2017 Global RallyCross Championship

The 2017 Red Bull Global RallyCross Championship was the seventh and final season of the Global RallyCross Championship. Scott Speed was the reigning Supercars champion for a second season and Cabot Bigham was the reigning GRC Lites champion. The schedule consisted of twelve rounds at eight different venues.[1]

2017 Global RallyCross Championship
Previous: 2016 Next: none

Schedule
Round Event Location Date
1 Red Bull Global RallyCross Memphis Memphis International Raceway, Millington, Tennessee 29 April
2 Red Bull Global RallyCross Louisville Kentucky Exposition Center, Louisville, Kentucky 21 May
3 Red Bull Global RallyCross New England Thompson Speedway Motorsports Park, Thompson, Connecticut 3-4 June
4
5 Red Bull Global RallyCross Ottawa Canada Aviation and Space Museum, Ottawa, Ontario 17-18 June
6
7 Red Bull Global RallyCross Indianapolis Lucas Oil Raceway, Brownsburg, Indiana 9 July
8 Red Bull Global RallyCross Atlantic City Bader Field, Atlantic City, New Jersey 12-13 August
9
10 Red Bull Global RallyCross Seattle Evergreen Speedway, Monroe, Washington 9-10 September
11
12 Red Bull Global RallyCross Los Angeles Port of Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 14 October

Entry list

Supercars
Manufacturer Team Car No. Drivers Rounds
Ford Loenbro Motorsports Ford Fiesta ST 00 Steve Arpin All
Bryan Herta Rallysport 2 Cabot Bigham (R) 1–9, 12
19 Austin Cindric (R) 10–11
Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing 14 Austin Dyne All
Honda Honda Red Bull OMSE Honda Civic Coupe 16 Oliver Eriksson (R) All
24 Mitchell DeJong All
93 Sebastian Eriksson All
Subaru Subaru Rally Team USA Subaru Impreza WRX STi 18 Patrik Sandell All
55 Chris Atkinson All
Volkswagen Volkswagen Andretti Rallycross Volkswagen Beetle 34 Tanner Foust All
41 Scott Speed All

GRC Lites

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

Team No. Drivers Rounds
Dreyer & Reinbold Racing 3 Travis PeCoy All
24 Alex Keyes All
44 Christian Brooks All
AF Racing 4 Gustavo Yacamán 2
5 Burt Jenner 1
42 Matt Halliday 7
126 Alejandro Fernández 1–6, 8–12
Olsbergs MSE X Forces 13 Cyril Raymond All
53 Cole Keatts All
77 Scott Anderson 8–12
242 Mark Brummond 10–12
DirtFish Motorsports 21 Conner Martell 1–10, 12
25 James Rimmer All
CORE Autosport 54 Jon Bennett 1–6, 8–9
56 Colin Braun 1–6, 8–9

Results and standings

Race results
No. Event 3rd Place 2nd Place GRC Lites Winner Winner Winning Team Manufacturer
1 Red Bull Global RallyCross Memphis Steve Arpin Tanner Foust Conner Martell Scott Speed Volkswagen Andretti Rallycross Volkswagen
2 Red Bull Global RallyCross Louisville Scott Speed Steve Arpin Christian Brooks Sebastian Eriksson Red Bull Honda OMSE Honda
3 Red Bull Global RallyCross New England Mitchell DeJong Scott Speed Cyril Raymond Tanner Foust Volkswagen Andretti Rallycross Volkswagen
4 Chris Atkinson Scott Speed Cyril Raymond Steve Arpin Loenbro Motorsports Ford
5 Red Bull Global RallyCross Ottawa Mitchell DeJong Tanner Foust Cyril Raymond Steve Arpin Loenbro Motorsports Ford
6 Mitchell DeJong Scott Speed Cyril Raymond Tanner Foust Volkswagen Andretti Rallycross Volkswagen
7 Red Bull Global RallyCross Indianapolis Steve Arpin Tanner Foust Christian Brooks Scott Speed Volkswagen Andretti Rallycross Volkswagen
8 Red Bull Global RallyCross Atlantic City Steve Arpin Patrik Sandell Cyril Raymond Scott Speed Volkswagen Andretti Rallycross Volkswagen
9 Steve Arpin Sebastian Eriksson Conner Martell Scott Speed Volkswagen Andretti Rallycross Volkswagen
10 Red Bull Global RallyCross Seattle Chris Atkinson Scott Speed Cyril Raymond Tanner Foust Volkswagen Andretti Rallycross Volkswagen
11 Patrik Sandell Scott Speed Christian Brooks Tanner Foust Volkswagen Andretti Rallycross Volkswagen
12 Red Bull Global RallyCross Los Angeles Patrik Sandell Scott Speed Conner Martell Tanner Foust Volkswagen Andretti Rallycross Volkswagen

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.[2] Heat winners earned seven points and semi winners earned ten points.

Supercars
Pos. Driver Team MEM LOU NE1 NE2 OTT1 OTT2 IND AC1 AC2 SEA1 SEA2 LA Pts.
1 Scott Speed Volkswagen Andretti Rallycross 12 A 32 A 21 B 21 DNS2 23 A 13 A 11 B 13 A 21 22 A 2B 826
2 Tanner Foust Volkswagen Andretti Rallycross 21 B 42 B 13 A 92 A 21 A 11 B 21 B 10 A 9 13 A 11 13 A 807
3 Steve Arpin Loenbro Motorsports 31 21 41 1B 1B 101 3 32 3 4 7 51 743
4 Sebastian Eriksson Red Bull Honda OMSE 71 1 10 6 6 41 6 4 21 B 10 9 7 651
5 Mitchell DeJong Red Bull Honda OMSE 4 5 3 4 3 3 DNS 5 51 9 8 6 640
6 Oliver Eriksson (R) Red Bull Honda OMSE 5 7 91 81 81 5 4 6 7 51 10 10 601
7 Chris Atkinson Subaru Rally Team USA 81 DNS 7 3 41 9 81 9 41 31 B 5 9 585
8 Patrik Sandell Subaru Rally Team USA 9 DNS 6 5 9 7 7 2 10 7 3B 31 582
9 Austin Dyne Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing DNS 61 5 7 5 6 5 7 8 6 6 81 562
10 Cabot Bigham (R) Bryan Herta Rallysport 6 8 8 10 71 8 91 81 6 4 473
11 Austin Cindric (R) Bryan Herta Rallysport 8 4 102
ColourResult
GoldWinner
Silver2nd place
Bronze3rd place
GreenPoints finish
BlueNon-points finish
Non-classified finish (NC)
PurpleRetired (Ret)
RedDid not qualify (DNQ)
Did not pre-qualify (DNPQ)
BlackDisqualified (DSQ)
WhiteDid not start (DNS)
Withdrew (WD)
Race cancelled (C)
Blank Did not participate (DNP)
Did not arrive (DNA)
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 MEM LOU NE1 NE2 OTT1 OTT2 IND AC1 AC2 SEA1 SEA2 LA Pts.
1 Cyril Raymond Olsbergs MSE X Forces 22 91 12 A 12 A 12 A 1 A 22 12 62 A 11 B 21 B 91 B 786
2 Christian Brooks Dreyer & Reinbold Racing 31 11 A 21 3 9B 10 1B 8 2 22 1 3 692
3 Travis PeCoy Dreyer & Reinbold Racing 8 81 31 5 4 2 3 4B 3 3A 71 41 672
4 Conner Martell DirtFish Motorsports 11 B 21 B 10 41 3 51 61 A 21 A 1 B 8 12 A 656
5 Alex Keyes Dreyer & Reinbold Racing 9A 10 5B 6 81 31 B DSQ 31 51 61 3 2 603
6 James Rimmer DirtFish Motorsports 5 6LCQ 7 7 7 4 5 5 DNQ 5 82 A 8 562
7 Cole Keatts Olsbergs MSE X Forces DNQ1 7 6 91 B 6 6 41 101 10 4 6 7 543
8 Alejandro Fernández AF Racing 6 DNQ 9 10 5 71 7 8 9 4 10 458
9 Colin Braun CORE Autosport 41 41 4 2 21 81 DNQ1 41 405
10 Jon Bennett CORE Autosport 7 51 8 8 DNS 9 9 9LCQ 281
11 Scott Anderson Olsbergs MSE X Forces 6LCQ 7 7 5 5 242
12 Mark Brummond Olsbergs MSE X Forces DSQ 9 6 79
13 Gustavo Yacamán AF Racing 3 60
14 Matt Halliday AF Racing 7 45
15 Burt Jenner AF Racing 10LCQ 16

Manufacturers' championship
Pos. Manufacturer Pts.
1 Volkswagen
2 Ford
3 Honda
4 Subaru

References
  1. "Global Rallycross announces 2017 event schedule". us.motorsport.com. Retrieved 6 February 2019.
  2. "GRC 101". redbullglobalrallycross.com. Global RallyCross Championship. Archived from the original on June 11, 2016. Retrieved May 28, 2016.
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