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Eighteen drivers (nine different nationalities) will battle it out in the headline World Championship Supercar class which includes six teams and six individual entries.

Finnish-based team GRX and driver Niclas Grönholm – son of double WRC Champion Marcus Grönholm - will contest the 2017 FIA World Rallycross Championship with an M-Sport built Ford Fiesta RX Supercar.

French-based team DA Racing-Eurodatacar has confirmed it will enter the 2017 FIA World Rallycross Championship with Jean-Baptiste Dubourg set to compete in all 12 rounds of the World Championship.

Britain’s Guy Wilks has confirmed he will enter all 12 rounds of the 2017 FIA World Rallycross Championship at the wheel of a Volkswagen RX Polo Supercar.

A new two-car team – STARD – has confirmed its entry into the 2017 FIA World Rallycross Championship.

Reigning FIA World Rallycross Champion Mattias Ekstrom and his team, EKS, will contest the 2017 season with three Audi S1 EKS RX quattro cars. Latvia’s Reinis Nitiss will join team-mates Ekstrom and Topi Heikkinen in the team’s third car

2016 FIA European Rallycross Champion and FIA Rookie of the Year Kevin Hansen joins Sebastien Loeb and Timmy Hansen for full FIA World Rallycross Championship campaign

Frenchman Guerlain Chicherit and British-based company Prodrive will develop an all-new rallycross car – the new Renault Megane RX - for the 2018 FIA World Rallycross Championship. The Renault Megane RX Supercar will be unveiled at this year’s World RX of France in Loheac (1-3 September).

MJP Racing Team Austria (formerly known as World RX Team Austria) has today announced that Sweden’s Kevin Eriksson will join double DTM Champion Timo Scheider in the two-car squad for the 2017 FIA World Rallycross Championship.

Two-time World RX Champion Petter Solberg and last year’s World RX vice-champion Johan Kristoffersson will contest the 2017 FIA World Rallycross Championship in a pair of Volkswagen Polo RX Supercars that have been developed and engineered in Hanover, Germany.