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Main article: Sidecarcross world championship

The 2008 FIM Sidecarcross world championship starts on 20 April and finishes after twelve race weekends on 14 September 2008. Daniël Willemsen and Reto Grütter are the defending champions, having won the title in 2007.

Overview

The 2008 season is 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^[1]:

Calendar

The calendar for the 2008 season^[2]:

Date	Place	Race number	Winner Race 1	Winner Race 2	Overall GP winner
20 April	Oss	1 + 2	Kristers Sergis / Kaspars Stupelis	Jan Hendrickx / Tim Smeuninx	Jan Hendrickx / Tim Smeuninx
11 May	Jinín	3 + 4	Daniël Willemsen / Reto Grütter	Daniël Willemsen / Reto Grütter	Daniël Willemsen / Reto Grütter
18 May	Chernivtsi	5 + 6	Kristers Sergis / Kaspars Stupelis	Daniël Willemsen / Reto Grütter	Kristers Sergis / Kaspars Stupelis
1 June	Cingoli	7 + 8	Daniël Willemsen / Reto Grütter	Daniël Willemsen / Reto Grütter	Daniël Willemsen / Reto Grütter
8 June	Bourg-Bruche	9 + 10	Daniël Willemsen / Reto Grütter	Daniël Willemsen / Reto Grütter	Daniël Willemsen / Reto Grütter
13 July	Genk	11 + 12	Daniël Willemsen / Reto Grütter	Daniël Willemsen / Reto Grütter	Daniël Willemsen / Reto Grütter
20 July	Strassbessenbach	13 + 14	Daniël Willemsen / Reto Grütter	Daniël Willemsen / Reto Grütter	Daniël Willemsen / Reto Grütter
3 August	Slagelse	15 + 16
10 August	Kegums	17 + 18
17 August	Kivioli	19 + 20
7 September	Dardon Guegnon	21 + 22
14 September	Rudersberg	23 + 24
28 September	Genk *	N/A	not a championship event	not a championship event	not a championship event

• 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.

Season 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:

	Driver / Passenger	Equipment	No.	Points	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24
	Daniël Willemsen / Reto Grütter *	Zabel-VMC	1	331	5	3	1	1	3	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
	Kristers Sergis / Kaspars Stupelis	KTM-AYR	3	238	1	x	2	x	1	2	2	3	2	5	x	2	3	2
	Jan Hendrickx / Tim Smeuninx	Zabel-VMC	2	238	2	1	7	4	8	6	13	6	5	2	2	3	8	6
	Joris Hendrickx / Kaspars Liepins	KTM-AYR	8	238	3	7	3	5	2	7	5	4	8	4	3	4	12	3
	Marco Happich / Meinrad Schelbert	Zabel-MEFO	7	194	x	4	6	6	7	4	3	2	4	3	x	11	6	12
	Vaclav Rozehnal / Marek Rozehnal	Zabel-VMC	5	186	14	8	x	2	4	3	4	11	7	6	7	8	2	x
	Maris Rupeiks / Haralds Kurpnieks	KTM-AYR	6	164	12	x	4	8	12	5	7	x	12	7	4	7	5	7
	Etienne Bax / Marc van Deutekom	Zabel-VMC	21	151	4	x	8	10	x	12	8	8	6	10	8	15	10	4
	Nicky Pulinx / Ondrej Cermak *	Zabel-VMC	14	131	16	x	9	16	5	9	9	7	9	14	x	6	11	10
	Marcel Willemsen / Marco Godau	Zabel-VSP	17	129	10	11	5	7	9	8	12	x	x	18	9	10	15	9
	Janis Daiders / Lauris Daiders	KTM-AYR	10	116	19	12	11	x	6	11	6	x	x	9	6	x	4	11
	Eric Schrijver / Henry van de Wiel	MTH-VMC	101	108	6	5	19	x	14	14	19	14	11	12	12	16	9	14
	Thijs Derks / Gerti Eggink *	Husaberg-VMC	27	99	13	2	14	18	x	15	17	x	10	8	10	9	x	19
	Martin Walter / Andre Saam	Zabel-WSP	15	95	x	20	10	9	11	10	10	5	x	x	11	x	14	15
	Carlo van Duijnhoven / Christian Verhagen	Zabel-VMC	12	86	8	6	15	11	17	13	14	12	15	x	x	18	x	16
	Peter Steegmans / Dagwin Sabbe	Zabel-WSP	40	79	20	17					x	9			5	5	7	5
	Stuart Brown / Luke Peters *	Zabel-VMC	24	66	18	9					11	x	3	13	13	17	20	x
	Thomas Morch / Marius Strauss	Zabel-WSP	23	62			12	13	10	18	18	10	17	19	16	19	x	17
	Margo Sonn / Maarek Mill	KTM-AYR	103	40			16	14	15	16	20	20	19	15	14	x	x	x
	Lukas Cerny / Tomas Huml	JAWA-VMC	31	37			13	12	16	17			18	x	x	13	x	x
	Kristof Santermans / Ben van den Boggart	Zabel-WSP	33	36	x	16	x	x			15	19	x	17	15	12	17	x
	Jarno van den Boomen / Guennady Auvrey *	Zabel-VMC	16	35	11	x	17	15	13	x					x	14
	Andy Burgler / Daniel Fagerberg	KTM-VMC	4	31	9	10											13	x
	John Lyne / Pete Girling	Zabel-VMC	26	24	17	15					x	13	16	x	x	20
	Henrik Söderqvist / Tobias Sylwan	Husaberg-AYR	11	20			x	3
	Baptiste Bigand / Julien Bigand	Zabel-VMC	35	20	x	x					16	15	13	x	x	x	x	20
	Josua Luscher / Markus Gloor	Husaberg-VMC	87	20							x	17	20	11			19	18
	Josef Brustmann / Stefan Urich	KTM-NPM	29	18													16	8
	Jan Visscher / Jeroen Visscher	Zabel-VMC	38	14	7	x
	Bertram Martin / Bruno Kaelin	Zabel-VMC	68	13							x	x	x	16			x	13
	Andreas Clohse / Robbie Bax	JAWA-VMC	28	12							x	16	14	x			x	x
	Scott Wilkinson / Gary Burt	Zabel-VMC	19	11	x	14							x	x	17	x	x	x
	Wim Janssen / Bart Notten	Zabel-VMC	55	9	15	18
	Tomas Cermak / Ondrej Cermak	JAWA-MEFO	9	8	x	13
	Patrick Fagerberg / Daniel Fagerberg	KTM-AYR	122	7			18	17							x	x
	Daniel Millard / Joe Millard	Husaberg-WSP	99	6							x	18	x	x	18	x
	Gert Godejev / Keit Kivaste	KTM-AYR	151	6			20	19	18	x
	Jens Bochmann / Sandro Michelotto	KTM-VMC	69	5			x	x	19	x							18	x
	Dmitry Anochin / Maxim Scherbak	Zabel-MEFO	142	3					20	19
	Sonny Van Niewenhuse / Birger Beernaert	Husaberg-VMC	132	2											19	x
	Kert Varik / Erkki Koiv	KTM-AYR	39	2	x	19											x	x
	Urmas Sugasep / Veiko Parksepp	KTM-AYR	911	1											20	x
	Liutauras Variakois / Arturs Linters	KTM-AYR	57	1					x	20
	Anton Wanger / Michael Gabor	MTH-MEFO	52	1			x	20
	Gert van Werven / Rick Sellis	KTM-VMC	89	1									x	20
	Geert Devoldere / Edouard Chereau	Husaberg-MEFO	25	0	x	x			x	x	x	x
	Patrick Greup / Jimmy van Gennip	MTH-VMC	111	0	x	x
	Johan Smit / Peter Holleman	Zabel-BSU	115	0	x	x	x	x
	Romas Kisunas / Mantes Kisunas	Zabel-BSU	60	0			x	x
	Willi Lieble / Vaclav Hotovy	MEFO	65	0			x	x
	Sonnie Folkesson / Mattias Andersson	MTH-MEFO	172	0			x	x
	Jaroslav Kriz / Milan Gazik	MTH-EML	112	0			x	x
	Andre Michel Bernard / Jacques Pillier	VMC	82	0					x	x
	Vadim Briuhov / Vitaly Babic	Zabel	84	0					x	x
	Vasy Kolisnichenko / Dmitro Sorokin	BSU	83	0					x	x
	Sergei Ivanov / Atho Jalas	AYR	53	0					x	x
	Oleg Kuklin / Vasyl Nesterenko	MEFO	85	0					x	x
	Dmytro Grychanuk / Oleksand Litovchenko	BSU	86	0					x
	Valeriy Starchenko / Evhen Potanin	VMC	81	0						x
	Mark Kinge / Gary Kinge	KTM-VMC	71	0							x	x
	Marko Schulz / Mario Meusburger	Zabel-VMC	72	0							x	x
	Kevin Bitsche / Johannes Vonbun	Zabel-WSP	67	0							x	x	x	x
	Jean-Marie Ains / Bernard Jayet	MEFO	37	0									x	x
	Andy Eastman / Steve Krwin	KTM-VMC	36	0											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.
• 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 Premysl Novotny as his passenger in race three and four, Sven Verbrugge in race five and six and Bjorn Roes in race eleven and twelve.
• 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.
• Only 30 teams registered in time for the Jinin race, therefore every team qualified for the race^[3].

External links

• www.sidecarcross-action.de Results Lists Photos Viedeos Race-reports, next Events and many more about the Sidecarcross Worldchampionship
• The official FIM website
• Sidcarcross.de with results and dates for the 2008 season (in German)

Sources

• The World Championship on Sidecarcross.com
• Seitenwagen-Motocross website with pictures and results (in German)
• The John Davey Grand Prix Pages - Results of all GP's up until 2005
• MX247-Motocross website with sidecarcross results
• Official FIM website with the 2008 results

References