2017 World RX of South Africa

2017 World RX of South Africa
Round 12 of 12 in the 2017 FIA World Rallycross Championship
Date	11-12 November 2017
Location	Cape Town, Western Cape
Venue	Killarney Motor Racing Complex
Results
Heat Winners Heat 1 Timmy Hansen Team Peugeot-Hansen Heat 2 Jānis Baumanis STARD Heat 3 Johan Kristoffersson PSRX Volkswagen Sweden Heat 4 Timmy Hansen Team Peugeot-Hansen Semi-Final Winners Semi-Final 1 Johan Kristoffersson PSRX Volkswagen Sweden Semi-Final 2 Timmy Hansen Team Peugeot-Hansen Final First Johan Kristoffersson PSRX Volkswagen Sweden Second Timmy Hansen Team Peugeot-Hansen Third Mattias Ekström EKS RX

The 2017 World RX of South Africa was the twelfth and final round of the fourth season of the FIA World Rallycross Championship.^[1] The event was held at the Killarney Motor Racing Complex in Cape Town, Western Cape.

Supercar

Kevin Hansen, Toomas Heikkinen, Niclas Grönholm and Reinis Nitišs.

Sébastien Loeb leads Johan Kristoffersson whilst Mattias Ekström takes the Joker Lap

The event featured an all-Swedish podium, with Kristoffersson taking his seventh and final win of the 2017 season

Heats

Pos.	No.	Driver	Team	Car	Q1	Q2	Q3	Q4	Pts
1	3	Johan Kristoffersson	PSRX Volkswagen Sweden	Volkswagen Polo GTI	2nd	9th	1st	2nd	16
2	21	Timmy Hansen	Team Peugeot-Hansen	Peugeot 208	1st	14th	3rd	1st	15
3	1	Mattias Ekström	EKS RX	Audi S1	8th	10th	2nd	8th	14
4	44	Timo Scheider	MJP Racing Team Austria	Ford Fiesta	6th	11th	6th	4th	13
5	13	Andreas Bakkerud	Hoonigan Racing Division	Ford Focus RS	4th	5th	11th	9th	12
6	43	Ken Block	Hoonigan Racing Division	Ford Focus RS	5th	2nd	14th	12th	11
7	11	Petter Solberg	PSRX Volkswagen Sweden	Volkswagen Polo GTI	3rd	15th	5th	10th	10
8	71	Kevin Hansen	Team Peugeot-Hansen	Peugeot 208	14th	3rd	15th	3rd	9
9	6	Jānis Baumanis	STARD	Ford Fiesta	12th	1st	16th	11th	8
10	9	Sébastien Loeb	Team Peugeot-Hansen	Peugeot 208	7th	18th	4th	5th	7
11	57	Toomas Heikkinen	EKS RX	Audi S1	11th	4th	17th	6th	6
12	96	Kevin Eriksson	MJP Racing Team Austria	Ford Fiesta	10th	17th	8th	7th	5
13	7	Timur Timerzyanov	STARD	Ford Fiesta	9th	16th	7th	16th	4
14	87	Jean-Baptiste Dubourg	DA Racing	Peugeot 208	17th	7th	12th	15th	3
15	68	Niclas Grönholm	GRX	Ford Fiesta	15th	12th	13th	13th	2
16	98	Oliver Eriksson	Olsbergs MSE	Ford Fiesta	16th	8th	10th	19th	1
17	77	René Münnich	Münnich Motorsport	SEAT Ibiza	21st	6th	18th	14th
18	15	Reinis Nitišs	EKS RX	Audi S1	13th	20th	9th	18th
19	66	Grégoire Demoustier	DA Racing	Peugeot 208	19th	13th	21st	21st
20	124	Mark Cronje	Albatec Racing	Peugeot 208	18th	21st	20th	17th
21	59	Ashley Haigh-Smith	Olsbergs MSE	Ford Fiesta	20th	19th	19th	20th
22	10	"Csucsu"	Speedy Motorsport	Kia Rio	22nd	22nd	22nd	22nd

Semi-Finals

Semi-Final 1

Pos.	No.	Driver	Team	Time	Pts
1	3	Johan Kristoffersson	PSRX Volkswagen Sweden	4:27.571	6
2	11	Petter Solberg	PSRX Volkswagen Sweden	+0.761	5
3	1	Mattias Ekström	EKS RX	+0.723	4
4	13	Andreas Bakkerud	Hoonigan Racing Division	+1.446	3
5	6	Jānis Baumanis	STARD	+3.139	2
6	57	Toomas Heikkinen	EKS RX	+4.261	1

Semi-Final 2

Pos.	No.	Driver	Team	Time	Pts
1	21	Timmy Hansen	Team Peugeot-Hansen	4:26.464	6
2	44	Timo Scheider	MJP Racing Team Austria	+2.757	5
3	71	Kevin Hansen	Team Peugeot-Hansen	+21.905	4
4	9	Sébastien Loeb	Team Peugeot-Hansen	+25.118	3
5	68	Kevin Eriksson	MJP Racing Team Austria	+32.118	2
6	43	Ken Block	Hoonigan Racing Division	DSQ

Final

Pos.	No.	Driver	Team	Time	Pts
1	3	Johan Kristoffersson	PSRX Volkswagen Sweden	4:23.751	8
2	21	Timmy Hansen	Team Peugeot-Hansen	+0.918	5
3	1	Mattias Ekström	EKS RX	+2.951	4
4	11	Petter Solberg	PSRX Volkswagen Sweden	+3.417	3
5	44	Timo Scheider	MJP Racing Team Austria	+5.438	2
6	71	Kevin Hansen	Team Peugeot-Hansen	DNS	1

Standings after the event

Pos	Driver	Pts	Gap
1	Johan Kristoffersson	316
2	Mattias Ekström	255	+61
3	Petter Solberg	252	+64
4	Sébastien Loeb	214	+102
5	Timmy Hansen	201	+115

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