2018 Americas Rallycross Championship Explained

The 2018 Americas Rallycross Championship is the first season of the Americas Rallycross Championship, a feeder championship to the FIA World Rallycross Championship representing North America. This championship can be seen as the spiritual successor to the Red Bull Global Rallycross Championship, which folded in early 2018.^[1] The season consists of four rounds across two categories; Supercar and ARX2. The season commenced on 27 May with the special round at Silverstone in the UK, and culminated on 30 September in Austin at the Circuit of the Americas.

Calendar

	Event	Dates	Venue	Class	Winner	Team	Report
1		27 May	Silverstone Circuit, Silverstone	Supercar	Tanner Foust	Volkswagen Andretti Rallycross	Report
2	Dirtfish ARX of COTA	14 July	Circuit of the Americas, Austin	Supercar	Scott Speed	Volkswagen Andretti Rallycross	Report
				ARX2	Conner Martell	Dirtfish
3	World RX of Canada	4–5 August	Circuit Trois-Rivières, Trois-Rivières	Supercar	Scott Speed	Volkswagen Andretti Rallycross	Report
				ARX2 (Day 1)	Conner Martell	Dirtfish
				ARX2 (Day 2)	Conner Martell	Dirtfish
4	World RX of the United States	30 September	Circuit of the Americas, Austin	Supercar			Report
				ARX2 (Day 1)	Alex Keyes	Robbie Buhl
				ARX2 (Day 2)	Alex Keyes	Robbie Buhl

Entries

Supercar

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Americas RX Teams
Constructor	Entrant	Car		Drivers	Rounds
BMW	Xite Racing	BMW MINI Cooper	42		2–4
Citroën	LD Motorsports	Citroën DS3	align=center rowspan=2	33	Liam Doran	align=center rowspan=2	1, 4
Renault	GC Kompetition	Renault Mégane R.S
Ford	Hoonigan Racing Division	Ford Focus RS RX	43	Ken Block	2–4
			100	Steve Arpin	2–4
Peugeot	Albatec Racing	Peugeot 208	26	Andy Scott	1
Renault	G-Fors	Renault Clio R.S.	121	Philippe Maloigne	1
SEAT	Münnich Motorsport	SEAT Ibiza	44	Timo Scheider	1
			align=center rowspan=2	77	René Münnich	1
Ford		Ford Fiesta	3
Subaru	Subaru Rally Team USA	Subaru Impreza WRX STi	18	Patrik Sandell	All
			55	Chris Atkinson	All
			75	David Higgins	1
			199	Travis Pastrana	2
			12	Jacques Villeneuve	3
			57	Toomas Heikkinen	4
Volkswagen	Volkswagen Andretti Rallycross	Volkswagen Beetle	34	Tanner Foust	All
			41	Scott Speed	All

ARX2

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ARX2 Teams
Constructor	Entrant	Car		Drivers	Rounds
OMSE	Dreyer & Reinbold Racing	Olsbergs MSE RX2	2		2–3
			3		All
			24		All
			44		All
	Robbie Buhl		4		All
	Dirtfish		21		All
			25		All
			35		All
			77		All
	Keatts Motorsport		53		All

Results and standings

Championship points are scored as follows:

	Position
Round	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	10th	11th	12th	13th	14th	15th	16th
Heats	16	15	14	13	12	11	10	9	8	7	6	5	4	3	2	1
Semi-Finals	6	5	4	3	2	1
Final	8	5	4	3	2	1

• A red background denotes drivers who did not advance from the round

Supercar

(key)

	Driver	GBR	USA1	CAN	USA2	Points
1	Scott Speed	2	1	1	2	112
2	Tanner Foust	1	3	2	1	107
3	Patrik Sandell	4	5	4	5	75
4	Ken Block		2	3	6	68
5	Chris Atkinson	8	6	5	7	66
6	Steve Arpin		7	6	3	54
7	Oliver Bennett		8	9	9	32
8	Liam Doran	3			8	30
9	René Münnich	7		7		29
10	Timo Scheider	5				21
11	Travis Pastrana		4			17
12	Toomas Heikkinen				4	17
13	David Higgins	6				16
14	Jacques Villeneuve			8		12
15	Andy Scott	9				10
16	Philippe Maloigne	10				9
	Driver	GBR	USA1	CAN	USA2	Points

ARX2

(key)

	Driver	USA1	CAN1	CAN2	USA2	USA3	Points
1	Conner Martell	1	1	1	2	6	131
2	Christian Brooks	2	2	2	5	3	114
3	Alex Keyes	5	8	3	1	1	110
4	Fraser McConnell	4	9	6	4	2	96
5	Scott Anderson	6	7	5	3	7	86
6	Cole Keatts	3	6	8	7	5	82
7	Matt Carpoff	8	10	7	8	9	60
8	Travis PeCoy	9	3	9^a	9	8	56
9	James Rimmer	7	5	4			54
10	Cabot Bigham		4	10^a	6	4	51
	Driver	USA1	CAN1	CAN2	USA2	USA3	Points

^a Did not finish the event and so got no points.

See also

• 2018 in rallycross

Notes and References

1. Web site: Global Rallycross Championship closes down ahead of 2018 season. Dominik. Wilde. Autosport.com.
2. Web site: ARX Americas Rallycross Results : Round 1 Silverstone. PDF. Chronomoto.hu. 4 August 2018.
3. Web site: ARX Americas Rallycross Results : Round 2 Austin, Texas. PDF. Chronomoto.hu. 4 August 2018.
4. Web site: ARX Americas Rallycross . www.chronomoto.hu.
5. Web site: ARX Americas Rallycross Results : Round 1 Austin, Texas. PDF. Chronomoto.hu. 4 August 2018.
6. Web site: ARX Americas RallyCross . www.chronomoto.hu.