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2015 World RX of Belgium

Belgium 2015 World RX of Belgium
Round 3 of 13 in the
2015 FIA World Rallycross Championship
Date 16–17 May 2015
Location Mettet, Wallonia
Venue Circuit Jules Tacheny Mettet
Results
Heat Winners
Heat 1 Sweden Mattias Ekström
EKS RX
Heat 2 Sweden Timmy Hansen
Team Peugeot-Hansen
Heat 3 Sweden Johan Kristoffersson
Volkswagen Team Sweden
Heat 4 Sweden Johan Kristoffersson
Volkswagen Team Sweden
Semi-Final Winners
Semi-Final 1 Finland Toomas Heikkinen
Marklund Motorsport
Semi-Final 2 Sweden Per-Gunnar Andersson
Marklund Motorsport
Final
First Finland Toomas Heikkinen
Marklund Motorsport
Second Norway Petter Solberg
SDRX
Third Latvia Reinis Nitišs
OlsbergsMSE

The 2015 World RX of Belgium was the 3rd round of the second season of the FIA World Rallycross Championship. The event was held at the Circuit Jules Tacheny Mettet in Mettet, Wallonia.

Marklund Motorsport driver Toomas Heikkinen became the third different winner in the 2015 season, having won his semi-final as well. Second place went to defending champion, and championship leader Petter Solberg (SDRX), while the podium was completed by Reinis Nitišs, driving for the OlsbergsMSE team.

In the supporting round of the FIA European Rallycross Championship, Albatec Racing driver Jérôme Grosset-Janin took the victory, to take the lead in the drivers' championship. Grosset-Janin finished ahead of Ole Christian Veiby while Tamás Kárai was the only other finisher as he completed the podium.

The infamous incident of the damper on Alx Danielsson's Audi S3 punching open the bonnet occurred during practice.


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