2010 Sidecarcross World Championship

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The 2010 FIM Sidecarcross World Championship started on 5 April and will finish after fourteen race weekends on 12 September 2010.

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.

Calendar

The calendar for the 2010 season:

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 / Kaspars Stupelis	Joris Hendrickx / Kaspars Liepins	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	WSP	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	Husaberg-WMT	17	36	—	—	—	—	—	—

• Equipment listed is motor and frame.

2010 season races

Oldebroek, Netherlands

The top ten of the first Grand Prix of the 2010 season, held on Easter Monday, 5 April 2010, at Oldebroek in the Netherlands:

Top Ten Finishers
Pos.	Race 1				Race 2
	#	Team	Make		#	Team	Make
1	111	Daniël Willemsen / Gertie Eggink	Zabel-WSP		111	Daniël Willemsen / Gertie Eggink	Zabel-WSP
2	8	Etienne Bax / Ben van den Boogaert	Zabel-EML		7	Maris Rupeiks / Kaspars Stupelis	WSP
3	18	Ben Adriaenssen / Kenny van Gaalen	KTM-VMC		18	Ben Adriaenssen / Kenny van Gaalen	KTM-VMC
4	7	Maris Rupeiks / Kaspars Stupelis	WSP		2	Jan Hendrickx / Tim Smeuninx	KTM-VMC
5	24	Marcel Willemsen / Bruno Kaelin	Zabel-WSP		8	Etienne Bax / Ben van den Boogaert	Zabel-EML
6	1	Joris Hendrickx / Kaspars Liepins	KTM-VMC
7	3	Janis Daiders / Lauris Daiders	KTM-VMC
8	2	Jan Hendrickx / Tim Smeuninx	KTM-VMC		3	Janis Daiders / Lauris Daiders	KTM-VMC
9	33	Baptiste Bigand / Julien Bigand	Zabel-VMC		1	Joris Hendrickx / Kaspars Liepins	KTM-VMC
10					33	Baptiste Bigand / Julien Bigand	Zabel-VMC

Langrish, Great Britain

The top ten of the British Grand Prix, held at Langrish:

Top Ten Finishers
Pos.	Race 1				Race 2
	Bike #	Team	Make		Bike #	Team	Make
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10

External links

• The World Championship on Sidecarcross.com
• The John Davey Grand Prix Pages – Results of all GP's up until 2005
• FIM Sidecar Motocross World Championship 2010