The 2017 FIA World Rallycross Championship presented by Monster Energy was the fourth season of the FIA World Rallycross Championship. The season consists of twelve rounds, started on 1 April with the Spanish round at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya and concluded on 12 November at the Killarney Motor Racing Complex in Cape Town, South Africa.

Johan Kristoffersson was the season's Driver's Champion, claiming it at the Neste World RX of Latvia. The Teams' Championship was won by PSRX Volkswagen Sweden.

Calendar

On 17 October 2016 the provisional 2017 calendar was released. It once again contained twelve rounds; however the Argentine event was discontinued in favour of a new event in South Africa.[1] Half of the rounds were supported by the RX2 category—formerly known as RX Lites.

Rnd. Event Dates Venue Class Winner Team Report
1 Spain World RX of Barcelona 1–2 April Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, Montmeló Supercar Sweden Mattias Ekström Sweden EKS RX Report
2 Portugal World RX of Portugal 22–23 April Pista Automóvel de Montalegre, Montalegre Supercar Sweden Mattias Ekström Sweden EKS RX Report
3 Germany World RX of Hockenheim 5–7 May Hockenheimring, Hockenheim Supercar Sweden Mattias Ekström Sweden EKS RX Report
4 Belgium World RX of Belgium 13–14 May Circuit Jules Tacheny Mettet, Mettet Supercar Sweden Johan Kristoffersson Sweden PSRX Volkswagen Sweden Report
RX2 France Cyril Raymond Sweden Olsbergs MSE
5 United Kingdom World RX of Great Britain 27–28 May Lydden Hill Race Circuit, Wootton Supercar Norway Petter Solberg Sweden PSRX Volkswagen Sweden Report
RX2 France Cyril Raymond Sweden Olsbergs MSE
6 Norway World RX of Norway 10–11 June Lånkebanen, Hell Supercar Sweden Johan Kristoffersson Sweden PSRX Volkswagen Sweden Report
RX2 France Cyril Raymond Sweden Olsbergs MSE
7 Sweden World RX of Sweden 1–2 July Höljesbanan, Höljes Supercar Sweden Johan Kristoffersson Sweden PSRX Volkswagen Sweden Report
RX2 United Kingdom Dan Rooke United Kingdom Team Faren
8 Canada World RX of Canada 5–6 August Circuit Trois-Rivières, Trois-Rivières Supercar Sweden Johan Kristoffersson Sweden PSRX Volkswagen Sweden Report
RX2 France Cyril Raymond Sweden Olsbergs MSE
9 France World RX of France 2–3 September Circuit de Lohéac, Lohéac Supercar Sweden Johan Kristoffersson Sweden PSRX Volkswagen Sweden Report
RX2 France Cyril Raymond Sweden Olsbergs MSE
10 Latvia World RX of Latvia 16–17 September Biķernieku Kompleksā Sporta Bāze, Riga Supercar Sweden Johan Kristoffersson Sweden PSRX Volkswagen Sweden Report
11 Germany World RX of Germany 30 September–1 October Estering, Buxtehude Supercar Sweden Mattias Ekström Sweden EKS RX Report
12 South Africa World RX of South Africa 11–12 November Killarney Motor Racing Complex, Cape Town Supercar Sweden Johan Kristoffersson Sweden PSRX Volkswagen Sweden Report
RX2 France Cyril Raymond Sweden Olsbergs MSE

Entries

The permanent entrants of the 2017 Supercar season
Petter Solberg moved across to PSRX Volkswagen Sweden, partnering with team owners Tommy and Johan Kristoffersson
Reinis Nitišs (foreground) moved to EKS, while "Csucsu" made his WorldRX debut
Manfred Stohl split with World RX Team Austria (foreground) and entered his own team, STARD (background)

Supercar

Permanent Entries
Constructor Entrant Car No. Driver Rounds
Audi Sweden EKS RX[2] Audi S1 1 Sweden Mattias Ekström 1-6, 8-12
15 Latvia Reinis Nitišs All
45 Sweden Per-Gunnar Andersson[3] 7
51 Switzerland Nico Müller[4] 9-10
57 Finland Toomas Heikkinen All
Ford United States Hoonigan Racing Division[5] Ford Focus RS 13 Norway Andreas Bakkerud All
43 United States Ken Block All
Finland GRX[6] Ford Fiesta 68 Finland Niclas Grönholm All
Austria MJP Racing Team Austria[7] 44 Germany Timo Scheider 1-4, 6-12
96 Sweden Kevin Eriksson All
United Kingdom MJP Pirtek Racing 177 United Kingdom Andrew Jordan[8] 5
Austria STARD[9] 6 Latvia Jānis Baumanis All
7 Russia Timur Timerzyanov All
Kia Hungary Speedy Motorsport[10] Kia Rio 10 Hungary "Csucsu" All
Peugeot France DA Racing[11] Peugeot 208 15 France Davy Jeanney[12] 11
66 France Grégoire Demoustier 1-2, 4-5, 8-9, 12
67 Belgium François Duval[13] 10
87 France Jean-Baptiste Dubourg 1-9, 12
Sweden Team Peugeot-Hansen[14] 9 France Sébastien Loeb All
21 Sweden Timmy Hansen All
71 Sweden Kevin Hansen All
Volkswagen United Kingdom LOCO World RX Team[15] Volkswagen Polo 58 United Kingdom Alister McRae[16] 9
100 United Kingdom Guy Wilks 1-8
Sweden PSRX Volkswagen Sweden[17] Volkswagen Polo GTI 3 Sweden Johan Kristoffersson All
11 Norway Petter Solberg All
94 Germany Dieter Depping[18] 11

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

RX2 International Series

Permanent Entries
Entrant No. Driver Rounds
Sweden A. Berggrens Bilservice Floby 58 Sweden Santosh Berggren 1,4
Sweden Anders Michalak 12 Sweden Anders Michalak All
Norway Bard Holmen 56 Norway Thomas Holmen All
Norway Ben-Philip Gundersen 2 Norway Ben-Philip Gundersen 4
Norway BPG Motorsport 43 Norway Tony Sormbroen 3
Norway Glenn Haug 9 Norway Glenn Haug All
Belgium Guillaume De Ridder 96 Belgium Guillaume De Ridder All
Sweden Hampus Rådström 17 Sweden Hampus Rådström 4
Sweden Helmia Motorsport 91 Sweden Jonathan Walfridsson 3-4
Sweden JC Raceteknik 6 Sweden William Nilsson 4-7
21 Sweden Marcus Höglund 3-4
66 Sweden William Nilsson 1-3
69 Norway Sondre Evjen All
Sweden Linus Östlund 18 Sweden Linus Östlund 4
Sweden Olsbergs MSE 11 United States Tanner Whitten All
13 France Cyril Raymond All
19 Sweden Andreas Bäckman All
26 Sweden Jessica Bäckman All
33 Kenya Tejas Hirani 1
36 France Guerlain Chicherit 5, 7
53 United States Cole Keatts 5
Sweden Sandra Hultgren 51 Sweden Sandra Hultgren 1-6
Finland Set Promotion 8 Norway Simon Wågø Syversen All
Sweden Simon Olofsson 52 Sweden Simon Olofsson All
Latvia Sports Racing Technologies 55 Latvia Vasily Gryazin All
Norway Stein Frederic Akre 98 Norway Stein Frederic Akre 3-4, 7
United Kingdom Team Färén 40 United Kingdom Dan Rooke All

Championship Standings

FIA World Rallycross Championship for Drivers

(key)

Pos. Driver BAR
Spain 		POR
Portugal 		HOC
Germany 		BEL
Belgium 		GBR
United Kingdom 		NOR
Norway 		SWE
Sweden 		CAN
Canada 		FRA
France 		LAT
Latvia 		GER
Germany 		RSA
South Africa 		Points
1 Sweden Johan Kristoffersson 6 3 2 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 7 1 316
2 Sweden Mattias Ekström 1 1 1 4 5 4 7 3 2 1 3 255
3 Norway Petter Solberg 4 6 4 3 1 7 7 2 5 7 4 4 252
4 France Sébastien Loeb 14 2 5 7 4 3 3 3 2 3 11 10 214
5 Sweden Timmy Hansen 5 4a 3 2 6 5 4 6 6 9h 2 2 201
6 Norway Andreas Bakkerud 3 10 14 6 3 2 2 13 4 4 8 7 194
7 Finland Toomas Heikkinen 8 12 6 9 12 11 14 5 11 8 3 11 125
8 Sweden Kevin Hansen 11 8 8 21 13 9 13 10 8 10 6 6 115
9 United States Ken Block 9 11 11 8 7 8 9 9 7f 14 14 8 112
10 Germany Timo Scheider 2 15 7 11 12 10 12 9 15 15 5 109
11 Sweden Kevin Eriksson 13 14 10 5 9 13 5 4 16 18 10 12 101
12 Latvia Jānis Baumanis 15 7 15 16 10 14 6 8 10 5 9 9 98
13 Russia Timur Timerzyanov 20 9 9 10 11 6 11 11 15 13 17 13 78
14 Latvia Reinis Nitišs 10 5 12 13 16 10 18 16 12 11 12 18 71
15 United Kingdom Guy Wilks 7 16 19 14 14 17 20 15 21
16 France Jean-Baptiste Dubourg 12 17 17 18 18 15 16 17 13 14 17
17 Switzerland Nico Müller 17 6 13
18 Sweden Sebastian Eriksson 12 13 12
19 United Kingdom Andrew Jordan 8 11
20 Finland Niclas Grönholm 17 13 16 12 15 16 8 14e 14 12i 5j 15k 4
21 Sweden Robin Larsson 13 4
22 Belgium François Duval 15 20 2
23 Sweden Per-Gunnar Andersson 15 2
24 Sweden Oliver Eriksson 17 16 1
25 France "Knapick" 18 21 21 20 16 1
26 Germany Dieter Depping 16 1
27 Germany René Münnich 18 20 17 18 19 17 0
28 Poland Martin Kaczmarski 19 18 19 22 22 0
29 Belgium "M.D.K." 17 24 0
30 France Davy Jeanney 18 0
31 France Gaëtan Sérazin 18 0
32 France Guerlain Chicherit 21 21 20 19 19 0
33 France Laurent Bouliou 20 21 0
34 Republic of Ireland Oliver O'Donovan 20 0
35 South Africa Mark Cronje 20 0
36 Germany Andreas Steffen 21 0
37 South Africa Ashley Haigh-Smith 21 0
38 Portugal Joaquim Santos 22 0
39 United Kingdom Oliver Bennett 23 0
40 Hungary Tamás Kárai 23 0
41 United Kingdom Alister McRae 24 0
42 Hungary "Csucsu" 16 20 22 24c 21 22 22 19 22 17 20 -9
43 Finland Joni-Pekka Rajala 18 19d 19 -10
44 France Grégoire Demoustier 19 21b 22 19 20 23 19 -10
45 France Emmanuel Anne 25g -10
Pos. Driver BAR
Spain 		POR
Portugal 		HOC
Germany 		BEL
Belgium 		GBR
United Kingdom 		NOR
Norway 		SWE
Sweden 		CAN
Canada 		FRA
France 		LAT
Latvia 		GER
Germany 		RSA
South Africa 		Points

a Ten championship points deducted for use of an unregistered tyre in Q3.[25]
b Ten championship points deducted for sealing an additional turbo after scrutineering.[25]
c Ten championship points deducted for sealing an additional turbo after scrutineering.[26]
d Ten championship points deducted for use of a third turbocharger in the competition.[27]
e Fifteen championship points deducted for use of a fourth engine seal.[28]
f Five championship points deducted for receiving his third reprimand in the championship.[29]
g Ten championship points deducted for presenting a turbocharger for sealing after initial scrutineering.[29]
h Fifteen championship points deducted for use of a fourth engine in the championship.[30]
i Ten championship points deducted for use of a new turbo seal after initial scrutineering.[30]
j Fifteen championship points deducted for use of more than three engine seals in the season.[31]
k Ten championship points deducted for use of a seventh turbocharger in the season.[32]

FIA World Rallycross Championship for Teams

Pos. Team No. Drivers Points
1 Sweden PSRX Volkswagen Sweden 3 Sweden Johan Kristoffersson 544
11 Norway Petter Solberg
94 Germany Dieter Depping
2 Sweden Team Peugeot-Hansen 9 France Sébastien Loeb 415
21 Sweden Timmy Hansen
3 Sweden EKS RX 1 Sweden Mattias Ekström 380
15 Latvia Reinis Nitišs
57 Finland Toomas Heikkinen
4 United States Hoonigan Racing Division 13 Norway Andreas Bakkerud 306
43 United States Ken Block
5 Austria MJP Racing Team Austria 44 Germany Timo Scheider 221
96 Sweden Kevin Eriksson
177 United Kingdom Andrew Jordan
6 Austria STARD 6 Latvia Jānis Baumanis 176
7 Russia Timur Timerzyanov

RX2 International Series

(key)

Pos. Driver BEL
Belgium 		GBR
United Kingdom 		NOR
Norway 		SWE
Sweden 		CAN
Canada 		FRA
France 		RSA
South Africa 		Points
1 France Cyril Raymond 1 1 1 6 1 1 1 198
2 United Kingdom Dan Rooke 2 2 3 1 6 9 5 154
3 Belgium Guillaume De Ridder 9 4 8 2 2 2 6 138
4 United States Tanner Whitten 3 7 2 16 3 15 3 105
5 Sweden William Nilsson 10 5 7 3 8 7 10 98
6 Sweden Simon Olofsson 5 6 9 11 5 8 7 98
7 Latvia Vasily Gryazin 7 10 12 19 4 3 4 94
8 Norway Sondre Evjen 6 9 6 14 7 11 2 93
9 Norway Glenn Haug 4 8 4 12 13 10 15 76
10 Sweden Andreas Bäckman 15 14 5 4 9 12 8 69
11 Norway Thomas Holmen 11 3 18 8 14 6 9 67
12 Norway Simon Wågø Syversen 17 12 11 7 16 4 13 47
13 Sweden Anders Michalak 8 11 16 13 17 5 11 45
14 Norway Stein Frederic Akre 19 5 14 22
15 Sweden Jessica Bäckman 16 13 14 22 10 14 16 21
16 Sweden Sandra Hultgren 14 15 15 17 11 13 19
17 Sweden Marcus Höglund 10 9 18
18 Sweden Linus Östlund 10 10
19 Kenya Tejas Hirani 12 8
20 France Guerlain Chicherit 15 12 8
21 United States Cole Keatts 12 7
22 Sweden Santosh Berggren 13 21 4
23 Norway Tony Sormbroen 13 4
24 Norway Ben-Philip Gundersen 15 2
25 Sweden Jonathan Walfridsson 17 18 0
26 Sweden Hampus Rådström 20 0

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