WRX : 2019 Season Calendar & Teams
The World Rally Cross Championship will be held across 10 tracks throughout the world this season.
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Calendar
R1 : WRX Abu Dhabi → April 5th
R2 : WRX Catalunya → April 27th
R3 : WRX Benelux → May 11th
R4 : WRX Great Britain → May 25th
R5 : WRX Norway → June 15th
R6 : WRX Sweden → July 6th
R7 : WRX Canada → August 3rd
R8 : WRX France → August 31st
R9 : WRX Latvia → September 14th
R10 : WRX South Africa → November 9th
WRX Teams 2019
To be eligible for points in order to compete for the Team Championship, the team must have two drivers competing in every round of the season.
GC Kompetition
The french team entered the sport in 2018, all set for their second year.
Cars → Renault Megane R.S.
Drivers → Guerlain Chicherit [France] & Anton Marklund [Sweden]
GCK Academy
This team is a second team, part of GC Kompetition.
Cars → Renault Clio R.S.
Drivers → Cyril Raymond [France] & Guillame De Ridder [Belgium]
Team Hansen MJP
The team operated by Kenneth Hansen along with his two sons as drivers, got MJP (Max Pucher) to fill in the void of Peugeot who left this season.
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Cars → Peugeot 208
Drivers → Timmy & Kevin Hansen [Sweden]
Monster Energy RX Cartel
A new team for this season by Monster Energy.
Cars → Audi S1
Drivers → Andreas Bakkerud [Norway] & Liam Doran [Great Britain]
GRX Taneco
Owned and operated by Michael Gronholm.
Cars → Hyundai i20
Drivers (All Rounds) → Niclas Gronholm [Finland] & Timur Timerzyanov [Russian Federation]
Drivers (Selective Rounds)
→ Reinis Nitišs [Latvia] will be driving in WRX Abu Dhabi
GRX Set will be competing at the WRX Benelux
(Spa-Francorchamps) with Joni Wiman [Finland] as their driver behind the wheel of a Hyundai i20.
All-Inkl.com Racing will be competing at all rounds of the season but with only one driver, Timo Scheider [Germany] in the Seat Ibiza.
ES Motorsport-Labas GAS will be competing in all the rounds of the season but only with one driver, Rokas Baciuška [Lithuania] behind the wheel of a Skoda Fabia.
Xite Racing will be competing in all the rounds of the season as well with Oliver Bennet [United Kingdom] behind the wheel of a Mini Cooper.
EKS Sport will also be competing in all the rounds of the season with a single driver, Krisztián Szabó [Hungary] in a Audi S1.
Team JC Race Teknik will be competing in WRX Benelux with a single driver, Enzo Ide in a Audi S1.
Kárai Motorsport Egyesület will be competing in WRX Catalunya with Tamás Kárai [Hungary] as their driver behind the wheel of the Audi A1.
Grégoire Demoustier [Belgium] will be driving independently in the WRX Benelux (Spa-Francorchamps) behind the wheel of a Peugeot 208.
Hervé “Knapick” Lemonnier [France] will be driving independently behind the wheel of a Citroen DS3 in the WRX Catalunya as well as WRX Benelux
(Spa-Francorchamps).
Christopher Hoy [United Kingdom] will be behind the wheel of a Ford Fiesta MK7 at the WRX Catalunya as an independent driver.
Mattias Ekström [Sweden] will be driving independently at the WRX Benelux (Spa-Francorchamps) in a Audi S1.
Stard
Stard is an Austrian team owned by Manfred Stohl.
Cars → Ford Fiesta MK 7 & Ford Fiesta MK 8
Drivers (All Rounds) → Jānis Baumanis [Latvia, MK 8]
Drivers (Selective Rounds)
→ Jani Paasonen [Finland] will be competing in Round 2,4,5,7,8 in the MK 8
→ Jere Kalliokoski [Finland] will be competing in Round 6 & 10 in the MK 7
→ Pål Try [Norway] will be competing in Round 1,3 & 9 in the MK 7
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