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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.
Rnd. | Event | Dates | Venue | Class | Winner | Team | Report |
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1 | World RX of Great Britain | 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 | Tanner Foust | Volkswagen Andretti Rallycross | Report |
ARX2 (Day 1) | Alex Keyes | Robbie Buhl | |||||
ARX2 (Day 2) | Alex Keyes | Robbie Buhl |
Americas RX Teams | |||||
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Constructor | Entrant | Car | No. | Drivers | Rounds |
BMW | Xite Racing | BMW MINI Cooper | 42 | Oliver Bennett | 2–4 |
Citroën | LD Motorsports | Citroën DS3 | 33 | Liam Doran | 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 |
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 Teams | |||||
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Constructor | Entrant | Car | No. | Drivers | Rounds |
OMSE | Dreyer & Reinbold Racing | Olsbergs MSE RX2 | 2 | Cabot Bigham | 2–3 |
3 | Travis PeCoy | All | |||
24 | Matt Carpoff | All | |||
44 | Christian Brooks | All | |||
Robbie Buhl | 4 | Alex Keyes | All | ||
Dirtfish | 21 | Conner Martell | All | ||
25 | James Rimmer | All | |||
35 | Fraser McConnell | All | |||
77 | Scott Anderson | All | |||
Keatts Motorsport | 53 | Cole Keatts | All |
Championship points are scored as follows:
Position | ||||||||||||||||
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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 |
(key)
Pos. | Driver | GBR | USA1 | CAN | USA2 | Points |
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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 | |||
Pos. | Driver | GBR | USA1 | CAN | USA2 | Points |
(key)
Pos. | 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 | 9a | 9 | 8 | 56 |
9 | James Rimmer | 7 | 5 | 4 | 54 | ||
10 | Cabot Bigham | 4 | 10a | 6 | 4 | 51 | |
Pos. | Driver | USA1 | CAN1 | CAN2 | USA2 | USA3 | Points |
a Did not finish the event and so got no points.
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