The 2018 FIA World Rallycross Championship presented by

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was the fifth season of the

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championship recognised by the

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(FIA) as the highest class of international rallycross.

Johan Kristoffersson Johan David Kristoffersson (born 6 December 1988) is a Swedish racecar driver. He is a five time World Champion having won the FIA World Rallycross Championship in 2017, 2018, 2020, 2021 and 2022. In 2018 he won a record breaking 11 out of 12 eve ...

won the Drivers' Championship for the second season running during the World RX of the United States.

Calendar

The 2018 championship was contested over twelve rounds in

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and

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Calendar changes

* The championship will expand to include a round in the

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for the first time, with the

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scheduled to host the event in conjunction with the

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. * The

World RX of Great Britain The World RX of Great Britain is a Rallycross event held in the United Kingdom for the FIA World Rallycross Championship. The event made its debut in the 2014 season, at the Lydden Hill Race Circuit in the village of Wootton, Kent near Dover. Fr ...

event will relocate from

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to a new venue at the

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. * The Hockenheim round of the championship was discontinued to accommodate the new American round. *The

World RX of Canada The World RX of Canada is a Rallycross event held in Canada for the FIA World Rallycross Championship. The event made its debut in the 2014 season, at the Circuit Trois-Rivières in the town of Trois-Rivières, Quebec. Past winners Refere ...

also shares an event with the

Entries

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Supercar

Drivers with a green background are ineligible to score points towards the Championship for Teams. * — Despite having been born in

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Grégoire Demoustier Grégoire Demoustier (born 26 January 1991 in Villeneuve-d'Ascq) is a French racing driver, who competes in the World Touring Car Championship for Sébastien Loeb Racing. Career Demoustier began his career in 2008, competing in the THP Spider Cup ...

is recognised by the

as a Belgian driver for the duration of the 2018 season.

RX2

² Despite having been born in

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Albert Llovera Albert Llovera Massana (born 11 September 1966) is a rally driver and former alpine skier from Andorra. He became the youngest athlete to compete in the Winter Olympics in 1984 at the age of 17. A serious accident in 1985 left him paralysed from t ...

is recognised by the RX2 International Series and by extension, the

as a Spanish driver for the duration of the 2018 season.

Team changes

Hoonigan Racing Division The Hoonigan Racing Division is a motor racing team that competes in the American Rally Association fielding a Hyundai i20 Coupe WRC car for Ken Block. The team previously competed in the World Rally Championship, Global RallyCross Championship, ...

withdrew from the series at the conclusion of the 2017 championship. *

Team Peugeot Total Team Peugeot Total is the factory team of French car manufacture Peugeot. The team competes in the Dakar Rally and the FIA World Rallycross Championship. Main victories The team won two Dakar Rally and one 24 Hours of Le Mans. Rally raid cars ...

will step up their involvement in World RX, running as a full factory team in 2018, as compared to the family-based

Hansen Motorsport Hansen Motorsport (officially ''Kenneth Hansen Motorsport AB''), which competed under the title Team Peugeot-Hansen as Peugeot's official partner in the motorsport of rallycross, is an auto racing team founded by Swedish racing driver Kenneth H ...

-run cars in 2017. *

Olsbergs MSE Olsbergs MSE, which also competes under the title OMSE, is an auto racing team founded by Swedish former rally champion Andréas Eriksson as Motorsport Evolution (MSE) in 2005. In 2008 it ran under the name ''Ford Team RS Europe'', while in 2009 ...

returned to World RX full-time in 2018 after competing part-time in 2017. They will debut their new-specification 2018

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MK8 Supercars, built in collaboration with

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in Barcelona. *

GC Kompetition GCK Motorsport, formally known as GC Kompetition, is a subsidiary of Green Corp Konnection (GCK) and a French motorsport team founded by freeriding ski champion, rally driver and stunt driver Guerlain Chicherit in 2017. GCK made its debut in th ...

(GCK) will make their World RX debut as a team entry. Team owner and driver

Guerlain Chicherit Guerlain Chicherit (born 20 May 1978 in Paris) is a French rally and rallycross driver, and a professional skier who was four times world champion in freeriding (1999, 2002, 2006 and 2007). Biography He made his professional motorsport debut in ...

oversaw the development of the new Renault Mégane R.S. RX, which was built in collaboration with

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. * GRX Taneco will enter the championship, using a pair of ex-

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Hyundai i20 WRC The Hyundai i20 WRC is a World Rally Car built by Hyundai for use from the 2014 World Rally Championship. It is based on the Hyundai i20 subcompact car, and was unveiled at the 2012 Paris Motor Show. The launch of the i20 marks Hyundai's return t ...

cars built to rallycross specifications by Set Promotion. Double world rally champion

Marcus Grönholm Marcus Ulf Johan Grönholm (born February 5, 1968) is a Finnish former rally and rallycross driver, being part of a family of the Swedish-speaking population of Finland lineage. His son, Niclas Grönholm, is an upcoming FIA World Rallycross Champ ...

will be the team's principal. *

Sébastien Loeb Racing Sébastien Loeb Racing is a French racing team, founded by rally and racing driver Sébastien Loeb. It currently competes in the World Rallycross Championship, World Touring Car Cup, Porsche Carrera Cup France, and 208 Rally Cup. The team used t ...

will enter the championship with a single

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WRX run for

Driver changes

Andreas Bakkerud Andreas Bakkerud (born 10 October 1991) is a rallycross driver from Bergen, Norway. He has competed in the FIA Rallycross Supercar class since 2013 in both Euro RX and World RX, and Nitro Rallycross since 2021. He became European Champion in 2021 ...

left Hoonigan Racing Division to join

EKS RX EKS RX is a Swedish auto racing team founded by racing driver Mattias Ekström. The team is competing in FIA World Rallycross Championship since 2014 and entered the team championship in 2015. In January 2017 it was announced that the team woul ...

. *

Toomas Heikkinen Toomas "Topi" Heikkinen (born 27 March 1991) is a rallycross and ice-racing driver from Finland. He won the Finnish Rallycross Championship in 2010 and the Global Rallycross Championship in 2013. He currently competes in the FIA World Rallycross ...

and

Reinis Nitišs Reinis Nitišs (born 16 December 1995) is a rallycross driver from Jēkabpils, Latvia. He is the winner of the Super1600 division in the European Rallycross Championship in 2013 and is the youngest event winner in FIA World Rallycross Championshi ...

both left EKS RX. Nitišs will instead re-join Set Promotion, the team in which he won the Super1600 championship with in 2013, and compete in the FIA European Rallycross Championship with an M-Sport Ford Fiesta. Heikkinen also joined the team, but stepped down from driving duties, becoming Nitišs’ team manager and a driving coach for Set Promotion's Super1600 drivers. * After spending a year with

MJP Racing Team Austria MJP Racing Team Austria is an auto racing team founded by Austrian racing driver and entrepreneur Max Pucher. The team has been competing in rallycross since its creation. The team uses Supercar specification Ford Fiesta The Ford Fiesta is ...

in 2017,

Kevin Eriksson Kevin Eriksson (born July 16, 1996) is a Swedish racing driver currently participating in the FIA World Rallycross Championship. He is the son of Olsbergs MSE team owner Andréas Eriksson. In 2016, he made his debut in FIA RX Supercar with a full ...

returned to his father's Olsbergs MSE team alongside fellow countryman

Robin Larsson Robin Christian Zacharias Larsson is a Swedish racing driver currently participating in the FIA European Rallycross Championship FIA is the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (English: International Automobile Federation), the world's go ...

, who will make his return to World RX after a year sabbatical. *

Jérôme Grosset-Janin Jérôme Grosset-Janin (born 19 June 1984) is a French rallycross driver from Sallanches, Haute-Savoie. Biography Grosset-Janin began his motorsport career in ice racing in 2003, and competed in the 2005 Andros Trophy, where he secured 14 podi ...

will partner team owner and driver Guerlain Chicherit, driving for the new GCK team. * Double European Rallycross champion

Timur Timerzyanov Timur Renatovich Timerzyanov (russian: Тиму́р Рена́тович Тимерзя́нов; born 31 January 1987) is a Russian rallycross driver, currently competing in the FIA World Rallycross Championship. He has won the European Rallycros ...

left STARD to join GRX Taneco, partnering

Niclas Grönholm Niclas Grönholm (born 29 May 1996) is a Finnish racing driver currently participating in the FIA World Rallycross Championship racing for GRX-SET World RX Team. He is the son of two time World Rally Champion Marcus Grönholm. Racing record C ...

in the new Hyundai i20.

Results and standings

World Championship points are scored as follows: *A red background denotes drivers who did not advance from the round

FIA World Rallycross Championship for Drivers

^a Ekström received no points from the final as he was disqualified after crashing into Solberg.
^b Loss of fifteen championship points – stewards' decision
^c Loss of ten championship points – stewards' decision

FIA World Rallycross Championship for Teams

RX2 International Series

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References

External links

* {{World championships in 2018 World Rallycross Championship seasons

World Rallycross Championship The FIA World Rallycross Championship (official abbreviation is World RX) is a rallycross series organised by the FIA in conjunction with series promoter Rallycross Promoter GmbH (founded by Red Bull and KW25). From the inaugural season in 2014 ...