2017 World RX of Portugal

World RX layout of Circuito Montalegre

2017 World RX of Portugal
Round 2 of 12 in the 2017 FIA World Rallycross Championship
Date	22–23 April 2017
Location	Montalegre, Vila Real
Venue	Pista Automóvel de Montalegre
Results
Heat winners Heat 1 Johan Kristoffersson PSRX Volkswagen Sweden Heat 2 Johan Kristoffersson PSRX Volkswagen Sweden Heat 3 Petter Solberg PSRX Volkswagen Sweden Heat 4 Andreas Bakkerud Hoonigan Racing Division Semi-final winners Semi-final 1 Petter Solberg PSRX Volkswagen Sweden Semi-final 2 Mattias Ekström EKS RX Final First Mattias Ekström EKS RX Second Sébastien Loeb Team Peugeot-Hansen Third Johan Kristoffersson PSRX Volkswagen Sweden

The 2017 World RX of Portugal was the second round of the fourth season of the FIA World Rallycross Championship. The event was held at the Pista Automóvel de Montalegre in Montalegre, Vila Real.

Supercar

PSRX Volkswagen Sweden drivers Johan Kristoffersson (pictured) and Petter Solberg dominated the heats

Timur Timerzyanov of STARD and Kevin Eriksson of World RX Team Austria

The start of Heat 3 Race 4 featuring Ekström, Kevin Hansen, Nitišs, Scheider and Grönholm

Grégoire Demoustier showed signs of improvement following his debut in the previous event

Defending champion Ekström made it two wins from as many starts in the 2017 season, beating Loeb (left) and Kristoffersson

Heats

Pos.	No.	Driver	Team	Car	Q1	Q2	Q3	Q4	Pts
1	11	Petter Solberg	PSRX Volkswagen Sweden	Volkswagen Polo GTI	2nd	2nd	1st	2nd	16
2	1	Mattias Ekström	EKS RX	Audi S1	5th	6th	2nd	6th	15
3	3	Johan Kristoffersson	PSRX Volkswagen Sweden	Volkswagen Polo GTI	1st	1st	21st	12th	14
4	9	Sébastien Loeb	Team Peugeot-Hansen	Peugeot 208	3rd	5th	19th	3rd	13
5	15	Reinis Nitišs	EKS RX	Audi S1	14th	8th	3rd	5th	12
6	6	Jānis Baumanis	STARD	Ford Fiesta	4th	11th	7th	8th	11
7	71	Kevin Hansen	Team Peugeot-Hansen	Peugeot 208	7th	7th	8th	10th	10
8	21	Timmy Hansen	Team Peugeot-Hansen	Peugeot 208	9th	13th	4th	9th	9
9	7	Timur Timerzyanov	STARD	Ford Fiesta	11th	4th	5th	15th	8
10	13	Andreas Bakkerud	Hoonigan Racing Division	Ford Focus RS	21st	20th	6th	1st	7
11	43	Ken Block	Hoonigan Racing Division	Ford Focus RS	17th	12th	9th	4th	6
12	57	Toomas Heikkinen	EKS RX	Audi S1	8th	15th	13th	7th	5
13	68	Niclas Grönholm	GRX	Ford Fiesta	13th	10th	10th	11th	4
14	96	Kevin Eriksson	MJP Racing Team Austria	Ford Fiesta	6th	3rd	22nd	14th	3
15	44	Timo Scheider	MJP Racing Team Austria	Ford Fiesta	12th	9th	12th	13th	2
16	100	Guy Wilks	LOCO Energy World RX	Volkswagen Polo	10th	17th	11th	17th	1
17	87	Jean-Baptiste Dubourg	DA Racing	Peugeot 208	15th	16th	15th	16th
18	77	René Münnich	All-Inkl.com Münnich Motorsport	SEAT Ibiza	18th	14th	14th	19th
19	69	Martin Kaczmarski	Martin Kaczmarski	Ford Fiesta	16th	19th	16th	18th
20	10	"Csucsu"	Speedy Motorsport	Kia Rio	19th	18th	17th	20th
21	66	Grégoire Demoustier	DA Racing	Peugeot 208	20th	21st	18th	21st
22	41	Joaquim Santos	Bompiso Racing Team	Ford Focus	22nd	22nd	20th	22nd

Semi-finals

Semi-Final 1

Pos.	No.	Driver	Team	Time	Pts
1	11	Petter Solberg	PSRX Volkswagen Sweden	3:57.377	6
2	3	Johan Kristoffersson	PSRX Volkswagen Sweden	+1.438	5
3	15	Reinis Nitišs	EKS RX	+3.881	4
4	71	Kevin Hansen	Team Peugeot-Hansen	+5.631	3
5	43	Ken Block	Hoonigan Racing Division	+6.002	2
6	7	Timur Timerzyanov	STARD	+7.189	1

Semi-Final 2

Pos.	No.	Driver	Team	Time	Pts
1	1	Mattias Ekström	EKS RX	3:58.543	6
2	9	Sébastien Loeb	Team Peugeot-Hansen	+0.739	5
3	21	Timmy Hansen	Team Peugeot-Hansen	+1.937	4
4	57	Toomas Heikkinen	EKS RX	+4.787	3
5	6	Jānis Baumanis	STARD	+48.971	2
6	13	Andreas Bakkerud	Hoonigan Racing Division	DNF	1

Final

Pos.	No.	Driver	Team	Time	Pts
1	1	Mattias Ekström	EKS RX	3:59.345	8
2	9	Sébastien Loeb	Team Peugeot-Hansen	+0.567	5
3	3	Johan Kristoffersson	PSRX Volkswagen Sweden	+0.909	4
4	21	Timmy Hansen	Team Peugeot-Hansen	+1.729	3
5	15	Reinis Nitišs	EKS RX	+2.590	2
6	11	Petter Solberg	PSRX Volkswagen Sweden	+31.143	1

Standings after the event

Pos	Driver	Pts	Gap
1	Mattias Ekström	58
2	Johan Kristoffersson	44	+14
3	Petter Solberg	42	+16
4	Andreas Bakkerud	30	+28
5	Timo Scheider	28	+30

• Note: Only the top five positions are included.