The 2023 FIA World Rallycross Championship was the tenth season of the FIA World Rallycross Championship, an

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championship recognized 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 his sixth drivers championship at round 9 in

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entered as the reigning teams champions.

Calendar

On 7 December 2022, the provisional 2023 calendar was announced during the FIA World Motorsport Council decisions. A calendar update was issued on 3 March 2023. On 21 March, the World RX of Hong Kong, China was announced as the season finale. The event hosted in

will mark the first ever championship round in the Asia-Pacific region.

Series News

* After having trialed a new weekend format in

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, the format was adjusted again for the 2023 season. The weekend structure was reverted to a system of four heats of five cars (reduced to three heats at double-header events), with two semis and a final with six cars each using a staggered grid. Free practice replaced the shakedown as the first session of the weekend. SuperPole was retained from the 2022 season. Heat 2 will have the fastest drivers from heat 1 going first, whereas heat 3 and 4 will have the slowest drivers from the previous heat going first. At the end of the heats, the top 3 drivers in the heat ranking will be given championship points; 3 to the winner of the heat rankings, 2 to second, and 1 to third. After the final, championship points are awarded to the top 15 drivers across the whole weekend.

Incidents

* On 21 July 2023, at the Lydden Hill Race Circuit in

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, Special ONE Racing's garage was completely destroyed in a fire. Both of the team's Lancia Delta Evo-e RX electric cars were completely destroyed. No one was injured in the fire. For this reason, the World RX of United Kingdom was subsequently cancelled for the RX1e class while a cause was being investigated. Special ONE Racing pulled out of the final six rounds of the season as a result of the incident. * On 31 July 2023, the

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was also cancelled for the RX1e class since investigations were still ongoing as to what the cause of the Lydden Hill fire was. Subsequently,

, Ole Christian Veiby, Timmy Hansen and Kevin Hansen were all confirmed to take part in the RX2e class at the event instead. * On 1 September 2023, it was announced that the final four rounds of the season in

and

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would go ahead with the RX1e class drivers competing in the ZEROID X1 car used in the RX2e class. The RX2e season finished at the event before in

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Entries

RX1e

RX2e

Championship standings

Bonus points are awarded for finishing in the top 3 of the heat ranking. Points are scored as follows:

RX1e Driver's Championship

RX1e Team's Championship

Notes

References

External links

* {{World championships in 2023 World Rallycross Championship seasons World Rallycross