World RX FIA Championship

BarcelonaRX 2016 features races in the World SuperCars Championship, European SuperCars Championship, Super1600 and RX Lite categories.

RC Exhibition

The Drivers:

#1 Petter Solberg - Citroën DS3 - PSRX #43 Ken Block - Ford Focus RS - Hoonigan Racing Division #9 Sébastien Loeb - Peugeot 208 - Peugeot-Hansen #5 Mattias Ekström - Audi S1 - EKSRX #13 Andreas Bakkerud - Ford Focus RS - Hoonigan Racing Division #21 Timmy Hansen - Peugeot 208 - Peugeot-Hansen #57 Toomas Heikkinen - Audi S1 - EKSRX #4 Robin Larsson - Audi A1 - Larsson Jernberg Motorsport #92 Anton Marklund - Volkswagen Polo R - Volkswagen RX Sweden #3 Johan Kristoffersson - Volkswagen Polo R - Volkswagen RX Sweden #17 Davy Jeanney - Peugeot 208 - Peugeot-Hansen #33 Liam Doran - Mini Countryman - JRM #96 Kevin Eriksson - Ford Fiesta ST - Olsbergs MSE #68 Niclas Grönholm - Ford Fiesta ST - Olsbergs MSE #77 Rene Munnich - Seat Ibiza - ALL-INKL.com Münnich Motorsport #15 Reinis Nitiss - Seat Ibiza - ALL-INKL.com Münnich Motorsport #42 Timur Timerzyanov - Ford Fiesta - World RX Team Austria #6 Janis Baumanis - Ford Fiesta - World RX Team Austria

Categories:

The FIA World Rallycross Championship reaches its peak in the Supercars category. The FIA European Championship has separate titles for drivers in the following categories: Supercar, Super 1600, Touringcar and RX Lite.

- Supercar: The ultimate vehicles of the championship where the stars compete: Petter Solberg, Ken Block, Jacques Villeneuve, Tanner Foust, Mattias Ekstrom. With more than 600 horsepower they can accelerate from 0 to 100 km/h in 1.9 seconds (faster than a Formula 1 car).

- Super1600: Front-wheel-drive cars using 1600cc engines, where many current Supercar drivers got their start, such as Liam Doran, Timerzyanov, Bakkerud and Nitiss.

- TouringCar: Rear-wheel-drive cars with two-litre engines. A 21st-century reinterpretation of traditional rallycross — the discipline where drivers like Marklund and Tohill began.

- RX Lites: Identical vehicles built by Olsbergs MSE. A support and promotion category for the championship. The cars feature a mid-mounted 310 hp engine and four-wheel drive. Equality and fun at their finest.

Rallycross History:

The creator of rallycross was Robert Reed, producer of ITV's World of Sport. The first event took place at Lydden Hill (now the English leg of the World RX circuit) on 4 February 1967 and quickly became a Saturday afternoon classic in the United Kingdom. So much so that ITV and the BBC soon broadcast rallycross footage.

The popularity of this spectacular discipline soon spread with the first event on the European continent in Elst (Netherlands) in 1969, and expanded with rallycross's debut in Sweden two years later.

The Championship:

The FIA World Rallycross grew out of the FIA European Rallycross Championship (Euro RX), which traces its roots to the 1973 European Trophy and became a permanent FIA championship from 1976.

The FIA World Rallycross Championship presented by Monster Energy (World RX) was established in 2014 and consists of 12 rounds held in: Portugal, Great Britain, Norway, Finland, Sweden, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Turkey and Argentina.

In 2015 Barcelona replaced the Finland round and another round was added at Hockenheim in early May, part of the prestigious German DTM championship.