The 2019 Americas Rallycross Championship was the second and final season of the Americas Rallycross Championship, a feeder championship to the FIA World Rallycross Championship representing North America. The season consists of six rounds across two categories; Supercar and ARX2. The season commenced on 8 June at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course in Lexington, Ohio and finished on the 6 October at the same location.
The series folded after the 2019 season. [1]
The calendar was unveiled on 31 January 2019. [2]
Rnd | Event | Date | Venue | Class | Winner | Team |
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1 | ARX of Mid-Ohio | 8–9 June | Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course, Lexington | Supercar | Scott Speed | Subaru Rally Team USA |
ARX2 (Day 1) | Alex Keyes | Racing4Detroit | ||||
ARX2 (Day 2) | Fraser McConnell | Dirtfish | ||||
ARX3 (Day 1) | John McInnes | SIERRA | ||||
ARX3 (Day 2) | John McInnes | SIERRA | ||||
2 | ARX of Gateway | 13 July | World Wide Technology Raceway at Gateway, Madison | Supercar | Chris Atkinson | Subaru Rally Team USA |
ARX2 | Conner Martell | Dreyer & Reinbold Racing | ||||
ARX3 | Blake "Bilko" Williams | SIERRA | ||||
3 | 14 July | Supercar | Patrik Sandell | Subaru Rally Team USA | ||
ARX2 | Conner Martell | Dreyer & Reinbold Racing | ||||
ARX3 | Blake "Bilko" Williams | SIERRA | ||||
4 | ARX of Canada | 3–4 August | Circuit Trois-Rivières, Trois-Rivières | Supercar | Tanner Foust | Volkswagen Andretti Rallycross |
ARX2 (Day 1) | Fraser McConnell | Dirtfish | ||||
ARX2 (Day 2) | Fraser McConnell | Dirtfish | ||||
5 | ARX of Austin | 28 September | Circuit of the Americas, Austin | Supercar | Tanner Foust | Volkswagen Andretti Rallycross |
ARX2 | Fraser McConnell | Dirtfish | ||||
ARX3 | Dave Carapetyan | SIERRA | ||||
6 | ARX of Mid-Ohio | 5–6 October | Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course, Lexington | Supercar | Chris Atkinson | Subaru Rally Team USA |
ARX2 (Day 1) | Sage Karam | Dreyer & Reinbold Racing | ||||
ARX2 (Day 2) | Fraser McConnell | Dirtfish | ||||
ARX3 (Day 1) | Keegan Kincaid | SIERRA | ||||
ARX3 (Day 2) | Keegan Kincaid | SIERRA |
Constructor | Entrant | Car | No. | Drivers | Rounds |
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Ford | Loenbro Motorsports [4] | Ford Fiesta ST | 00 | Steve Arpin [4] | All |
3 | Travis PeCoy [5] | All | |||
Subaru | Subaru Motorsports USA [6] | Subaru WRX STI | 13 | Andreas Bakkerud | 5–6 |
18 | Patrik Sandell [6] | All | |||
31 | Joni Wiman | 5–6 | |||
41 | Scott Speed [6] | 1–4 | |||
55 | Chris Atkinson [6] | All | |||
Volkswagen | Volkswagen Andretti Rallycross [7] | Volkswagen Beetle | 02 | Cabot Bigham [7] | All |
34 | Tanner Foust [7] | All |
Constructor | Entrant | Car | No. | Drivers | Rounds |
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OMSE | Racing4Detroit [8] | Olsbergs MSE RX2 | 4 | Alex Keyes [9] | 1–4, 7–9 |
Loenbro Motorsports | 09 | Michael Leach | 3–9 | ||
Dreyer & Reinbold Racing [10] | 21 | Conner Martell | 3–9 | ||
24 | Sage Karam [11] | 1–2, 7–9 | |||
28 | Gray Leadbetter [12] | All | |||
48 | J. R. Hildebrand [13] | 1–4 | |||
53 | Cole Keatts [10] | All | |||
55 | Lane Vacala | 5–9 | |||
Dirtfish [14] | 35 | Fraser McConnell [14] | All | ||
70 | Brad Deberti [14] | 1–4, 7 |
Constructor | Entrant | Car | No. | Drivers | Rounds |
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SIERRA | SIERRA | SIERRA RX3 | 1 | Bill Shuster | All |
2 | Aaron Kaufman | 1–4 | |||
3 | Jim Jonsin | 1–2 | |||
4 | John McInnes | All | |||
5 | James Kirkham | 1–4 | |||
6 | Dave Wallingford | 1–2 | |||
8 | Michael Leach | 2 | |||
15 | Clay Note | 5 | |||
21 | Dave Carapetyan | 5 | |||
22 | Blake "Bilko" Williams | 3–4 | |||
25 | Dylan Towne | 5 | |||
31 | Tommy Boileau | 3–7 | |||
41 | Keegan Kincaid | 6–7 | |||
43 | Steve Burns | 5–7 | |||
49 | Justin Peck | 5 |
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 |
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Pos. | Driver | MO1 | GTW | CAN | COT | MO2 | Points | ||||
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1 | Fraser McConnell | 6 | 1 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 219 |
2 | Cole Keatts | 5 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 186 |
3 | Conner Martell | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 155 | ||
4 | Alex Keyes | 1 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 139 | ||
5 | Gray Leadbetter | 7 | 5 | 8 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 7 | 8 | 132 |
6 | Sage Karam | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 129 | ||||
7 | Brad Deberti | 3 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 95 | ||||
8 | Michael Leach | 6 | 8 | 5 | 6 | 8 | 8 | 5 | 93 | ||
9 | J. R. Hildebrand | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 79 | |||||
10 | Lane Vacala | 6 | 5 | 9 | 6 | 6 | 71 | ||||
Pos. | Driver | MO1 | GTW | CAN | COT | MO2 | Points |
Pos. | Driver | MO1 | GTW | COT | MO2 | Points | |||
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1 | John McInnes | 1 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 121 |
2 | Bill Shuster | 5 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 113 |
3 | Tommy Boileau | 2 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 94 | ||
4 | James Kirkham | 6 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 68 | |||
5 | Aaron Kaufman | 4 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 55 | |||
6 | Keegan Kincaid | 1 | 1 | 48 | |||||
7 | Blake "Bilko" Williams | 1 | 1 | 46 | |||||
8 | Jim Jonsin | 2 | 3 | 38 | |||||
9 | Steve Burns | 8 | 5 | 5 | 37 | ||||
10 | Dave Wallingford | 3 | 5 | 33 | |||||
11 | Dave Carapetyan | 1 | 24 | ||||||
12 | Dylan Towne | 3 | 19 | ||||||
13 | Michael Leach | 4 | 14 | ||||||
14 | Justin Peck | 6 | 13 | ||||||
15 | Clay Note | 7 | 10 | ||||||
Pos. | Driver | MO1 | GTW | COT | MO2 | Points |
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