The 2019 FIA World Rallycross Championship presented by Monster Energy was the sixth season of the

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, an

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championship recognised by the

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(FIA) as the highest class of international rallycross.

Timmy Hansen Kenneth Timmy Hansen (born 21 May 1992) is a rallycross driver from Sweden. He won the 2019 FIA World Rallycross Championship in the FIA World Rallycross Championship, driving for Team Peugeot-Hansen. His father is the 14-times European Rallyc ...

won the Drivers' Championship on

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after finishing with the same number of points as

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 ...

, winning based on his four event wins to Bakkerud's one. Team Hansen MJP won the Teams' Championship.

Calendar

The 2019 championship was contested over ten rounds in

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, the

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and North America. The following events are scheduled to take place as part of the 2019 championship:

Calendar changes

*The calendar was trimmed from twelve rounds to ten with the removal of the

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and the

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from the schedule. *A new round, the World RX of Abu Dhabi, was added as the opening round of the championship. *The

World RX of Belgium The World RX of Belgium was a Rallycross event held in Belgium for the FIA World Rallycross Championship. The event made its debut in the 2014 season, at the Circuit Jules Tacheny Mettet in the town of Mettet, Wallonia. From the 2019 season, the ...

moved from

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to Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps. *The

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will be a joint event with the

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for the second consecutive time, and it is also the only combined round on the schedule.

Entries

Supercar

RX2

Team changes

* Team Peugeot Total and

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all withdrew from the championship after the 2018 season. * Monster Energy RX Cartel joined the championship, fielding two Audi S1s. *

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will run a second team, GCK Academy, comprising two

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s. * EKS Sport lost its factory backing from

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and reduced from two cars to one. * ES Motorsport-Labas GAS entered the championship running a single

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Driver changes

* Following the withdrawal of their respective teams, reigning World Champion Johan Kristoffersson,

Petter Solberg Petter Solberg (born 18 November 1974) is a Norwegian former professional rally and rallycross driver. Solberg debuted in the World Rally Championship in 1998 and was signed by the Ford factory team in 1999. The following year, Solberg started ...

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and Robin Larsson all left the Championship. *

and

Liam Doran Liam Doran (born 22 March 1987) is a British professional rallycross driver competing in the FIA World Rallycross Championship, Global RallyCross Championship, X Games, and European Rallycross Championship. He is the son of British rallycros ...

left EKS Audi Sport and

respectively to join Monster Energy RX Cartel. * Guillaume De Ridder and Cyril Raymond moved up from RX2 and ERX respectively with GCK Academy. * Krisztián Szabó moved up from ERX with EKS Sport. * 2018 European Rallycross Super1600 champion, Rokas Baciuška, joined the championship with ES Motorsport-Labas GAS but he was forced to cut relationship with the team so he only did do the two first rounds of the season.

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 Loss of 15 championship points – stewards' decision
^b Loss of 10 championship points – stewards' decision

FIA World Rallycross Championship for Teams

¹ – Team STARD ran two different specifications of car at rounds 1–3 and therefore were ineligible to score teams points at these events.

RX2 International Series Drivers' Championship

References

External links

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Official FIA World Rallycross of Great Britain
{{World championships in 2019 World Rallycross Championship seasons

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