2008 Sidecarcross world championship

Sidecarcross world championship seasons
year = 2008
Grand_Prix = 12
start_date = 20 April
end_date = 28 September
season_champ = flagicon|NED Daniël Willemsen flagicon|Switzerland Reto Grütter
Sidecarcross_des_Nations= "competition ongoing"
previous = 2007
next = 2009

The 2008 FIM Sidecarcross world championship started on 20 April and finished after twelve race weekends on 14 September 2008. Daniël Willemsen and "Reto Grütter" were the defending champions, having won the title in 2007, and repeated this archivement in 2008

Overview

The 2008 season was the 29th edition of the sidcarcross world championship.

The twelve races of the season are held in ten countries, the Netherlands, Czech Republic, France (2x), Germany (2x), Croatia, Belgium, Latvia, Estonia, Ukraine and Denmark.

Format

Every Grand Prix weekend is split into two races, both held on the same day. This means, the 2008 season with its twelve Grand Prix has 24 races. Each race lasts for 30 minutes plus two rounds. The two races on a weekend actually get combined to determined an overall winner. While this overall winners receives no extra WC points, they usually are awarded a special trophy.

The first twenty teams of each race score competition points. The point system for the 2008 season is as follows [ [http://www.seitenwagen-motocross.de/ Ergebnisse: World Sidecarcross Championships 2007] ] :

Calendar

The calendar for the 2008 season [ [http://www.fim.ch/pdfs/Y2008_FIM_SynchroCalendar.pdf 2008 SYNCHRO CALENDAR - FIM CHAMPIONSHIPS & PRIZES] ] :
* The "Sidecarcross des Nations" in "Genk" on 28 September 2008 is a non-championship event but part of the calendar.
* Only "Kegums" and "Rudersberg" have been part of the 2007 race season, all other ten courses are new compare to last season.

eason table

The numbers for every team are allocated according to their 2007 season finish, meaning the world champion received number one and so on. The numbers for drivers not participating this season were not re-allocated. New entrys received a random number above the number 48 which is the last place archived by a driver in the points in 2007. This system makes it possible to see a drivers improvement or decline from last year by comparing number with position.

The following teams have taken part in races this season:

* Where there is only one flag shown, it indicates driver and passenger are from the same country.
* Placings below the first twenty not shown.
* Teams who took part in the qualifying but failed to qualify for a race are not shown.
* x denotes qualified for race but finished outside of points.
* "Passengers" in italics.
* Equipment is engine and frame.
* Daniël Willemsen used "Bruno Kaelin" as his passenger in the first two races.
* Jarno van den Boomen used "Guennady Auvrey" as his passenger in race one and two, "Premysl Novotny" in race three and four and "Sven Verbrugge" in race five and six.
* Thijs Derks used "Tom van Duijnhoven" as his passenger in race one and two.
* Nicky Pulinx used "Sven Verbrugge" as his passenger in race one to four.
* Stuart Brown used "Wilfreid Keuben" as his passenger in race one and two and "Colin Dunkley" in race seven to ten.
* Patrick Greup used "Jimmy van Gennip" as his passenger in race one and two.
* Martin Walter used "Thomas Weinmann" as his passenger in race 23 and 24.
* Only 30 teams registered in time for the Jinin race, therefore every team qualified for the race [ [http://www.mx247.com/home/results/sidecarcross/worldscarx2/worldscarx2.html Results from the Jinin race] mx247.com, accessed: 13 May 2008] .
* ¹ In race fourteen of the season, the team Willemsen/"Grütter" was disqaulified due to Grütter losing a glove, after a protest by Kristers Sergis. The lost glove disabled the emergency-stop system of the bike, which is a break of FIM rules. [ [http://www.teamwillemsen.com/stichtingwillemsen/newsview.php?nieuwscategorie_id=1&nieuwsitem_id=216 Team Willemsen website - No points in second heat GP Germanie?!] (in Dutch) accessed: 5 August 2008]
* ² In race twenty of the season, the team Sergis/"Stupelis" was disqualified after winning the race due to the team mechanic refusing an inspection of the bike. The bike supposingly did not comply with noise level regualtions. [ [http://www.mx247.com/home/results/sidecarcross/worldscarx10/worldscarx10.html mx247.com - Estonia race] accessed: 19 August 2008]

External links

* [http://www.sidecarcross-action.de www.sidecarcross-action.de Results Lists Photos Viedeos Race-reports, next Events and many more about the Sidecarcross Worldchampionship]
* [http://www.fim.ch/en/default.asp The official "FIM" website]
* [http://www.sidecarcross.de/home/home.htm Sidcarcross.de with results and dates for the 2008 season (in German)]

ources

* [http://www.sidecarcross.com/ The World Championship on Sidecarcross.com]
* [http://www.seitenwagen-motocross.de/ "Seitenwagen-Motocross" website with pictures and results (in German)]
* [http://www.thejohndaveypages.org/JD_GP/JD_GP___Index.htm The John Davey Grand Prix Pages - Results of all GP's up until 2005]
* [http://www.mx247.com/home/results/sidecarcross/sidecarcross.html MX247-Motocross website with sidecarcross results]
* [http://www.fim.ch/EN/results/resDisplay.asp?CpsID=MXCMSID&ClassID=MX_Main&CpsSeasonYear=2008&sDisplay=short&item=17 Official "FIM" website with the 2008 results]

References