2016 Global RallyCross Championship

2016 Global RallyCross Championship
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The 2016 Red Bull Global RallyCross Championship was the sixth season of the Global RallyCross Championship. Scott Speed was the reigning Supercars champion and Oliver Eriksson was the reigning GRC Lites champion. The schedule consisted of twelve rounds at eight different venues. The season started at Wild Horse Pass Motorsports Park on May 21 and it concluded at the Port of Los Angeles on October 9.

Schedule

A twelve-round provisional calendar was revealed on January 26, 2016 with the sixth, seventh and eighth round to be announced, though it was certain the sixth and seventh round would take place on a military base.^[1] On March 3, 2016 GRC announced the eighth round would take place in Atlantic City^[2] and on June 1, 2016 GRC announced the sixth and seventh round would take place at the Marine Corps Air Station New River.^[3] It was the first time since the 2012 season that all events were held in the United States.

Round	Event	Location	Date
1	Red Bull Global RallyCross Phoenix	Wild Horse Pass Motorsports Park, Chandler, Arizona	21–22 May
2
3	Red Bull Global RallyCross Dallas	Fair Park, Dallas, Texas	4 June
4	Red Bull Global RallyCross Daytona	Daytona International Speedway, Daytona Beach, Florida	18–19 June
5
6	Red Bull Global RallyCross MCAS New River	MCAS New River, Jacksonville, North Carolina	2–3 July
7
8	Red Bull Global RallyCross Washington	RFK Stadium, Washington, D.C.	30 July
9	Red Bull Global RallyCross Atlantic City	Bader Field, Atlantic City, New Jersey	28 August
10	Red Bull Global RallyCross Seattle	Evergreen Speedway, Monroe, Washington	17 September
11	Red Bull Global RallyCross Los Angeles	Port of Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California	8–9 October
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Entry list

Supercars

Manufacturer	Team	Car	No.	Drivers	Rounds
Ford	Chip Ganassi Racing	Ford Fiesta ST	00	Steve Arpin	All
			38	Brian Deegan	All
	SH Rallycross		07	Jeff Ward	1–7
				Nelson Piquet Jr.	8–10
				Tanner Whitten (R)	11–12
	AD Racing		14	Austin Dyne	All
			77	Sebastián Saavedra (R)	1–2, 4–5
	Bryan Herta Rallysport		18	Patrik Sandell	All
Honda	Honda Red Bull OMSE	Honda Civic Coupe	24	Mitchell DeJong (R)	11–12
			31	Joni Wiman	All
			93	Sebastian Eriksson	All
			96	Kevin Eriksson	9
Hyundai	Rhys Millen Racing	Hyundai Veloster	67	Rhys Millen	1–5
Subaru	Subaru Rally Team USA	Subaru Impreza WRX STi	11	Sverre Isachsen	6–9
			55	Chris Atkinson (R)[4]	9–12
			75	David Higgins	10–12
			81	Bucky Lasek	6–9
			88	Toshi Arai (R)	11–12
Volkswagen	Volkswagen Andretti Rallycross	Volkswagen Beetle	34	Tanner Foust	All
			41	Scott Speed	All
Sources:[5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12]

GRC Lites

Every driver competes in an Olsbergs MSE-built GRC Lites car.

Team	No.	Drivers	Rounds
Dreyer & Reinbold Racing	2	Cabot Bigham (R)	All
	24	Alex Keyes	1–2, 6–9, 11–12
		Tanner Whitten	3–5, 10
AF Racing	3	Travis PeCoy (R)	All
	44	Christian Brooks (R)	All
	126	Alejandro Fernández	All
River Racing[N 1] Rhys Millen Racing[N 1]	07	Collete Davis	1–7
	22	Blake Williams	4–7, 11–12
	42	Nur Ali	3
	88	Preston Murray (R)	1–2
Olsbergs MSE X Forces	16	Oliver Eriksson	All
	45	Miki Weckström (R)	All
	51	Sandra Hultgren	8–9
	53	Cole Keatts (R)	All
PMG Rallysport	19	Trenton Estep (R)	1–2
		Parker Chase (R)	3–7
	69	Harry Gottsacker (R)	1–7
DirtFish Motorsports	21	Conner Martell	All
	25	James Rimmer (R)	10–12
CORE Autosport	54	Jon Bennett (R)	4–5, 8–10
		Colin Braun (R)	11–12
	56		4–5, 8–9
		Scott Anderson (R)	10–12
Sources:[5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12]

Results and standings

Race results

No.	Event	3rd Place	2nd Place	GRC Lites Winner	Winner	Winning Team	Manufacturer
1	Red Bull Global RallyCross Phoenix	Brian Deegan	Patrik Sandell	Miki Weckström	Tanner Foust	Volkswagen Andretti Rallycross	Volkswagen
2		Sebastian Eriksson	Scott Speed	Conner Martell	Tanner Foust	Volkswagen Andretti Rallycross	Volkswagen
3	Red Bull Global RallyCross Dallas	Tanner Foust	Steve Arpin	Oliver Eriksson	Patrik Sandell	Bryan Herta Rallysport	Ford
4	Red Bull Global RallyCross Daytona	Sebastian Eriksson	Brian Deegan	Oliver Eriksson	Steve Arpin	Chip Ganassi Racing	Ford
5		Sebastian Eriksson	Scott Speed	Tanner Whitten	Tanner Foust	Volkswagen Andretti Rallycross	Volkswagen
6	Red Bull Global RallyCross MCAS New River	Steve Arpin	Brian Deegan	Miki Weckström	Scott Speed	Volkswagen Andretti Rallycross	Volkswagen
7		The LCQ and Final of both the Supercars and GRC Lites were suspended due to track conditions after heavy rain.
8	Red Bull Global RallyCross Washington	Tanner Foust	Patrik Sandell	Cabot Bigham	Scott Speed	Volkswagen Andretti Rallycross	Volkswagen
9	Red Bull Global RallyCross Atlantic City	Brian Deegan	Patrik Sandell	Alex Keyes	Scott Speed	Volkswagen Andretti Rallycross	Volkswagen
10	Red Bull Global RallyCross Seattle	Joni Wiman	Sebastian Eriksson	Conner Martell	Tanner Foust	Volkswagen Andretti Rallycross	Volkswagen
11	Red Bull Global RallyCross Los Angeles	Steve Arpin	Tanner Foust	Alex Keyes	Scott Speed	Volkswagen Andretti Rallycross	Volkswagen
12		Patrik Sandell	Scott Speed	Cabot Bigham	Brian Deegan	Chip Ganassi Racing	Ford

Drivers' championships

Scoring system

Points were awarded based on finishing positions as shown in the chart below:

Position	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	10th	Others
Points	50	45	40	35	30	25	20	15	10	5	0

In addition, points were awarded in all rounds of heats and semifinals. First place earned five points, second place earned four points, and so on through fifth place and below, which earned one point.^[13]

Supercars

Pos. Driver Team PHO1 PHO2 DAL DAY1 DAY2 MCAS1 MCAS2 DC AC SEA LA1 LA2 Pts. 1 Scott Speed Volkswagen Andretti Rallycross 5^2 B 2^1 B 4^2 B 7 2^LCQ 1^LCQ C^1 1^2 A 1^2 A 4 1^2 A 2^A 571 2 Tanner Foust Volkswagen Andretti Rallycross 1^2 A 1^1 A 3^2 A 9^2 B 1^1 A 8^2 B C^B 3^2 B 4^2 B 1^2 A 2^B 4^1 LCQ 567 3 Brian Deegan Chip Ganassi Racing 3^LCQ 6^LCQ 7^LCQ 2 5^1 B 2 C 4 3 7 4 1 473 4 Steve Arpin Chip Ganassi Racing 4 5 2 1^1 A 6 3^A C^1 6^LCQ 5 5^1 3 10^1 461 5 Patrik Sandell Bryan Herta Rallysport 2 4 1 8^1 8 4^1 C 2 2 11 5 3 436 6 Joni Wiman Honda Red Bull OMSE 6 10 5 4 4 7 C 5 12 3^LCQ 11^2 5^B 342 7 Sebastian Eriksson Honda Red Bull OMSE 9 3 10 3 3 6^1 C^A 10 6^LCQ 2^1 B 9 12 341 8 Austin Dyne AD Racing 10 7 6 10 10 5 C 8 7 10 12 8 198 9 Jeff Ward SH Rallycross 7 8 9 5 7 9 C 134 10 Rhys Millen Rhys Millen Racing 8 9 8 6 9 96 11 Chris Atkinson (R) Subaru Rally Team USA 11 6 7 7 88 12 Nelson Piquet Jr. SH Rallycross 7 8 8 63 13 David Higgins Subaru Rally Team USA 9 6^LCQ 9 57 14 Tanner Whitten (R) SH Rallycross 10 6 37 15 Bucky Lasek Subaru Rally Team USA 10 C 9 10 34 16 Mitchell DeJong (R) Honda Red Bull OMSE 8 11 24 17 Sverre Isachsen Subaru Rally Team USA 11 C 11 9 19 18 Kevin Eriksson Honda Red Bull OMSE 13 4 19 Toshi Arai (R) Subaru Rally Team USA 13 13 4 20 Sebastián Saavedra (R) AD Racing 11 DNS WD WD 3

Colour Result Gold Winner Silver 2nd place Bronze 3rd place Green Points finish Blue Non-points finish Non-classified finish (NC) Purple Retired (Ret) Red Did not qualify (DNQ) Did not pre-qualify (DNPQ) Black Disqualified (DSQ) White Did not start (DNS) Withdrew (WD) Race cancelled (C) Blank Did not participate (DNP) Excluded (EX) Bold – Fastest time in qualifying ^1 2 – Number of heat wins ^A B – Winner of Semifinal A or B ^LCQ – Winner of the Last Chance Qualifier

GRC Lites

Pos.	Driver	Team	PHO1	PHO2	DAL	DAY1	DAY2	MCAS1	MCAS2	DC	AC	SEA	LA1	LA2	Pts.
1	Cabot Bigham (R)	Dreyer & Reinbold Racing	4	2	2	7	6	4^2	C^2	1^2	5	10	3	1^1	452
2	Oliver Eriksson	Olsbergs MSE X Forces	10	6	1^2	1^2	2^1	10^2	C^2	2	4	2^1	8^2	4^1	447
3	Miki Weckström (R)	Olsbergs MSE X Forces	1^2	3^2	10	10	3^1 LCQ	1	C	3^1	7	3	2	9	419
4	Conner Martell	DirtFish Motorsports	2^LCQ	1^1	8^LCQ	4	4	8	C	10	6^1	1^2	11	6^LCQ	359
5	Christian Brooks (R)	AF Racing	6	4	4	6	7	11	C	7	9^1	9	4	8	288
6	Alex Keyes	Dreyer & Reinbold Racing	3^2	8^1 LCQ				9	C	5	1^2		1^2	7^2	268
7	Alejandro Fernández	AF Racing	12	DSQ	7	5^LCQ	9	6^LCQ	C	6	10	4	6	5	256
8	Travis PeCoy (R)	AF Racing	7	DNS	9	11	5	13	C	4^1 LCQ	2	6^LCQ	5	DNS	249
9	Tanner Whitten	Dreyer & Reinbold Racing			3^2	2^2	1^2					8^1			188
10	Colin Braun (R)	CORE Autosport				3	10			12	3^LCQ		DSQ^LCQ	3	154
11	Collete Davis	River Racing	9	5	13	13	8	7	C						94
12	Parker Chase (R)	PMG Rallysport			6	8	11	3	C						85
13	Harry Gottsacker (R)	PMG Rallysport	11	DNS	5	15	14	5	C						85
14	Blake Williams	Rhys Millen Racing				14	13	2	C				9	DSQ	75
15	Trenton Estep (R)	PMG Rallysport	5	7											57
16	Scott Anderson (R)	CORE Autosport										11	12	2	55
17	Cole Keatts (R)	Olsbergs MSE X Forces	13	11	11	12	15	12	C	11	11	5	13	12	51
18	Jon Bennett (R)	CORE Autosport				9	12			9	12	7			51
19	Sandra Hultgren	Olsbergs MSE X Forces								8	8				36
20	Preston Murray (R)	Rhys Millen Racing	8	DNS											33
21	James Rimmer (R)	DirtFish Motorsports										12	7	11	25
22	Nur Ali	Rhys Millen Racing			12										3

Manufacturers' championship

Pos.	Manufacturer	Pts.
1	Volkswagen	51
2	Ford	44
3	Honda	36
4	Subaru	13

Notes

1. Car No. 07 entered as River Racing and cars No. 22, 42 and 88 entered as Rhys Millen Racing.

References

1. "Red Bull GRC Unveils 2016 Championship Schedule". redbullglobalrallycross.com. Global RallyCross Championship. January 26, 2016. Retrieved May 28, 2016.
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5. Leone, Chris (May 19, 2016). "Red Bull Global Rallycross Phoenix Entry Lists Released". redbullglobalrallycross.com. Global RallyCross Championship. Retrieved May 28, 2016.
6. Leone, Chris (June 2, 2016). "Red Bull GRC Dallas Entry Lists Released". redbullglobalrallycross.com. Global RallyCross Championship. Retrieved June 6, 2016.
7. Leone, Chris (June 15, 2016). "Red Bull GRC Daytona Entry Lists Released". redbullglobalrallycross.com. Global RallyCross Championship. Retrieved June 20, 2016.
8. Leone, Chris (June 28, 2016). "Red Bull GRC MCAS New River Entry Lists Released". redbullglobalrallycross.com. Global RallyCross Championship. Retrieved June 30, 2016.
9. Leone, Chris (July 28, 2016). "Red Bull GRC Washington DC Entry Lists Released". redbullglobalrallycross.com. Global RallyCross Championship. Retrieved July 28, 2016.
10. Leone, Chris (August 25, 2016). "Red Bull GRC Atlantic City Entry Lists Released". redbullglobalrallycross.com. Global RallyCross Championship. Retrieved August 26, 2016.
11. Leone, Chris (September 15, 2016). "Red Bull GRC Seattle Entry Lists Released". redbullglobalrallycross.com. Global RallyCross Championship. Retrieved September 15, 2016.
12. Leone, Chris (October 6, 2016). "Red Bull GRC Los Angeles presented by Honda Entry Lists Released". redbullglobalrallycross.com. Global RallyCross Championship. Retrieved October 8, 2016.
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External links

• Official website