Ben Adriaenssen
NationalityBelgian
Born (1989-01-27) 27 January 1989
Bike number1
WebsiteOfficial website
Motorcycle racing career statistics
Sidecarcross World Championship
Active years2009 – present
ManufacturersKTM-VMC (2009–2011)
KTM-WSP (2012–2013)
Husqvarna-WSP (2014–present)
Championships(2) 2013, 2014
2015 championship position14th
Starts Wins Podiums Poles F. laps Points
144 23 63 2,352

Ben Adriaenssen (born 27 January 1989)[1] is a Belgian sidecarcross rider and the 2013 and 2014 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 latter 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]

Adriaenssen and his passenger, Ben van den Bogaart, once again won the World Championship in 2014, once more in the rain affected last Grand Prix of the season at Rudersberg, 18 points ahead of Etienne Bax.[9]

Adriaenssen suffered a foot injury during the fourth Grand Prix of the 2015 season, at the time sitting in second place of the World Championship, and was forced to miss the rest of the season.[10]

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 15
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
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
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
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 Ben van den Bogaart Husqvarna-WSP 1 402 19 4 7 17 NED
2–2		 FRA
2–1		 CZE
3–1		 FRA
4–3		 GER
1–1		 EST
1–2		 LAT
1–1		 SWI
3–2		 FRA
3–2		 GER
6–
2015 Ben van den Bogaart Husqvarna-WSP 14 161 8 1 2 6 SWI
1–2		 FRA
3–1		 ESP
3–4		 GER
3–10		 NED
–		 LAT
–		 CZE
–		 BEL
–		 FRA
–		 GER
–		 EST
–		 LAT
–		 SWI
–		 FRA
–		 GER
–
Overall 2009 - 2015 2,352 144 12 23 63 Source: FIM

Honours

World Championship

  • Champions: (2) 2013, 2014

Belgium

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Ben Adriaenssen official website Archived 16 October 2013 at the Wayback Machine accessed: 14 October 2013
  2. ↑ MON website Archived 21 May 2013 at the Wayback Machine (in Dutch) accessed: 14 October 2013
  3. ↑ 2009 Sidecarcross World Championship Archived 27 May 2012 at the Wayback Machine FIM website – Official results, accessed: 14 October 2013
  4. ↑ 2010 Sidecarcross World Championship Archived 27 May 2012 at the Wayback Machine FIM website – Official results, accessed: 14 October 2013
  5. ↑ 2011 Sidecarcross World Championship Archived 27 May 2012 at the Wayback Machine FIM website – Official results, accessed: 14 October 2013
  6. ↑ 2012 Sidecarcross World Championship Archived 16 October 2013 at the Wayback Machine FIM website – Official results, accessed: 14 October 2013
  7. ↑ 2013 Sidecarcross World Championship Archived 16 October 2013 at the Wayback Machine FIM website – Official results, accessed: 14 October 2013
  8. ↑ Schlammschlacht in Rudersberg (in German) Hohenloher Tagblatt, published: 19 September 2013, accessed: 14 October 2013
  9. ↑ Gepann-WM: Zitterpartie für Champion Adriaenssen (in German) speedweek.com, published: 22 September 2014, accessed: 24 September 2014
  10. ↑ Kwetsuur door Ben Archived 16 October 2013 at the Wayback Machine (in Dutch) Team Adriaenssen website, published: 20 May 2015, accessed: 27 May 2015
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