Ben Adriaenssen
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| Nationality | Belgium | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 27 January 1989 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bike number | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Website | Official website | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Ben Adriaenssen (born 27 January 1989)[1] is a Belgian sidecarcross rider and the 2013 World Champion, together with his Dutch passenger, Ben van den Bogaart.
In 2013 he also, for the first time, won the Belgian national sidecarcross championship.
Biography
Ben Adriaenssen began his sidecarcross career, with Dutch passenger Kenny van Gaalen by his side, in 2004, racing in the Netherlands in the competition of the Motorsport Organisatie Nederland, a Dutch amateur motorsport organisation.[2] In this organisation's competition the pair finished as champions in 2007 and 2008.[1]
In 2009 Adriaenssen and van Gaalen started competing at professional level, the World Championship as well as the Dutch national championship. In the later the pair came third in 2009.[1] The combination made their World Championship debut at the Swiss Grand Prix at Wohlen. They finished the season in 18th place overall with three sixth place finishes as their best race results.[3]
In the team's second World Championship campaign, in 2010, Adriaenssen and van Gaalen finished sixth overall, with a second place in the first race of the Danish Grand Prix as their best result.[4]
For 2011, Adriaenssen changed passengers, now racing with Guennady Auvray, and once more finishing sixth overall. With his new passenger he achieved his first ever race win, at the first race of the Latvian Grand Prix in August 2011.[5] In 2012 Adriaenssen raced with veteran passenger Sven Verbrugge at his side, which had won the World Championship in 2011 on the side of Daniël Willemsen. While Willemsen took out the World Championship in 2012 again, with Kenny van Gaalen as his passenger for parts of the season, Adriaenssen and Verbrugge came third in the standings. The combination was not able to win a race that season but came third on six occasions and scored points in every race of the season, never finishing lower than eighth.[6]
The 2013 season saw Adriaenssen once again change passengers, now riding with Ben van den Bogaart. The new team won the opening Grand Prix of the season at Frauenfeld, Switzerland and went on to win seven of the fourteen season Grand Prix as well as the World Championship, 97 points clear of runners-up Etienne Bax. Adriaenssen once more scored in every race of the season, something no other rider achieved in the competition in 2013.[7] The pair clinched the World Championship in the first race of the second last Grand Prix of the season, with the race, held at Rudersberg, Germany, heavily affected by bad weather.[8] Apart from the World Championship, Adriaenssen and van den Boogaart also took out the national Belgian championship.[1]
Sidecarcross results
Season by season
Ben Adriaenssen 's sidecarcross world championship statistics:
| Season | Passenger | Equipment | Position | Points | Races | GP Wins |
Race Wins |
Race Podiums |
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 |
| 2009 | Kenny van Gaalen | KTM-VMC | 18 | 108 | 14 | — | — | — | FRA – |
SWI 0–14 |
POL – |
UKR – |
NED 6–6 |
BEL 0–10 |
GER 6–13 |
DEN 0–0 |
LAT – |
RUS – |
EST – |
FRA 11–7 |
GER 16–13 |
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| 2010 | Kenny van Gaalen | KTM-VMC | 6 | 322 | 27 | — | — | 4 | NED 3–3 |
GBR 9–9 |
FRA 7–0 |
ITA 12–14 |
POL 5–3 |
UKR 12–7 |
BEL 0– |
GER 7–9 |
FRA 14–8 |
EST 0–12 |
LAT 8–20 |
RUS 5–5 |
DEN 7–6 |
GER 12–11 |
| 2011 | Guennady Auvray | KTM-VMC | 6 | 346 | 26 | — | 1 | 6 | NED 0–6 |
FRA 13–7 |
SWI 6–0 |
UKR 8–7 |
FRA 16–9 |
POL 7–8 |
BEL 3–0 |
GER 4–5 |
LAT 1–2 |
EST 0–5 |
RUS 3–4 |
DEN 3–2 |
GER 13–4 |
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| 2012 | Sven Verbrugge | KTM-WSP | 3 | 385 | 22 | — | — | 6 | FRA 3–4 |
NED 8–4 |
GER 6–5 |
CZE 5–3 |
BEL 3–3 |
FRA 6–4 |
EST 4–4 |
RUS 5–5 |
LAT 4–4 |
SWI 3–4 |
GER 3–7 |
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| 2013 | Ben van den Bogaart | KTM-WSP | 1 | 610 | 28 | 7 | 11 | 24 | SWI 1–1 |
UKR 3–2 |
GER 4–3 |
CZE 1–1 |
NED 1–1 |
BEL 3–1 |
FRA 2–7 |
GER 2–1 |
EST 2–2 |
LAT 2–2 |
SWI 2–1 |
FRA 2–1 |
GER 1–13 |
BEL 6–2 |
| 2014 | ITA – |
NED – |
FRA – |
UKR – |
CZE – |
SWI – |
BEL – |
GER – |
EST – |
LAT – |
SWI – |
BEL – |
FRA – |
GER – | ||||||||
| Overall 2009 - 2013 | 1,771 | 117 | 7 | 12 | 40 | Source: FIM | ||||||||||||||||
Honours
World Championship
- Champions: (1) 2013
Belgium
- Champions: (1) 2013
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Ben Adriaenssen official website accessed: 14 October 2013
- ↑ MON website (Dutch) accessed: 14 October 2013
- ↑ 2009 Sidecarcross World Championship FIM website – Official results, accessed: 14 October 2013
- ↑ 2010 Sidecarcross World Championship FIM website – Official results, accessed: 14 October 2013
- ↑ 2011 Sidecarcross World Championship FIM website – Official results, accessed: 14 October 2013
- ↑ 2012 Sidecarcross World Championship FIM website – Official results, accessed: 14 October 2013
- ↑ 2013 Sidecarcross World Championship FIM website – Official results, accessed: 14 October 2013
- ↑ Schlammschlacht in Rudersberg (German) Hohenloher Tagblatt, published: 19 September 2013, accessed: 14 October 2013
External links
- Official website
- The World Championship on Sidecarcross.com
- The John Davey Grand Prix Pages – Results of all GP's up until 2005
| Sporting positions | ||
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| Preceded by Daniël Willemsen |
Sidecarcross World Champion 2013–present |
Incumbent |
| Preceded by Jan Hendrickx |
Belgian national sidecarcross champion 2013–present |
Incumbent |
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