2007 Sidecarcross world championship
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The 2007 FIM
Sidecarcross world championship,the 28th edition of the competition, started on 9 April and finished after eight race weekends on 16 September 2007 with Daniël Willemsen
taking out the title once more
from Switzerland
. The team absolutely dominated the season, winning fifteen out of the sixteen races, of those, the first twelve in a row. Despite this, their winning margin of 89 points was not a new record, this is still held by Kristers Sergis / Artis Rasmanis with 168, set in 2002, however, in a 28 race season. The only race the world champion didn't win, number 13, they team finished outside the points on 24th rank. Second placed Jan Hendrickx / Tim Smeuninx did not win a race all season but nine podium finishes and the fact that the team saw the final flag in all races put them well ahead of place three. Kristers Sergis
, five times world champion, came third in the 2007 season, with eight second places and a win to his name, in their home GP. Apart from this performances, his results were not strong enough for a sixth title.
The eight races of the season were held in six countries, France
, Germany
, Croatia
, Belgium
, Latvia
and the Netherlands
.
The first twenty teams of each race scored competition points, allocated accordingly to the following system:>
The sixteen race events finished as follows and resulted in this final table:
(630cc) and Zabel (685cc). In the 2007 season, four out of the top-five used a VMC frame, including the world champion. Zabel provided the engines to the world champion and the runner-up. The only other engines found in the top ten were KTM
and JAWA.
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Sidecarcross world championship,the 28th edition of the competition, started on 9 April and finished after eight race weekends on 16 September 2007 with Daniël Willemsen
Daniël Willemsen
Daniël Johan Nico Willemsen is a Dutch sidecarcross rider and eight times World Champion.Willemsen is the most successful rider in sidecarcross history, winning the title nine times, in 1999, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010 and 2011...
taking out the title once more
Overview
The 2007 season was the 28th edition of the sidcarcross world championship. It resulted in a record sixth world championship for Daniël Willemsen, his fifth in a row, but the first with his new passenger Reto GrütterReto Grütter
Reto Elias Grütter is a Swiss sidecarcross passenger and the 2007 and 2008 Sidecarcross World Champion.Reto Grütter's name can sometimes be found to be, wrongfully, spelled Reto Grutter.- Sidecarcross world championship results :...
from Switzerland
Switzerland
Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....
. The team absolutely dominated the season, winning fifteen out of the sixteen races, of those, the first twelve in a row. Despite this, their winning margin of 89 points was not a new record, this is still held by Kristers Sergis / Artis Rasmanis with 168, set in 2002, however, in a 28 race season. The only race the world champion didn't win, number 13, they team finished outside the points on 24th rank. Second placed Jan Hendrickx / Tim Smeuninx did not win a race all season but nine podium finishes and the fact that the team saw the final flag in all races put them well ahead of place three. Kristers Sergis
Kristers Sergis
Kristers Serģis is a retired Latvian sidecarcross rider and five times World Champion.Kristers Serģis came to the sidecarcross sport through his father, himself a rider in the days of the Soviet Union. He made it possible for his son to take up the sport after Latvian independence in 1990...
, five times world champion, came third in the 2007 season, with eight second places and a win to his name, in their home GP. Apart from this performances, his results were not strong enough for a sixth title.
The eight races of the season were held in six countries, France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
, Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
, Croatia
Croatia
Croatia , officially the Republic of Croatia , is a unitary democratic parliamentary republic in Europe at the crossroads of the Mitteleuropa, the Balkans, and the Mediterranean. Its capital and largest city is Zagreb. The country is divided into 20 counties and the city of Zagreb. Croatia covers ...
, Belgium
Belgium
Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...
, Latvia
Latvia
Latvia , officially the Republic of Latvia , is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by Estonia , to the south by Lithuania , to the east by the Russian Federation , to the southeast by Belarus and shares maritime borders to the west with Sweden...
and the Netherlands
Netherlands
The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...
.
Format
Every Grand Prix weekend is split into two races, both held on the same day. This means, the 2007 season with its eight Grand Prix had sixteen races. Each race is currently 30 minutes plus 2 rounds long. The 2007 season had 60 teams registered but not all of them raced in every event. Teams go through a qualifying, usually on Saturday. Typically, around 50 teams compete for 30 spots on the starting grid, meaning around 20 teams miss out on the race altogether. Some teams did not actually get a race start all season, failing in qualifying each time. All up, 48 of those teams gained competition points. Only three teams qualified but never scored any points. About fifteen teams never archived to get above the cut.The first twenty teams of each race scored competition points, allocated accordingly to the following system:
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Calendar
The 2007 season had the same amount of races as in the previous year, however, only half the races were held in the same locations as in 2006. The countries hosting GP's however had not changed:| Date | Place | Race winners | GP winner |
| 9 April |  OldebroekOldebroek Oldebroek is a municipality and a town in the eastern Netherlands and it has almost 6000 inhabitants.-Population centres:Bovenveen, Eekt, Hattemerbroek, Kerkdorp, 't Loo, Mullegen, Noordeinde, Oldebroek, Oosterwolde, Posthoorn, Voskuil and Wezep.-Sport:... |
Daniël Willemsen Daniël Willemsen Daniël Johan Nico Willemsen is a Dutch sidecarcross rider and eight times World Champion.Willemsen is the most successful rider in sidecarcross history, winning the title nine times, in 1999, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010 and 2011... /  Reto GrutterReto Grütter Reto Elias Grütter is a Swiss sidecarcross passenger and the 2007 and 2008 Sidecarcross World Champion.Reto Grütter's name can sometimes be found to be, wrongfully, spelled Reto Grutter.- Sidecarcross world championship results :... |
Daniël Willemsen / Reto Grutter |
| Daniël Willemsen / Reto Grutter |
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| 29 April |  PlomionPlomion Plomion is a commune in the Aisne department in Picardy in northern France.-Population:-Sport:Plomion has been host to the French Sidecarcross Grand Prix in the past and will be hosting it again in 2010, on 2 May.... |
Daniël Willemsen / Reto Grutter |
Daniël Willemsen / Reto Grutter |
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| 6 May |  ZabokZabok Zabok is a town and municipality situated in northwest Croatia in the Krapina-Zagorje County. It has a total population of 9,365 . Zabok is situated on the main crossroads in the heart of Hrvatsko zagorje region... |
Daniël Willemsen / Reto Grutter |
Daniël Willemsen / Reto Grutter |
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| 13 May | Baugé Baugé Baugé is a commune in the Maine-et-Loire department in western France.-Geography and transport:Baugé is located 40 km east of Angers, 280 km from Paris, and 70 km from Tours.... |
Daniël Willemsen / Reto Grutter |
Daniël Willemsen / Reto Grutter |
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| 17 June |  JauerJauer Jauer may refer to:* German name of Jawor, a town in Poland** Jauer , a former Principality of the Holy Roman Empire, now part of Poland*** Nicholas Magni of Jauer *** Bolko I, Duke of Schweidnitz-Jauer... |
Daniël Willemsen / Reto Grutter |
Daniël Willemsen / Reto Grutter |
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| 22 June |  NeeroeterenMaaseik Maaseik is a municipality located in the Belgian province of Limburg. The city is located on the river Meuse , bordering the Netherlands. The Maaseik municipality includes the town of Maaseik and the villages of Neeroeteren and Opoeteren... |
Daniël Willemsen / Reto Grutter |
Daniël Willemsen / Reto Grutter |
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| 12 August |  KegumsKegums -Sport:Ķegums has been host to the Latvian Sidecarcross Grand Prix numerous times and will be hosting it again in 2010, on 8 August.In the 2009, Ķegums also hosted the Latvian Motocross Grand Prix.-See also:*List of cities in Latvia... |
Kristers Sergis Kristers Sergis Kristers Serģis is a retired Latvian sidecarcross rider and five times World Champion.Kristers Serģis came to the sidecarcross sport through his father, himself a rider in the days of the Soviet Union. He made it possible for his son to take up the sport after Latvian independence in 1990... / Kaspars Stupelis Kaspars Stupelis Kaspars Stupelis is a Latvian sidecarcross passenger and double World Champion.As of 2008, he is part of the Team Serģis, operated by five times world champion Kristers Serģis. However, his two world championships were gained when being the passenger in Daniël Willemsen's team... |
Kristers Sergis / Kaspars Stupelis |
| Daniël Willemsen / Reto Grutter |
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| 16 September | Rudersberg Rudersberg Rudersberg is a municipality in the Rems-Murr district, in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is located 10 km southeast of Backnang, and 28 km northeast of Stuttgart.-Sport:... |
Daniël Willemsen / Reto Grutter |
Daniël Willemsen / Reto Grutter |
| Daniël Willemsen / Reto Grutter |
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| 23 September |  SlagelseSlagelse Slagelse, a town in east Denmark, is in Slagelse municipality on the island of Zealand. It is about 100 km southwest of Copenhagen. The population is 31,979 .... |
Latvia Latvia Latvia , officially the Republic of Latvia , is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by Estonia , to the south by Lithuania , to the east by the Russian Federation , to the southeast by Belarus and shares maritime borders to the west with Sweden... |
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- The Sidecarcross des Nations in Slagelse on 23 September 2007 is a non-championship event but part of the calendar and is denoted by a light blue background in the table above.
- Passengers in italics.
Riders
The top ten of the 2007 season:| Position | Driver / Passenger | Equipment | Points | Wins | Second | Third |
| 1 | Daniël Willemsen Daniël Willemsen Daniël Johan Nico Willemsen is a Dutch sidecarcross rider and eight times World Champion.Willemsen is the most successful rider in sidecarcross history, winning the title nine times, in 1999, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010 and 2011... / Reto GrütterReto Grütter Reto Elias Grütter is a Swiss sidecarcross passenger and the 2007 and 2008 Sidecarcross World Champion.Reto Grütter's name can sometimes be found to be, wrongfully, spelled Reto Grutter.- Sidecarcross world championship results :... |
Zabel-VMC Vruwink MotorCycles The Vruwink MotorCycles company, short VMC, is a Dutch Sidecarcross frame manufacturer, having won eleven riders and six manufacturers world championships in this sport.-Company history:... |
375 | 15 | — | — |
| 2 | Jan Hendrickx / Tim Smeuninx |
Zabel-VMC | 286 | — | 2 | 7 |
| 3 | Kristers Sergis Kristers Sergis Kristers Serģis is a retired Latvian sidecarcross rider and five times World Champion.Kristers Serģis came to the sidecarcross sport through his father, himself a rider in the days of the Soviet Union. He made it possible for his son to take up the sport after Latvian independence in 1990... / Kaspars Stupelis Kaspars Stupelis Kaspars Stupelis is a Latvian sidecarcross passenger and double World Champion.As of 2008, he is part of the Team Serģis, operated by five times world champion Kristers Serģis. However, his two world championships were gained when being the passenger in Daniël Willemsen's team... |
KTM-Mefo | 242 | 1 | 8 | 1 |
| 4 | Andy Burgler / Martin Betschart |
KTM-VMC | 196 | — | — | 2 |
| 5 |  Vaclav Rozehnal / Marek Rozehnal |
Zabel-VMC | 191 | — | — | — |
| 6 | Maris Rupeiks / Haralds Kurpnieks |
KTM-AYR | 184 | — | 4 | 1 |
| 7 | Marco Happich / Meinrad Schelbert |
Zabel-VMC | 180 | — | 1 | 1 |
| 8 | Joris Hendrickx Joris Hendrickx Joris Hendrickx is a Belgian sidecarcross rider and the 2009 World Champion, together with his passenger, the Latvian Kaspars Liepiņš.... / Eli Piccart |
KTM-AYR | 177 | — | — | 1 |
| 9 | Tomas Cermak / Ondrej Cermak |
JAWA-Mefo | 153 | — | — | — |
| 10 | Janis Daiders / Lauris Daiders |
KTM-AYR | 148 | — | — | — |
- Equipment listed is motor and frame.
Race by race statistics
The numbers for every team are allocated according to their 2006 season finish, meaning the world champion received number one and so on. The numbers for drivers not participating this season were not re-allocated, for example number 16 was not used as Uli Müller who finished 16th in 2006 had retired. New entrys received a random number. In the last season, 50 teams finished with points in the overall table, every number above this is therefore a new entry or has not scored points the previous year., the exception being the numbers 68 and 116 who should have been numbers 13 and 21. This system makes it possible to see a drivers improvement or decline from last year by comparing number with position.The sixteen race events finished as follows and resulted in this final table:
| P | Driver / Passenger | Equipment | No. | Points | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 |
| 1 | Daniël Willemsen Daniël Willemsen Daniël Johan Nico Willemsen is a Dutch sidecarcross rider and eight times World Champion.Willemsen is the most successful rider in sidecarcross history, winning the title nine times, in 1999, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010 and 2011... / Reto GrütterReto Grütter Reto Elias Grütter is a Swiss sidecarcross passenger and the 2007 and 2008 Sidecarcross World Champion.Reto Grütter's name can sometimes be found to be, wrongfully, spelled Reto Grutter.- Sidecarcross world championship results :... |
Zabel-VMC Vruwink MotorCycles The Vruwink MotorCycles company, short VMC, is a Dutch Sidecarcross frame manufacturer, having won eleven riders and six manufacturers world championships in this sport.-Company history:... |
1 | 375 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | x | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 2 | Jan Hendrickx / Tim Smeuninx |
Zabel-VMC | 5 | 286 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 11 | 9 |
| 3 | Kristers Sergis Kristers Sergis Kristers Serģis is a retired Latvian sidecarcross rider and five times World Champion.Kristers Serģis came to the sidecarcross sport through his father, himself a rider in the days of the Soviet Union. He made it possible for his son to take up the sport after Latvian independence in 1990... / Kaspars Stupelis Kaspars Stupelis Kaspars Stupelis is a Latvian sidecarcross passenger and double World Champion.As of 2008, he is part of the Team Serģis, operated by five times world champion Kristers Serģis. However, his two world championships were gained when being the passenger in Daniël Willemsen's team... |
KTM KTM KTM Sportmotorcycle AG is an Austrian motorcycle, bicycle and moped manufacturer.The company was founded in 1934 by engineer Hans Trunkenpolz in Mattighofen. It started out as a metal working shop and was named Kraftfahrzeuge Trunkenpolz Mattighofen... -MEFO |
19 | 242 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 2 | x | 3 | 2 | 2 | 11 | x | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | x | x |
| 4 | Andy Burgler / Martin Betschart |
KTM-VMC | 6 | 196 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 5 | 4 | 13 | 20 | 10 | x | x | 8 | 5 | 4 | 8 | 4 | 8 |
| 5 | Vaclav Rozehnal / Marek Rozehnal |
Zabel-VMC | 9 | 191 | x | 12 | 7 | 14 | 8 | 15 | 14 | 7 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 5 | x | 5 |
| 6 | Maris Rupeiks / Haralds Kurpnieks |
KTM-AYR AYR AYR is an Estonian Sidecarcross frame manufacturer, competing in the sports world championship.The most prominent team in the 2008 world championship to use an AYR frame is the former world champions Kristers Sergis / Kaspars Stupelis. AYR has yet to win a world championship.-History:The company... |
4 | 184 | 6 | 10 | x | x | 2 | 2 | 4 | x | 12 | x | 7 | x | 2 | 3 | 5 | 2 |
| 7 | Marco Happich / Meinrad Schelbert |
Zabel-VMC | 3 | 180 | 5 | x | 5 | 4 | 11 | 10 | 6 | x | 6 | 3 | 14 | 6 | x | 6 | 2 | x |
| 8 | Joris Hendrickx Joris Hendrickx Joris Hendrickx is a Belgian sidecarcross rider and the 2009 World Champion, together with his passenger, the Latvian Kaspars Liepiņš.... / Eli Piccart |
KTM-AYR | 7 | 177 | x | 14 | 12 | 7 | 14 | 14 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 12 | 5 | 8 | 12 | 10 | 6 | 7 |
| 9 | Tomas Cermak / Ondrej Cermak |
JAWA-MEFO | 18 | 153 | x | x | 4 | 6 | 10 | 5 | 13 | x | 10 | 4 | 10 | 13 | 11 | 14 | 10 | 12 |
| 10 | Janis Daiders / Lauris Daiders |
KTM-AYR | 12 | 148 | 11 | x | 11 | 9 | 15 | 6 | 12 | 19 | 8 | 8 | 9 | 7 | x | 7 | x | 4 |
| 11 |  Henrik Söderqvist / Tobias Sylwan |
Husaberg Husaberg Husaberg is a manufacturer of off-road and supermoto four-stroke and two-stroke motorcycles. Husaberg motorcycles are known for their larger displacement engines and for their race-oriented construction... -AYR |
23 | 139 | 4 | 5 | 6 | x | 5 | x | 9 | 4 | x | 2 | 19 | 3 | ||||
| 12 | Carlo van Duijnhoven / Christian Verhagen |
Zabel-VMC | 15 | 124 | 19 | 16 | x | 16 | 7 | 16 | 7 | 16 | 16 | 10 | 11 | x | 8 | 9 | 9 | 11 |
| 13 | John Watson / Mark Watson | Zabel-VMC | 20 | 116 | x | 6 | x | x | 13 | 11 | 5 | x | 5 | 5 | x | x | 3 | 6 | ||
| 14 | Nicky Pulinx / Ludo Somers |
KTM-AYR | 116 | 95 | 9 | 7 | 8 | 10 | 9 | 4 | x | 6 | x | x | x | x | ||||
| 15 | Martin Walter / Andre Saam |
Zabel-VMC | 22 | 95 | 15 | 20 | 12 | 12 | 18 | 14 | 13 | 11 | 17 | 19 | 7 | 11 | x | 10 | ||
| 16 | Jarno van den Boomen / Henry van de Wiel |
Zabel-VMC | 14 | 91 | 7 | 13 | x | x | 6 | 7 | 15 | 8 | 19 | 13 | ||||||
| 17 | Marcel Willemsen Marcel Willemsen Marcel Willemsen is a Dutch sidecarcross passenger and 1999 World Champion.Marcel won the 1999 world championship as the passenger for his older brother, the seven times world champion Daniël Willemsen... / Marco Godau |
Zabel-BSU | 10 | 82 | 14 | 11 | x | x | 19 | x | x | x | 9 | x | x | 9 | 6 | 13 | 12 | 14 |
| 18 |  Evgeny Scherbinin / Sergei Sosnovskikh |
MTH MTH Racing engines MTH racing engines are two-stroke lightweight engines, built by an Austrian company, MTH. They are used in motocross sidecars and ultra lightweight aeroplanes.... -MEFO |
2 | 62 | 8 | 15 | x | x | x | x | 3 | 10 | 9 | x | ||||||
| 19 | Scott Wilkinson / Gary Burt | Zabel-VMC | 24 | 62 | x | x | 14 | 8 | x | 9 | x | 9 | x | 11 | x | 13 | ||||
| 20 |  Bertram Martin / Bruna Kaelin |
Zabel-VMC | 68 | 53 | 18 | x | 9 | 13 | x | 8 | x | 18 | 7 | x | x | x | x | x | ||
| 21 | Etienne Bax / Marc van Deutekom |
Zabel-VMC | 51 | 52 | x | x | 16 | 12 | 17 | 20 | 16 | 13 | 15 | 15 | x | x | 14 | x | ||
| 22 | Marcel Grondman / Alfons Eggers |
Zabel-VMC | 33 | 46 | 12 | 8 | 8 | x | 14 | 20 | 19 | x | ||||||||
| 23 | Thomas Morch / Marius Strauss |
Zabel-BSU | 75 | 38 | 18 | 19 | 14 | 15 | 8 | 15 | ||||||||||
| 24 | Stuart Brown / Luke Peters | Zabel-VMC | 8 | 35 | 13 | 9 | 15 | 15 | x | 18 | x | x | ||||||||
| 25 | Geert Devoldere / Edouard Chereau |
Husaberg | 30 | 35 | 17 | x | 17 | x | x | x | x | x | x | 14 | 18 | 17 | x | 16 | 17 | 17 |
| 26 | John Lyne / Pete Girling | Zabel-VMC | 26 | 30 | x | x | 20 | 19 | x | x | x | x | 10 | 12 | 16 | 19 | ||||
| 27 | Thijs Derks / Roy Derks |
Husaberg-BSU | 28 | 27 | x | 19 | 19 | 16 | x | x | x | 15 | x | 16 | 15 | 20 | 20 | x | x | x |
| 28 | Andreas Clohse / Phillipe Schmidt |
Zabel-VMC | 32 | 26 | x | 14 | 13 | x | 15 | 16 | ||||||||||
| 29 | Steffan Metz / Billy Hilpert |
KTM-AYR | 83 | 23 | 17 | 12 | 12 | |||||||||||||
| 30 | Josef Brustmann / Philip Schmidt |
JF-NMP | 11 | 23 | 16 | 17 | 7 | x | ||||||||||||
| 31 | Lukas Cerny / Miroslav Vosmik |
JAWA-VMC | 98 | 20 | 17 | 18 | 20 | 15 | 17 | x | 20 | x | ||||||||
| 32 | Werner Wittmann / Guennady Auvray |
KTM-NMP | 31 | 18 | x | x | 18 | x | 19 | 11 | 18 | x | ||||||||
| 33 | Kristof Santermans / Patrick Nieuwenhuizen |
Yamaha-SST | 25 | 17 | 20 | x | 10 | x | 16 | x | x | x | ||||||||
| 34 | Karlis Leimanis / Kaspars Liepins Kaspars Liepiņš Kaspars Liepiņš is a Latvian sidecarcross rider and the 2009 World Champion, won as the passenger of the Belgian Joris Hendrickx.-Sidecarcross results:... |
KTM-AYR | 66 | 17 | x | 18 | 20 | x | 16 | x | 17 | 17 | ||||||||
| 35 | Baptiste Bigand / Julien Bigand |
MTH-BSU | 43 | 14 | 13 | x | x | 17 | x | x | 20 | x | x | x | ||||||
| 36 | Andy Eastman / Steve Kirwin | MTH-VMC | 198 | 13 | x | 16 | 13 | x | ||||||||||||
| 37 | Jean Marie Ains / Bernard Jayet |
KTM-MEFO | 42 | 10 | 18 | 18 | x | x | x | 18 | x | 20 | ||||||||
| 38 |  Kert Varik / Erkki Koiv |
KTM-AYR | 131 | 9 | 15 | 18 | ||||||||||||||
| 39 | Jan Visscher / Jeroen Visscher |
Zabel-VMC | 135 | 9 | x | 12 | x | x | ||||||||||||
| 40 | Peter Steegmans / Dagwin Sabbe |
MTH-EML EML Sidecars The EML Sidecars company, short EML, is a Dutch Sidecarcross and Quad frame manufacturer, having won numerous worldchampionships in this sport.EML stands for Einmalig, meaning unique.-History:... |
200 | 8 | 13 | x | ||||||||||||||
| 41 | Gert Gordejev / Keit Kivaste |
KTM-AYR | 124 | 5 | 18 | 19 | ||||||||||||||
| 42 | Igor Rodionov / Dmitry Rodionov |
KTM-AYR | 62 | 5 | 15 | x | ||||||||||||||
| 43 | Peter Brussen / Bjorn Roes |
Zabel-VMC | 52 | 4 | x | 17 | ||||||||||||||
| 44 | Jürgen Blank / Rainer Semet |
Zabel-VMC | 84 | 3 | x | 18 | ||||||||||||||
| 45 | Michael Poirier / Bertrand Poirier |
KTM-VMC | 29 | 2 | x | 20 | x | 20 | ||||||||||||
| 46 | Oskars Liepins / Ilvars Amelkins |
KTM-AYR | 141 | 2 | 19 | x | ||||||||||||||
| 47 | Guillaume Martin / Francis Blanco |
Zabel-VMC | 110 | 2 | x | 19 | ||||||||||||||
| 48 | Argo Poldsaar / Tonu Hansar |
MTH-AYR | 177 | 1 | x | 20 | ||||||||||||||
| — | David Barat / Guennady Auvray |
101 | — | x | x | |||||||||||||||
| — | Wim Janssen / Henk Roenhorst |
36 | — | x | x | |||||||||||||||
| — | David Keane / Andy Heighes | 46 | — | x | x | |||||||||||||||
- Where there is only one flag shown, it indicates driver and passenger are from the same country.
- Placings below the first twenty not shown.
- Drivers who never qualified for any GP not shown.
- x denotes qualified for race but finished outside of points.
- Passengers in italics.
Manufacturers
The manufacturers of side car frames are very specialized companies, catering for a small market, but within this they are very well known. Engines can be large half litre off-the-line machines. However, specialized sidecar engines are available to, like the 2-stroke engines from MTHMTH Racing engines
MTH racing engines are two-stroke lightweight engines, built by an Austrian company, MTH. They are used in motocross sidecars and ultra lightweight aeroplanes....
(630cc) and Zabel (685cc). In the 2007 season, four out of the top-five used a VMC frame, including the world champion. Zabel provided the engines to the world champion and the runner-up. The only other engines found in the top ten were KTM
KTM
KTM Sportmotorcycle AG is an Austrian motorcycle, bicycle and moped manufacturer.The company was founded in 1934 by engineer Hans Trunkenpolz in Mattighofen. It started out as a metal working shop and was named Kraftfahrzeuge Trunkenpolz Mattighofen...
and JAWA.