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World RX of Catalunya

Rallycross event held in Spain

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 27, 2026
Entity authorityQ22909824 ↗
Source-derived summary

The World RX of Catalunya was a Rallycross event held in Spain for the FIA World Rallycross Championship. The event made its debut in the 2015 season, at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya in the town of Montmeló, Catalonia.

From 2015 to 2018, the event was called "World RX of Barcelona". From 2019 onwards, it's called "World RX of Catalunya".

Due to COVID-19 pandemic which affected the 2020 FIA World Rallycross Championship season calendar, the circuit hosted a double-header season finale. The first race was named as World RX of Pirineus-Barcelona 2030 as mark of support for Pyrenees-Barcelona bid for the 2030 Winter Olympics. The second race was held under World RX of Catalunya name.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “World RX of Catalunya” as rallycross event held in Spain. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA strong contextual entry point for chronology, institutions and public events when official records are distinguished from later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2015, 2018, 2019, 2020—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where World, Catalunya and Rallycross can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the history & society register because the source frames it as rallycross event held in Spain. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Chronology, provenance and viewpoint should be read together before a broad social or political interpretation is accepted. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 27, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q22909824. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2015, 2018, 2019 and 2020.

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This entry incorporates text from “World RX of Catalunya” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.