2019 FIA World Rallycross Championship

Calendar changes

• The calendar was trimmed from twelve rounds to ten with the removal of the World RX of Portugal, World RX of the United States and the World RX of Germany from the schedule.^[1][2]
• A new round, the World RX of Abu Dhabi, was added as the opening round of the championship.^[1]
• The World RX of Belgium moved from Circuit Jules Tacheny Mettet to Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps.^[1]
• The World RX of Canada will be a joint event with the Americas Rallycross Championship for the second consecutive time, and it is also the only combined round on the schedule.

Supercar

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Constructor	Entrant	Car	No.	Drivers	Rounds
Audi	Kárai Motorsport Egyesület	Audi A1	73	Tamás Kárai	2
	Monster Energy RX Cartel[3]	Audi S1	13	Andreas Bakkerud[3]	All
			33	Liam Doran[3]	All
	Team JC Raceteknik		39	Enzo Ide	3
			4	Robin Larsson	9
	EKS Audi Sport		40	Mattias Ekström	3
	EKS Sport[4]		123	Krisztián Szabó[4]	All
Citroën	"Knapick"	Citroën DS3	84	Hervé "Knapick" Lemonnier	2–4, 8
Ford	Christopher Hoy	Ford Fiesta MK7	41	Christopher Hoy	2
	Team STARD[5]		5	Pål Try[6]	1, 3
			3	Jani Paasonen[7]	2
		Ford Fiesta MK8			4–5, 7–8
			22	Jere Kalliokoski[7]	6, 10
			5	Pål Try	9
			6	Jānis Baumanis[5]	All
	Olsbergs MSE		93	Sebastian Eriksson	6
			196	Kevin Eriksson	6
Honda		Honda Civic Coupé	72	Ulrik Linnemann	6
Hyundai	GRX Taneco Team[8]	Hyundai i20	7	Timur Timerzyanov[8]	All
			31	Joni Wiman	3–4
			68	Niclas Grönholm[8]	1–2, 5–10
	GRX Set[8]		15	Reinis Nitišs[8]	1, 6, 9
			57	Toomas Heikkinen	8
Mini	Xite Racing[9]	Mini Cooper	42	Oliver Bennett[9]	All
Peugeot	Team Hansen MJP[10]	Peugeot 208	21	Timmy Hansen[10]	All
			71	Kevin Hansen[10]	All
	Grégoire Demoustier		66	Grégoire Demoustier	3
	Mark Higgins		134	Mark Higgins	4
	Jonathan Pailler		18	Jonathan Pailler	6, 8
	Fabien Pailler		20	Fabien Pailler	6, 8
Renault	GC Kompetition[11]	Renault Mégane R.S.	14	Rokas Baciuška	7-9
			36	Guerlain Chicherit[11]	All
			92	Anton Marklund[11]	All
	GCK Academy[11]	Renault Clio R.S.	96	Guillaume De Ridder[11]	All
			113	Cyril Raymond[11]	All
		Renault Mégane R.S.	14	Rokas Baciuška	5–6
SEAT	All-Inkl.com Münnich Motorsport[12]	SEAT Ibiza	44	Timo Scheider[12]	All
Škoda	ES Motorsport-Labas GAS[13]	Škoda Fabia	14	Rokas Baciuška[13]	1–2
			24	Kevin Abbring	5–6
			67	François Duval	3
			12	Matvey Furazhkin	8-10
Volkswagen	Hedströms Motorsport	Volkswagen Polo	64	Kjetil Larsen	6
	Bridgestone Motorsport		95	Philip Gehrman	6

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RX2

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Constructor	Entrant	Car	No.	Drivers	Rounds
OMSE	JC Raceteknik[14]	Olsbergs MSE RX2	2	Ben-Philip Gundersen[14]	All
			6	William Nilsson[15]	1-3
			90	Jimmie Walfridson[16]	1–2, 4-5
			54	Petter Nårsa	6-7
	Morten Asklund		11	Morten Asklund	4-5
	Anders Michalak[17]		12	Anders Michalak[17]	All
	Olsbergs MSE[18]		16	Oliver Eriksson[18]	All
			18	Linus Östlund	5, 7
			35	Fraser McConnell[19]	All
			47	Jesse Kallio[20]	All
			91	Niklas Aneklev	7
	Team Färén[21]		21	Damien Meunier[21]	1–2, 6
			99	Marcus Höglund	4-5
			6	William Nilsson	6
			31	Yann Le Jossec	6
	Set Promotion		22	Sami-Matti Trogen	All
			65	Jami Kalliomäki	5
	Petter Leirhol		27	Petter Leirhol	4-5
	Lars Erik Haug		33	Lars Erik Haug	5
	Simon Olofsson[22]		52	Simon Olofsson[22]	All
	Sport Racing Technologies[23]		55	Vasiliy Gryazin[23]	All
			69	Nikolay Gryazin	6
	Martin Enlund		60	Martin Enlund	5
	Albert Llovera[24]		66	Albert Llovera[24]	1-6
	Steve Volders[25]		77	Steve Volders[25]	All
	Stein Fredric Akre		98	Stein Fredric Akre	5
	William Nilsson		6	William Nilsson	5
	Mats Oskarsson		111	Mats Oskarsson	5
	Iane Vacala		50	Iane Vacala	6-7

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Team changes

• Team Peugeot Total and PSRX Volkswagen Sweden all withdrew from the championship after the 2018 season.^[26][27][28]
• Monster Energy RX Cartel joined the championship, fielding two Audi S1s.^[3]
• GC Kompetition will run a second team, GCK Academy, comprising two Renault Clios.^[11]
• EKS Sport lost its factory backing from Audi and reduced from two cars to one.
• ES Motorsport-Labas GAS entered the championship running a single Škoda Fabia.

Driver changes

• Following the withdrawal of their respective teams, reigning World Champion Johan Kristoffersson, Petter Solberg, Sébastien Loeb and Robin Larsson all left the Championship.
• Andreas Bakkerud and Liam Doran left EKS Audi Sport and GC Kompetition 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.

FIA World Rallycross Championship for Drivers

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Pos. Driver ABU BAR BEL GBR NOR SWE CAN FRA LAT RSA Points 1 Timmy Hansen 13 1 4 1 6 6 13 1 1 4 211 2 Andreas Bakkerud 15 3 2 2 8 7 1 5 3 2 211 3 Kevin Hansen 1 2 8 7 2 2 6 3 4 5 199 4 Niclas Grönholm 2 4 1 5 7 6 2 1 186 5 Timur Timerzyanov 8 7 1 11 7 24 3 12 5 3 142 6 Jānis Baumanis 5 6 5 10 3 10 2 10 12 8 137 7 Anton Marklund 7 14 7 3 DSQ 8 5 2 9 11 119 8 Liam Doran 3 10 6 6 5 15 8 9 6 16a 114 9 Timo Scheider 6 12 9 4 9 23 10 8 11 6 109 10 Krisztián Szabó 4 8 11 5 12 17 12 11 10 9 91 11 Rokas Baciuška 9 13 16 9 9 4 7 76 12 Guerlain Chicherit 10 9 13 9 11 14 4 13 15 7 73 13 Cyril Raymond 12 5 12 13 10 20 11 15a 13 15 45 14 Reinis Nitišs 13 3 8 40 15 Joni Wiman 3 8 39 16 Kevin Abbring 4 4 35 17 Sebastian Eriksson 1 29 18 Guillaume De Ridder 16 11 15 16 15 19 14 16 14 10 29 19 Toomas Heikkinen 7 15 20 Oliver Bennett 17 17 14 12 14 22 15 19 16 12 12b 21 Jere Kalliokoski 12 14 10 22 Jani Paasonen 16 14 13 16 17 9 23 Mattias Ekström 10 8 24 Kevin Eriksson 11 8 25 Matvey Furazhkin 20 17 13 4 26 Jonathan Pailler 13 18 4 27 Pål Try 14 16 18 4 28 Fabien Pailler 16 14 4 29 Mark Higgins 15 2 30 Christopher Hoy 15 2 31 François Duval 17 0 32 Kjetil Larsen 18 0 33 Enzo Ide 18 0 34 Robin Larsson 19 0 35 Gregoire Demoustier 19 0 36 Philip Gehrman 21 0 37 Ulrik Linnemann 25 0 38 Tamás Kárai 18 0 39 Hervé "Knapick" 19 20 17 21a -15 Pos. Driver ABU BAR BEL GBR NOR SWE CAN FRA LAT RSA Points

Colour Result Gold Winner Silver Second place Bronze Third place Green Points classification Blue Non-points classification Non-classified finish (NC) Purple Retired, not classified (Ret) Red Did not qualify (DNQ) Did not pre-qualify (DNPQ) Black Disqualified (DSQ) White Did not start (DNS) Withdrew (WD) Race cancelled (C) Blank Did not practice (DNP) Did not arrive (DNA) Excluded (EX)

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

FIA World Rallycross Championship for Teams

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Pos.	Team	No.	Drivers	Points
1	Team Hansen MJP	21	Timmy Hansen	410
		71	Kevin Hansen
2	GRX Taneco Team	7	Timur Timerzyanov	367
		31	Joni Wiman
		68	Niclas Grönholm
3	Monster Energy RX Cartel	13	Andreas Bakkerud	325
		33	Liam Doran
4	GC Kompetition	36	Guerlain Chicherit	192
		92	Anton Marklund
5	Team STARD1	3	Jani Paasonen	103
		5	Pål Try
		6	Jānis Baumanis
		22	Jere Kalliokoski
6	GCK Academy	96	Guillaume De Ridder	74
		113	Cyril Raymond

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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

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Pos.	Driver	BAR	BEL	GBR	NOR	SWE	FRA	RSA	Points
1	Oliver Eriksson	1	1	1	1	11	2	1	193
2	Ben-Philip Gundersen	13	3	5	2	1	1	6	150
3	Jesse Kallio	3	2	2	3	3	6	13	146
4	Fraser McConnell	2	5	7	6	5	4	2	143
5	Sami-Matti Trogen	4	4	4	11	4	3	3	124
6	Vasiliy Gryazin	5	7	3	13	6	5	4	112
7	Simon Olofsson	8	8	10	7	10	13	8	68
8	Anders Michalak	7	9	6	10	13	11	7	64
9	Steven Volders	9	12	9	5	17	9	10	60
10	William Nilsson	10	6	8		12	8		57
11	Linus Östlund					2		5	41
12	Jimmie Walfridson	11	10		8	9			39
13	Damien Meunier	6	11				10		32
14	Albert Llovera	12	13	11	14	21	14		23
15	Marcus Höglund				4	14			22
16	Petter Nårsa						12	9	20
17	Nikolay Gryazin						7		13
18	Martin Enlund					7			13
19	Mats Oskarsson					8			12
20	Niklas Aneklev							11	9
21	Morten Asklund				9	19			8
22	Petter Leirhol				12	18			8
23	Lane Vacala						15	12	2
24	Jami Kalliomäki					15			2
25	Yann Le Jossec						16		1
26	Stein Fredric Akre					16			1
27	Lars Erik Haug					20			0
Pos.	Driver	BAR	BEL	GBR	NOR	SWE	FRA	RSA	Points

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