Barcelona World RX: Petter Solberg takes victory
World Rallycross points leader Petter Solberg won the tenth round of the championship at the Barcelona Formula 1 circuit, leading throughout


Until the final, the weekend hadn't gone Solberg's way; he was fourth after day one, hit a wall in heat three and broke the suspension on his Citroen DS3.
Second fastest in heat two behind Timmy Hansen brought him up to sixth at the intermediate classification, from where he finished second to start on the second row of the grid for the final.
By contrast, Hansen continued his form from back-to-back victories in Norway and France and topped the intermediate stage, setting the pace in the heats with his Peugeot 208.
The Swede won semi-final one from pole position and ran side-by-side with semi-final two winner Johan Kristoffersson in the run up to Turn 1 in the final.
As the pair jostled for position, they both ran wide, and Solberg seized the opportunity to dive for the inside into Turn 2 and take the lead.
Behind, Robin Larsson was a victim of contact and retired at the start of the first loose section.
Solberg then made a mistake into the fourth corner and ran wide, but Hansen did the same.
Solberg immediately began to pull away from Hansen, while Kristoffersson took his joker at the end of the first lap, dropping to fourth.
Hansen's team mate Davey Jeanney ran third, the pair line astern until Jeanney took his joker on the third lap.
Kristoffersson jumped the Frenchman in the process, while Jeanney remained ahead of Tanner Foust in fifth.
Kristoffersson set about hunting down Hansen, and passed his compatriot when Hansen took the joker on the fifth lap, behind leader Solberg, who was clear in front.
Hansen pushed Kristoffersson hard for the final lap and made contact with the rear of the VW Polo in the final corner but there was no way by.
As Solberg and Kristoffersson celebrated with donuts after the finish, Foust tried to pass Jeanney in the final corner but remained fifth.
Mattias Ekstrom didn't make it through the semi-final stages, while fellow DTM driver Timo Scheider made his rallycross debut but retired from the first heat and didn't make the semis.
FINAL RESULT
Pos | Driver | Team | Car | Laps | Gap |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Petter Solberg | SDRX | Citroen | 6 | 4m51.051s |
2 | Johan Kristoffersson | Volkswagen Team Sweden | Volkswagen | 6 | 2.673s |
3 | Timmy Hansen | Team Peugeot-Hansen | Peugeot | 6 | 2.858s |
4 | Davy Jeanney | Team Peugeot-Hansen | Peugeot | 6 | 5.744s |
5 | Tanner Foust | Marklund Motorsport | Volkswagen | 6 | 5.959s |
6 | Robin Larsson | Audi | 0 | 6 Laps | |
7 | Mattias Ekstrom | EKS | Audi | 0 | 6 Laps |
8 | Toomas Heikkinen | Marklund Motorsport | Volkswagen | 0 | 6 Laps |
9 | Reinis Nitiss | Olsbergs MSE | Ford | 0 | 6 Laps |
10 | Andreas Bakkerud | Olsbergs MSE | Ford | 0 | 6 Laps |
11 | Timur Timerzyanov | Namus OMSE | Ford | 0 | 6 Laps |
12 | Tord Linnerud | Volkswagen Team Sweden | Volkswagen | 0 | 6 Laps |
13 | Manfred Stohl | World RX Team Austria | Ford | 0 | 6 Laps |
14 | Henning Solberg | Per Eklund Motorsport | Volkswagen | 0 | 6 Laps |
15 | Anton Marklund | EKS | Audi | 0 | 6 Laps |
16 | Timo Scheider | All-Inkl.com Munnich Motorsport | Audi | 0 | 6 Laps |
17 | Alx Danielsson | All-Inkl.com Munnich Motorsport | Audi | 0 | 6 Laps |
18 | Liam Doran | SDRX | Citroen | 0 | 6 Laps |
19 | Max Pucher | World RX Team Austria | Ford | 0 | 6 Laps |
20 | Herve Lemonnier | KNAPICK | Citroen | 0 | 6 Laps |
21 | Christophe Jouet | Citroen | 0 | 6 Laps | |
22 | Mark Flaherty | Ford | 0 | 6 Laps | |
- | Tommy Rustad | HTB-Marklund Motorsport | Volkswagen | 0 | Not classified |
- | Jerome Grosset-Janin | Albatec Racing LTD | Peugeot | 0 | Not classified |
- | Ollie O'Donovan | Ford | 0 | Not classified | |
- | James Grint | Peugeot | 0 | Not classified | |
- | Alexander Hvaal | JC Raceteknik | Citroen | 0 | Not classified |
- | Christian Giarolo | Ford | 0 | Not classified | |
- | Jean-Baptiste Dubourg | Citroen | 0 | Not classified | |
- | Peter Hedstrom | Ford | 0 | Not classified | |
- | Riku Tahko | #Minisuomi | Mini/BMW | 0 | Not classified |
- | Ramona Karlsson | Ramona RX | Volkswagen | 0 | Not classified |
- | Tamas Karai | Racing-Com Kft. | Skoda | 0 | Not classified |
- | Frode Holte | Frode Holte Motorsport | Hyundai | 0 | Not classified |
- | Lukas Walfridson | Helmia Motorsport | Renault | 0 | Not classified |
- | Fredrik Salsten | Hansen Talent Development | Peugeot | 0 | Not classified |
- | Ole-Christian Veiby | Volkswagen Team Sweden | Volkswagen | 0 | Not classified |
- | Jonathan Pailler | Peugeot | 0 | Not classified | |
- | Fabien Pailler | Peugeot | 0 | Not classified | |
- | Joni-Pekka Rajala | Marklund Motorsport | Saab | 0 | Not classified |
- | Koen Pauwels | Ford | 0 | Not classified | |
- | Philippe Maloigne | Citroen | 0 | Not classified |

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