Speed profits a sf oust has a torrid event

Scott Speed won the third round of the Americas Rallycross Championship at Trois-rivieres to increase his lead in the standings over Volkswagen Andretti teammate Tanner Foust.

Foust had crashed out heavily in Q2 while trying to pass Ken Block at Turn 2 and then retired from Q3 with collapsed front suspension.

From the second row of the grid in the final, Foust passed Block into Turn 1 and then followed Speed until his lap five joker.

Speed then took his joker on lap six and maintained the lead to win his second round in a row. Block completed the podium in a revised version of the Ford Focus RS RX he raced in World RX in 2016 and 2017.

Patrik Sandell finished best of the Subaru runners in fourth, ahead of fellow former WRC driver Chris Atkinson. Jacques Villeneuve made his return to rallycross with the Vermont Sportscar-run Subaru team but struggled before retiring from the semi-finals with technical issues. British driver Oliver Bennett also retired in the semi-finals.

American Conner Martell came close to winning every support category final of the weekend in a double-header for ARX2 and the Canadian RX2 round, which both use Supercar Lites machines.

He won the two ARX2 finals from Christian Brooks and challenged eventual RX2 winner Oliver Eriksson for the lead of the final but hit the tyre wall on the inside of Turn 5 and retired. Guillaume De Ridder and Cole Keatts made it an Olsbergsmse podium lock-out.