The PSRX driver is the first double winner in RX this year. Volkswagen Marklund Motorsport's Anton Marklund and Team Peugeot-Hansen's Timur Timerzyanov finished second and third respectively, both securing podium spots for the first time this season.
Staged at the Trois Rivieres street circuit as part of the annual Grand Prix Trois-Rivieres motorsport festival, the seventh round of the World RX attracted crowds of more than 30,000 people to watch 18 flame-spitting Supercars and nine RX Lites cars in the Intercontinental Cup. Three Canadian stars also helped draw a passionate home crowd as F1 World Champion Jacques Villeneuve, former IndyCar star Patrick Carpentier and multiple Canadian Rally Champion Antoine L'Estrange took to the all-new RX circuit. Villeneuve was denied a place in the semi-finals after a fuel tank issue meant he was forced to withdraw but Carpentier wowed the crowds on his World RX debut, reach the final and eventually finishing sixth.
Round eight of the FIA World Rallycross Championship will return to European soil as the World RX crews prepare for the French RX event in Loheac from 6-7 September.
DRIVER POINTS AFTER ROUND 7, WORLD RX OF CANADA
1. Petter Solberg, 155 points
2. Topi Heikkinen, 135 points
3. Reinis Nitiss, 133 points
4. Andreas Bakkerud, 113 points
5. Anton Marklund, 111 points
TEAM POINTS AFTER ROUND 7, WORLD RX OF CANADA
1. Volkswagen Marklund, 246 points
1.= Ford Olsbergs MSE, 246 points
3. Team Peugeot-Hansen, 185 points
4. PSRX, 147 points
5. Monster Energy World RX Team, 83 points
6. Albatec Racing, 25 points.
