Mattias Ekstrom continued his qualifying dominance in 2016 World Rallycross Championship events by finishing top of the Intermediate Classification for the third event in a row at Mettet in Belgium. Top at the end of day one, Ekstrom was fastest in Q3 to start on pole position in the last race of Q4. In the last qualifying race of the event, Ekstrom ran deep into the first corner off the start, alongside Sebastien Loeb, dropping to fifth in the race, where he would finish, but did enough to be top overall after the four qualifying races. In that same race, Petter Solberg made a poor start but as the rest of the pack ran deep into turn one the Norwegian found his way up the inside of Loeb...
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