The eighth round of the 2018 FIA World Rallycross Championship gets underway on Saturday at Loheac in France.

Friday saw the Q1 Grid draw for the 2018 World RX of France announced, where twenty-five drivers will take to the track in the biggest entry of the season so far.

Q1 Race 1:

Timmy Hansen, Team Peugeot Total (Pole Position)

Topi Heikkinen, MJP Racing Team Austria

Kevin Eriksson, Olsbergs MSE

Robin Larsson, Olsbergs MSE

Timur Timerzyanov, GRX Taneco

Q1 Race 2:

Gaëtan Serazin (Pole Position)

Andrew Jordan, MJP Racing Team Austria

Davy Jeanney, Pailler Competition

Tommy Rustad, Marklund Motorsport

Kevin Hansen, Team Peugeot Total

Q1 Race 3:

Mattias Ekstrom, EKS Audi Sport (Pole Position)

Guerlain Chicheit, GC Kompetition

Janis Baumanis, Team STARD

Niclas Gronholm, GRX Taneco

Ollie O’Donovan, Team RX Racing

Q1 Race 4:

Johan Kristoffersson, PSRX Volkswagen Sweden (Pole Position)

Gregoire Demoustier, Sebastien Loeb Racing

Oliver Bennett, Xite Racing

Emmanuel Anne

Liam Doran, GC Kompetition

Q1 Race 5:

Petter Solberg, PSRX Volkswagen Sweden (Pole Position)

Timo Scheider, Muennich Motorsport

Andreas Bakkerud, EKS Audi Sport

Sebastien Loeb, Team Peugeot Total

Hervé “Knapick” Lemonnier



Qualifying One gets underway at 2.05pm local time (1.05pm British Summer Time) where the twenty five drivers will all be looking to set a good benchmark time to help them close in on a potential Semi-Final place on Sunday afternoon.