallycross Championship presented by Monster Energy is the third season of the FIA World Rallycross Championship. The season consists of twelve rounds and will start on 16 April with the Portuguese round at Montalegre. The season will end on 27 November, at Rosario, Santa Fe in Argentina.

Petter Solberg was the defending drivers' champion. Team Hansen-Peugeot were the defending teams' champions. After 11 rounds, Mattias Ekström clinched the Drivers Championship. His team EKS secured the teams championship at the final round in Argentina.

Calendar

2016 World RX calendar by nations

On 30 October 2015 the 2016 calendar was announced, removing the rounds in Italy and Turkey and adding an event in Latvia.^[1] On 2 December 2015 the FIA World Motor Sport Council approved in Paris the 2016 FIA World Rallycross Championship calendar and confirmed the separation of European and World Rallycross heats during events.^[2]

Rnd.	Event	Dates	Venue	Winner	Team	Report
1	Bompiso World RX of Portugal	April 16–17	Pista Automóvel de Montalegre	Petter Solberg	Petter Solberg World RX Team¹	report
2	World RX of Hockenheim	May 7–8	Hockenheimring	Mattias Ekström	EKS RX	report
3	Kapaza World RX of Belgium	May 14–15	Circuit Jules Tacheny Mettet	Mattias Ekström	EKS RX	report
4	World RX of Great Britain	May 28–29	Lydden Hill Race Circuit	Mattias Ekström	EKS RX	report
5	NAF World RX of Norway	June 11–12	Lånkebanen	Andreas Bakkerud	Hoonigan Racing Division	report
6	Volkswagen World RX of Sweden	July 2–3	Höljesbanan	Andreas Bakkerud	Hoonigan Racing Division	report
7	World RX of Canada	August 6–7	Circuit Trois-Rivières	Timmy Hansen	Team Peugeot-Hansen	report
8	Bretagne World RX of France	September 3–4	Circuit de Lohéac	Johan Kristoffersson	Volkswagen RX Sweden	report
9	World RX of Barcelona	September 17–18	Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya	Mattias Ekström	EKS RX	report
10	Neste World RX of Latvia	October 1–2	Biķernieku Kompleksā Sporta Bāze	Sébastien Loeb	Team Peugeot-Hansen	report
11	All-inkl.com World RX of Germany	October 15–16	Estering	Kevin Eriksson	Olsbergs MSE	report
12	World RX of Argentina	November 26–27	Autódromo Rosario	Andreas Bakkerud	Hoonigan Racing Division	report

¹ = As one-car team not eligible to score team championship points.

Teams and drivers

Permanent entries
Constructor	Entrant	Car	No.	Driver	Rounds
Audi	EKS RX[3]	Audi S1	5	Mattias Ekström	All
			57	Toomas Heikkinen	All
	Larsson Jernberg Motorsport[4]	Audi A1	4	Robin Larsson	All
Citroën	Petter Solberg World RX Team[5]	Citroën DS3	1	Petter Solberg	All
Ford	Hoonigan Racing Division[6]	Ford Focus RS[7]	13	Andreas Bakkerud[8]	All
			43	Ken Block	All
	Olsbergs MSE[9]	Ford Fiesta ST	68	Niclas Grönholm	1–11
			96	Kevin Eriksson	1–7, 9-12
			29	Yann Le Jossec	8
			15	Reinis Nitišs	9-10, 12
	World RX Team Austria[10]	Ford Fiesta	6	Jānis Baumanis	All
			7	Timur Timerzyanov	All
Mini	JRM Racing[11]	Mini Countryman	33	Liam Doran^1	1–6
			65	Guerlain Chicherit	8–9, 11
			37	Guy Wilks	9-10
			94	Nick Jones	12
Peugeot	Team Peugeot-Hansen[12]	Peugeot 208	9	Sébastien Loeb	All
			21	Timmy Hansen	All
	Peugeot-Hansen Academy		17	Davy Jeanney	1–6, 8-11
			71	Kevin Hansen	1–2, 4, 8, 11
SEAT	all-inkl.com Münnich Motorsport[13]	SEAT Ibiza Cupra	15	Reinis Nitišs^2	1–8
			55	René Münnich	1–11
			44	Timo Scheider	9-10, 12
			24	Tommy Rustad	11
			77	René Münnich	12
Volkswagen	Volkswagen RX Sweden[14]	Volkswagen Polo	3	Johan Kristoffersson	All
			92	Anton Marklund	All
Non-permanent entries ineligible to score team points Constructor Entrant Car No. Driver Rounds Audi Racing-Com KFT Audi A1 102 Tamás Kárai 8 Citroën DA Racing Citroën DS3 87 Jean-Baptiste Dubourg 2, 8, 11 Hervé "Knapick" Lemonnier 84 "Knapick" 8 Ford Bompiso Racing Team Ford Focus 41 Joaquim Santos 1 World RX Team Austria Ford Fiesta 31 Max Pucher 2, 4 Ecurie Bayard ASBL 67 François Duval 3 Guy Wilks 37 Guy Wilks 4 Julian Godfrey 51 Julian Godfrey 4 Olsbergs MSE 23 Richard Göransson 6 113 Cyril Raymond 11 Oliver O'Donovan 2 Oliver O'Donovan 8 "M.D.K" 49 "M.D.K" 8, 11 Pascal Le Nouvel 98 Pascal Le Nouvel 8 Reinsalu Sport 10 Janno Ligur 10 Andreas Steffen 80 Andreas Steffen 11 Kia Gigi Galli Kia Rio 25 Gigi Galli 10-11 Mitsubishi Eklund Motorsport Mitsubishi Mirage 60 Joni-Pekka Rajala 11 Peugeot Fredrik Salsten Peugeot 208 11 Fredrik Salsten 8 Albatec Racing 24 Tommy Rustad 8 26 Andy Scott 8 121 Philippe Maloigne 8 Patrick Guillerme 83 Patrick Guillerme 8 Renault Fabien Chanoine Renault Clio 89 Fabien Chanoine 8 Škoda Motorsport LT[15] Škoda Fabia 88 Nerijus Naujokaitis 10 Volkswagen Volkswagen RX Sweden Volkswagen Polo 34 Tanner Foust 4, 11[16] Hedströms Motorsport 8 Peter Hedström 11 Per Eklund Motorsport Volkswagen Beetle 53 Alexander Hvaal 11

* Entries in grey denote one-car teams which are ineligible to score teams championship points.

¹ = JRM has announced the termination of Liam Doran's contract with the team following the sixth round (Sweden) of the championship.^[17]

² = Nitišs will leave the Münnich Motorsport team following event eight (France) and will return to Olsbergs MSE for event nine (Barcelona).^[18]

Championship Standings

FIA World Rallycross Championship for Drivers

Pos.	Driver	POR	HOC	BEL	GBR	NOR	SWE	CAN	FRA	BAR	LAT	GER	ARG	Points
1	Mattias Ekström	10	1	1	1	3	6	8	8	1	2	5	5	272
2	Johan Kristoffersson	6	7	6	12	7	5	3	1	6	5	6	2	240
3	Andreas Bakkerud	4	12	14	6	1	1	2	2	7	4	3	1	239
4	Petter Solberg	1	4	3	2	4	7	5	4	10	19	2	7	239
5	Sébastien Loeb	5	10	2	10	5	2	9	3	8	1	9	8	209
6	Timmy Hansen	12	18	7	3	2	3	1	11	2	3	8	13	178
7	Toomas Heikkinen	3	2	16	11	9	9	4	15	9	9	10	3	150
8	Timur Timerzyanov	16	17	8	5	6	14	7	30	3	6	14	9	117
9	Robin Larsson	2	6	13	15	10	8	16	12	5	12	13	6	109
10	Jānis Baumanis	14	8	9	7	8	10	15	26	4	8	7	12	109
11	Kevin Eriksson	7	11	10	8	13	15	11		11	13	1	16	92
12	Davy Jeanney	8	9	11	13	11	12		7	12	10	11		86
13	Anton Marklund	9	15	4	9	15	4	6	18	14	15	15	11	76
14	Ken Block	18	3	19	14	14	13	10	6	16	16	12	15	63
15	Kevin Hansen	13	19		4				9			4		52
16	Reinis Nitišs	15	13	12	21	12	18	13	5	13	11		10	44
17	Niclas Grönholm	17	14	15	16	16	11	12	14	15	18	19		28
18	Timo Scheider									17	7		4	25
19	François Duval			5										18
20	Liam Doran	10	5	17	19	17	16							9
21	Andy Scott								10					6
22	Tommy Rustad								13			25		4
23	Guy Wilks				17					19	14			3
24	Jean-Baptiste Dubourg		16						17					1
25	Peter Hedström											16		1
27	René Münnich	19	20	18	18	18	19	14	16	18	22	24	14	-3

FIA World Rallycross Championship for Teams

Pos.	Team	No.	Drivers	Points
1	EKS RX	5	Mattias Ekström	422
		57	Toomas Heikkinen
2	Team Peugeot-Hansen	9	Sébastien Loeb	387
		21	Timmy Hansen
3	Volkswagen RX Sweden	3	Johan Kristoffersson	316
		92	Anton Marklund
4	Hoonigan Racing Division	13	Andreas Bakkerud	302
		43	Ken Block
5	World RX Team Austria	6	Jānis Baumanis	226
		7	Timur Timerzyanov
6	Olsbergs MSE	68	Niclas Grönholm	132
		96	Kevin Eriksson
7	all-inkl.com Münnich Motorsport	15	Reinis Nitišs	67
		55	René Münnich

References

1. "WORLD RX REVEALS ITS 2016 CALENDAR". fiaworldrallycross.com. Retrieved 30 October 2015.
2. "FIA ANNOUNCES WORLD MOTOR SPORT COUNCIL DECISIONS". FIA. 2 December 2015. Retrieved 12 December 2015.
3. "EKS becomes a bit Finnish". EKSRX.com. 21 March 2016.
4. "LARSSON SIGNS UP FOR FULL WORLD RX CAMPAIGN". fiaworldrallycross.com. 18 March 2016.
5. "BUMPER ENTRY FOR 2016 WORLD AND EURO RX CHAMPIONSHIPS". fiaworldrallycross.com. 25 March 2016.
6. "BLOCK CONFIRMS FULL WORLD RX CAMPAIGN". www.fiaworldrallycross.com. 13 January 2016. Retrieved 13 January 2016.
7. "FOCUS RS CONFIRMED BY FORD PERFORMANCE FOR COMPETITION IN 2016 FIA WORLD RALLYCROSS CHAMPIONSHIP". Official Ford Performance. 2 March 2016. Retrieved 2 March 2016.
8. "Bakkerud joins Ken Block's squad". crash.net. 20 January 2016. Retrieved 21 January 2016.
9. "Eriksson and Grönholm in new cooperation for future champions". OlsbergsMSE. 17 March 2016. Retrieved 17 March 2016.
10. "WORLD RX TEAM AUSTRIA SIGNS TIMERZYANOV AND BAUMANIS". www.fiaworldrallycross.com. Retrieved 17 February 2016.
11. "DORAN JOINS JRM RACING FOR 2016". fiaworldrallycross.com. 22 March 2016.
12. "Sébastien Loeb joins Rallycross World Champions Team Peugeot-Hansen". Peugeot Sport. 29 February 2016. Retrieved 29 February 2016.
13. "NITISS MOVES TO ALL-INKL.COM RACING WITH NEW SEAT IBIZA". www.fiaworldrallycross.com. 1 March 2016. Retrieved 1 March 2016.
14. "Volkswagen's top World Rallycross Championship teams merge for 2016". Autosport. 11 December 2015. Retrieved 14 December 2015.
15. "LITHUANIA'S NAUJOKAITIS JOINS WORLD RX IN SKODA FABIA". FIA World Rallycross Championship. Retrieved 18 August 2016.
16. "FOUST TO COMPETE AT LYDDEN HILL RX". FIA World Rallycross Championship. 10 May 2016. Retrieved 10 May 2016.
17. "JRM RACING TEAM STATEMENT ABOUT LIAM DORAN". FIA World Rallycross Championship. Retrieved 21 July 2016.
18. "Nitiss to race for OlsbergsMSE in Barcelona". Motorsport.com. Retrieved 31 August 2016.

External links

• Official website