2016_FIA_World_Rallycross_Championship_season
The 2016 FIA World Rallycross Championship presented by Monster Energy was the third season of the FIA World Rallycross Championship. The season consists of twelve rounds and started on 16 April with the Portuguese round at Montalegre. The season ended on 27 November, at Rosario, Santa Fe in Argentina.
Petter Solberg was the defending drivers' champion. Team Hansen-Peugeot were the defending teams' champions. After 11 rounds, Mattias Ekström clinched the Drivers Championship. His team EKS secured the teams championship at the final round in Argentina.
On 30 October 2015 the 2016 calendar was announced, removing the rounds in Italy and Turkey and adding an event in Latvia.[1] On 2 December 2015 the FIA World Motor Sport Council approved in Paris the 2016 FIA World Rallycross Championship calendar and confirmed the separation of European and World Rallycross heats during events.[2] The RX Lites category was held in support of the World Championship, which consisted of seven events and a non-championship round in Canada.
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¹ = A one-car team is ineligible to score teams' championship points.
² = Non-championship round.
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* Entries in grey denote one-car teams which are ineligible to score teams championship points.
1 = JRM has announced the termination of Liam Doran's contract with the team following the sixth round (Sweden) of the championship.[17]
2 = Nitišs left the Münnich Motorsport team following event eight (France) and returned to Olsbergs MSE for event nine (Barcelona).[18]
RX Lites
All teams used identical Olsbergs MSE-produced Ford Fiestas
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| Entries | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Entrant | No. | Driver | Rounds |
 Olsbergs MSE |
13 |  Cyril Raymond |
1-7 |
| 33 |  Tejas Hirani |
1-7 | |
| 64 |  Saeed Bintouq |
3-4, NC, 6 | |
| 75 |  Patrick Simon |
1 | |
| 40 |  Dan Rooke |
3 | |
| 21 | Marcus Hoglund |
5 | |
| 24 |  Mitchell DeJong |
NC | |
| 45 |  Miki Weckström |
NC | |
| 27 |  Andrew Ranger |
NC | |
| 51 | Sandra Hultgren |
NC | |
| 53 | Cole Keatts |
NC | |
| JC Raceteknik |
99 |  Joachim Hvaal |
1-7 |
| 16 | Thomas Bryntesson |
1-7 | |
| 69 | Sondre Evjen |
1-7 | |
| 96 | Henrik Krogstad |
4 | |
| 6 | William Nilsson |
5 | |
| 46 |  Martin Lapins |
7 | |
| 3 | Per Björnson |
5 | |
| 14 | Magnus Hansen |
5 | |
| 98 | Oliver Eriksson |
NC | |
| Santosh Motorsport |
86 | Santosh Berggren |
5 |
| Set Promotion |
8 | Simon Wago Syversen |
1-7 |
 Toksport |
18 | Ali Turkkan |
3 |
| Helmia Motorsport |
91 | Jonathan Walfridsson |
4-5 |
| Sport Racing Technologies |
55 |  Vasily Gryazin |
7 |
 Lotto Team |
66 |  Albert Llovera |
4-6 |
| Dirtfish Motorsports |
121 | Conner Martell |
NC, 7 |
 ICEPOL Racing Team |
26 | Regis Gosselin |
2 |
| Westlund Entreprenad |
47 | Alexander Westlund |
1-2, 5 |
| Simon Olofsson |
52 | Simon Olofsson |
1-7 |
| Thomas Holmen |
56 | Thomas Holmen |
4-7 |
| Johan Larsson |
2 | Johan Larsson |
5 |
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NC represents participation in the non-championship round in Canada.
FIA World Rallycross Championship for Drivers
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| Pos. | Driver | POR  |
HOC |
BEL |
GBR |
NOR |
SWE |
CAN |
FRA |
BAR  |
LAT |
GER |
ARG  |
Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mattias Ekström |
10 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 272 |
| 2 | Johan Kristoffersson |
6 | 7 | 6 | 12 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 240 |
| 3 | Andreas Bakkerud |
4 | 12 | 14 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 239 |
| 4 | Petter Solberg |
1 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 10 | 19 | 2 | 7 | 239 |
| 5 | Sébastien Loeb |
5 | 10 | 2 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 9 | 3 | 8 | 1 | 9 | 8 | 209 |
| 6 | Timmy Hansen |
12 | 18 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 11 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 13 | 178 |
| 7 | Toomas Heikkinen |
3 | 2 | 16 | 11 | 9 | 9 | 4 | 15 | 9 | 9 | 10 | 3 | 150 |
| 8 | Timur Timerzyanov |
16 | 17 | 8 | 5 | 6 | 14 | 7 | 30 | 3 | 6 | 14 | 9 | 117 |
| 9 | Robin Larsson |
2 | 6 | 13 | 15 | 10 | 8 | 16 | 12 | 5 | 12 | 13 | 6 | 109 |
| 10 | Jānis Baumanis |
14 | 8 | 9 | 7 | 8 | 10 | 15 | 26 | 4 | 8 | 7 | 12 | 109 |
| 11 | Kevin Eriksson |
7 | 11 | 10 | 8 | 13 | 15 | 11 | 11 | 13 | 1 | 16 | 92 | |
| 12 | Davy Jeanney |
8 | 9 | 11 | 13 | 11 | 12 | 7 | 12 | 10 | 11 | 86 | ||
| 13 | Anton Marklund |
9 | 15 | 4 | 9 | 15 | 4 | 6 | 18 | 14 | 15 | 15 | 11 | 76 |
| 14 | Ken Block |
18 | 3 | 19 | 14 | 14 | 13 | 10 | 6 | 16 | 16 | 12 | 15 | 63 |
| 15 | Kevin Hansen |
13 | 19 | 4 | 9 | 4 | 52 | |||||||
| 16 | Reinis Nitišs |
15 | 13 | 12 | 21 | 12 | 18 | 13 | 5 | 13 | 11 | 10 | 44 | |
| 17 | Niclas Grönholm |
17 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 16 | 11 | 12 | 14 | 15 | 18 | 19 | 28 | |
| 18 | Timo Scheider |
17 | 7 | 4 | 25 | |||||||||
| 19 | François Duval |
5 | 18 | |||||||||||
| 20 | Liam Doran |
10 | 5 | 17 | 19 | 17 | 16 | 9 | ||||||
| 21 | Andy Scott |
10 | 6 | |||||||||||
| 22 | Tommy Rustad |
13 | 25 | 4 | ||||||||||
| 23 | Guy Wilks |
17 | 19 | 14 | 3 | |||||||||
| 24 | Jean-Baptiste Dubourg |
16 | 17 | 1 | ||||||||||
| 25 | Peter Hedström |
16 | 1 | |||||||||||
| 26 | René Münnich |
19 | 20 | 18 | 18 | 18 | 19 | 14 | 16 | 18 | 22 | 24 | 14 | -3 |
| Pos. | Driver | POR |
HOC |
BEL |
GBR |
NOR |
SWE |
CAN |
FRA |
BAR |
LAT |
GER |
ARG |
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FIA World Rallycross Championship for Teams
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| Pos. | Team | No. | Drivers | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | EKS RX |
5 | Mattias Ekström |
422 |
| 57 | Toomas Heikkinen | |||
| 2 | Team Peugeot-Hansen |
9 | Sébastien Loeb |
387 |
| 21 | Timmy Hansen | |||
| 3 | Volkswagen RX Sweden |
3 | Johan Kristoffersson |
316 |
| 92 | Anton Marklund | |||
| 4 | Hoonigan Racing Division |
13 | Andreas Bakkerud |
302 |
| 43 | Ken Block | |||
| 5 |  World RX Team Austria |
6 | Jānis Baumanis |
226 |
| 7 | Timur Timerzyanov | |||
| 6 | Olsbergs MSE |
68 | Niclas Grönholm |
132 |
| 96 | Kevin Eriksson | |||
| 7 | all-inkl.com Münnich Motorsport |
15 | Reinis Nitišs |
67 |
| 55 | René Münnich |
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RX Lites Cup
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| Pos. | Driver | HOC |
BEL |
GBR |
NOR |
SWE |
CAN |
BAR |
LAT |
Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cyril Raymond |
2 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 175 | |
| 2 | Thomas Bryntesson |
1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 167 | |
| 3 | Simon Olofsson |
7 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 151 | |
| 4 | Joachim Hvaal |
3 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 136 | |
| 5 | Simon Wago Syversen |
6 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 11 | 3 | 10 | 115 | |
| 6 | Sondre Evjen |
9 | 4 | 6 | 10 | 13 | 8 | 1 | 98 | |
| 7 | Tejas Hirani |
8 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 16 | 6 | 3 | 96 | |
| 8 | Thomas Holmen |
9 | 9 | 5 | 6 | 55 | ||||
| 9 | Alexander Westlund |
4 | 9 | 5 | 38 | |||||
| 10 | Saeed Bintouq |
10 | 7 | 2 | 10 | 23 (30*) | ||||
| 11 | Patrick Simon |
5 | 21 | |||||||
| 12 | Marcus Hoglund |
6 | 19 | |||||||
| 13 | Albert Llovera |
11 | 17 | 9 | 17 | |||||
| 14 | Johan Larsson |
3 | 17 | |||||||
| 15 | Conner Martell |
4 | 2 | 16 (21*) | ||||||
| 16 | Henrik Krogstad |
4 | 15 | |||||||
| 17 | Vasily Gryazin |
9 | 14 | |||||||
| 18 | Dan Rooke |
8 | 13 | |||||||
| 19 | William Nilsson |
8 | 13 | |||||||
| 20 | Regis Gosselin |
8 | 12 | |||||||
| 21 | Martin Lapins |
11 | 11 | |||||||
| 22 | Ali Turkkan |
9 | 11 | |||||||
| 23 | Per Björnson |
10 | 10 | |||||||
| 24 | Jonathan Walfridsson |
12 | 15 | 8 | ||||||
| 25 | Magnus Hansen |
12 | 6 | |||||||
| 26 | Santosh Berggren |
14 | 3 | |||||||
| 27 | Mitchell DeJong |
1 | 0 (27*) | |||||||
| 28 | Miki Weckström |
5 | 0 (25*) | |||||||
| 29 | Oliver Eriksson |
3 | 0 (22*) | |||||||
| 30 | Andrew Ranger |
6 | 0 (17*) | |||||||
| 31 | Sandra Hultgren |
7 | 0 (15*) | |||||||
| 32 | Cole Keatts |
8 | 0 (12*) | |||||||
| Pos. | Driver | HOC |
BEL |
GBR |
NOR |
SWE |
CAN |
BAR |
LAT |
Points |
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- "FIA ANNOUNCES WORLD MOTOR SPORT COUNCIL DECISIONS". FIA. 2 December 2015. Retrieved 12 December 2015.
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