2010 Sidecarcross World Championship
The 2010 FIM Sidecarcross World Championship started on 5 April and will finish after fourteen race weekends on 12 September 2010.[1]
The defending champions are Joris Hendrickx from Belgium and Kaspars Liepins from Latvia.
Overview
The 2010 season will be the 31st edition of the sidecarcross world championship. The defending champions will be Joris Hendrickx and Kaspars Liepins.
The fourteen races of the season will be held in twelve countries, Netherlands, Great Britain, France, Italy, Poland, Ukraine, Belgium, Germany, Estonia, Latvia, Russia and Denmark. It will be the first time since 2001, that the championship will return to Great Britain. Italy was last on the calendar in 2008, the other ten countries all hosted races in 2009, too. The Swiss GP, which was held for the first time since 2001 in 2009, was again dropped from the schedule.[2]
Calendar
The calendar for the 2010 season:[1]
| Date | Place | Race | Winner Race 1 | Winner Race 2 | Overall GP winner | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 April |  Oldebroek
|
1 + 2 | Daniël Willemsen
Gertie Eggink |
Daniël Willemsen
Gertie Eggink |
Daniël Willemsen
Gertie Eggink |
Result |
| 18 April |  Langrish
|
3 + 4 |  Maris Rupeiks /
|
 Joris Hendrickx /
|
Maris Rupeiks /
Kaspars Stupelis |
Result |
| 2 May |  Plomion
|
5 + 6 | ||||
| 16 May |  Cingoli
|
7 + 8 | ||||
| 6 June |  Wschowa
|
9 + 10 | ||||
| 13 June |  Chernivtsi
|
11 + 12 | ||||
| 4 July | Genk
|
13 + 14 | ||||
| 11 July |  Reutlingen
|
15 + 16 | ||||
| 18 July | Saint-Mamet
|
17 + 18 | ||||
| 1 August |  Kiviõli
|
19 + 20 | ||||
| 8 August | Ķegums
|
21 + 22 | ||||
| 15 August |  Penza
|
23 + 24 | ||||
| 5 September |  Slagelse
|
25 + 26 | ||||
| 12 September | Rudersberg
|
27 + 28 | ||||
| N/A | ||||||
- The Sidecarcross des Nations is a non-championship event but part of the calendar and is denoted by a light blue background in the table above.
Top ten
As of 20 April 2010
| Driver / Passenger | Equipment | No. | Points | GP wins | GP 2nd | GP 3rd | Race wins | Race 2nd | Race 3rd | |
| 1 | Daniël Willemsen / Gertie Eggink
|
Zabel-WSP | 111 | 90 | 1 | — | — | 2 | — | 2 |
| 2 | Maris Rupeiks / Kaspars Stupelis
|
7 | 87 | 1 | 1 | — | 1 | 2 | — | |
| 3 | Jan Hendrickx / Tim Smeuninx
|
KTM-VMC | 2 | 71 | — | — | 1 | — | 1 | — |
| 4 | Joris Hendrickx / Kaspars Liepins
|
KTM-VMC | 1 | 70 | — | 1 | — | 1 | — | — |
| 5 | Ben Adriaenssen / Kenny van Gaalen
|
KTM-VMC | 18 | 64 | — | — | 1 | — | — | 2 |
| 6 | Janis Daiders / Lauris Daiders
|
KTM-VMC | 3 | 58 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 7 | Etienne Bax / Ben van den Boogaert
|
Zabel-EML | 8 | 57 | — | — | — | — | 1 | — |
| 8 | Baptiste Bigand / Julien Bigand
|
Zabel-VMC | 33 | 52 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 9 | Stuart Brown / Luke Peters
|
Husaberg-MEFO | 9 | 50 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 10 | Daniel Millard / Joe Millard
|
17 | 36 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
- Equipment listed is motor and frame.
References
- ^ a b FIM Sidecarcross World Championship – 2010 Calendar FIM website, accessed: 30 October 2009
- ^ Sidecarcross GP Destinations