Marcel Willemsen

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Marcel Willemsen
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Nationality	Netherlands
Date of birth	May 28, 1977 (1977-05-28) (age 31)
Place of birth	Lochem, Netherlands


Website	Marcel Willemsens official website
Sidecarcross record
Bike number	17
World championships	1999
Race starts	176
Race Wins	26
Podium finishes	47
Championship Points	1741
2007 Championship position	17th (82pts)

Marcel Willemsen (Lochem, 28 May 1977) is a Dutch sidecarcross passenger and 1999 world champion.

Marcel won the 1999 world championship as the passenger for his older brother, the six times world champion Daniël Willemsen. After this, he left his brothers team and started racing as a sidecarcross driver himself, competing in the Dutch and the world championship.

Willemsen is married and has three children, living in Lochem. He has announced, that 2008 will be his last season as a GP rider, retiring from the international competition^[1].

1 Sidecarcross world championship results
- 1.1 Season by season
2 Dutch championship
3 External links
4 Sources
5 References

[edit] Sidecarcross world championship results

Marcel started racing with his brother Daniël in the world championship in 1995. As a passenger, his first world championship race was the Dutch GP in Markelo on 24 September 1995, which is the only one he raced in that season. The two brothers quickly improved and the next season saw their first win, at the French GP in Baugé on 12 May 1996. From season to season they improved, culminating in a one-point win of the world championship in 1999. After this, Marcel left his brothers team.

He returned to the sicecarcross world championship in 2001, now as a driver, with his countryman Rene Boon as passenger. Marcel could however not archive the same success there as he had with his brother, a tenth overall finish in 2006 being his strongest season result. Three fifth place finishes in races were his best results in individual events. The 2008 season, now with his German passenger Marco Godau, will be his last as an international rider, but he may continue to race in the Dutch championship were his showings have been much stronger over the years.

[edit] Season by season

Season	Team	Equipment	Position	Points	Races	Wins	Second	Third
1995	Daniël Willemsen / Marcel Willemsen	Honda-EML	25	10	2	—	—	—
1996	Daniël Willemsen / Marcel Willemsen	Zabel-EML	12	82	16	2	—	—
1997	Daniël Willemsen / Marcel Willemsen	Zabel-BSU	3	231	14	5	4	2
1998	Daniël Willemsen / Marcel Willemsen	Zabel-BSU	2	279	18	6	7	2
1999	Daniël Willemsen / Marcel Willemsen	Zabel-BSU	1	386	24	13	5	1

2001	Marcel Willemsen / Rene Boon		19	44	14	—	—	—
2002	Marcel Willemsen / Rene Boon	Zabel-VMC	16	144	26	—	—	—
2003	Marcel Willemsen / Rene Boon	KTM-VMC	32	33	8	—	—	—
2004	Marcel Willemsen / Rene Boon	KTM-VMC	13	181	8	—	—	—
2004	Marcel Willemsen / Harolds Kurpnicks	KTM-VMC	13	10	2	—	—	—
2005	Marcel Willemsen / Bart Notten	KTM-VMC	13	132	18	—	—	—
2006	Marcel Willemsen / Bjorn Roes	Zabel-VMC	10	137	12	—	—	—
2007	Marcel Willemsen / Marco Godau	Zabel-BSU	17	82	16	—	—	—
2008	Marcel Willemsen / Marco Godau	Zabel-WSP	7 *	85	8	—	—	—
	Overall 1995 - 2007			1741	176	26	16	5

Source:The John Davey Pages - Marcel Willemsen (passenger). John Davey. Retrieved on 2008-04-16.

Source:The John Davey Pages - Marcel Willemsen (driver). John Davey. Retrieved on 2008-04-16.

Passengers in italics.
* denotes season in progress (as of 25 May 2008).

[edit] Dutch championship

Marcel Willemsens results in the overall standings as a driver in the Dutch sidecarcross championship (Dutch:Zijspan Open Nederlands Kampioenschap - ONK) are:

2001: 7th
2002: 7th
2003: 4th
2004: 4th
2005: 2nd
2006: 3rd
2007: 3rd
2008: