Benny Janssen











Benny Janssen
Nationality
Netherlands Netherlands






















Motorcycle racing career statistics
Sidecarcross World Championship
Active years 1982 - 1991
Manufacturers Yamaha-Wasp (1982–85)
Maico-EML (1986)
Jumbo-EML (1987–88)
Honda-EML (1989–90)
Zabel-EML (1991)
Championships (1) 1990

1991 championship position		 6th

















Starts Wins Podiums Poles F. laps Points
158 14 47 1,535

Benny Janssen is a retired Dutch sidecarcross rider and the 1990 World Champion, which he won on a Honda-EML, together with his passenger Tiny Janssen.[1][2]


The year after his World Championship triumph he has also won the Dutch national sidecarcross championship, riding with his most regular passenger throughout his career, Frans Geurts van Kessel.[3]




Contents






  • 1 Biography


  • 2 Racing record


    • 2.1 Sidecarcross World Championship




  • 3 Honours


    • 3.1 World Championship


    • 3.2 Netherlands




  • 4 References


  • 5 External links





Biography


Benny Janssen first entered the Sidecarcross World Championship in 1982 with Frans Geurts van Kessel as his passenger, competing in the Dutch and Belgian Grand Prix and earning three points from those two appearances. The following season Janssen used two passengers during his World Championship campaign, van Kessel and Henk van Heek, and earned 39 points all season, finishing in tenth place overall.[1]


The next two season he exclusively combined with van Kessel again and the pair finished eighth and sixth. In 1986 the team came sixth once more, in a season where Janssen also briefly used 1981 World Champion Frits Kiggen as his passenger. The following year Janssen and van Kessel finished fourth in the competition, but slipped to tenth in 1988. The 1989 season saw the pairs best result so far, finishing second in the World Championship, 26 points behind champions Christoph and Andreas Hüsser.[1]


Janssen started the 1990 season with van Kessel as his passenger once more but switched to Tiny Janssen after two Grand Prix. The new combination performed well, eventually taking out the World Championship with a 13-point gap from Germans Michael Garhammer and Ralf Haas.[1]


The 1991 season saw Janssen compete in the World Championship for the last time, using four different passengers during the season, Epe Willems, Tiny Janssen, Ron Varga and van Kessel. With the later two he also took out the Dutch national championship. In this event, he beat 1991 and 1992 World Champions Eimbert Timmermans and Eric Verhagen by three points while he finished his last World Championship campaign in sixth place. After this season Janssen retired from both the World and the Dutch Championship.[1][3]



Racing record



Sidecarcross World Championship


Benny Janssen 's results in the Sidecarcross World Championship were:.[1]








































































































































Season
Passenger(s)
Equipment
Position
Points
Races
Wins
Second
Third

1982
 Frans Geurts van Kessel
 Yamaha-Wasp
 27
 3
 4
 —
 —
 —

1983
 Frans Geurts van Kessel
Henk van Heek
 Yamaha-Wasp
 10
 39
 12
 —
 —
 2

1984
 Frans Geurts van Kessel
 Yamaha-Wasp
 8
 131
 20
 —
 2
 1

1985
 Frans Geurts van Kessel
 Yamaha-Wasp
 6
 136
 8
 —
 1
 2

1986
 Frans Geurts van Kessel
Frits Kiggen
Maico-EML
 6
 220
 22
 2
 2
 1

1987
 Frans Geurts van Kessel
 Jumbo-EML
 4
 204
 20
 1
 2
 1

1988
 Frans Geurts van Kessel
Frits Kiggen
 Jumbo-EML
 10
 138
 20
 —
 2
 —

1989
 Frans Geurts van Kessel
 Honda-EML
 2
 298
 24
 3
 4
 3

1990
 Frans Geurts van Kessel
Tiny Janssen
 Honda-EML
1
 220
 18
 5
 5
 1

1991
 Frans Geurts van Kessel
Ron Varga
Epe Willems
Tiny Janssen
 Zabel-EML
 6
 146
 10
 3
 2
 2


Overall 1982 - 1991


1,535
158
14
20
13


Honours



World Championship



  • Champions: (1) 1990

  • Runners-up: (1) 1989



Netherlands




  • Dutch national championship:

  • Champions: (1) 1991

  • Runners-up: (1) 1984



References





  1. ^ abcdef Benny Janssen Sidecarcross World championship results The John Davey Pages, accessed: 17 October 2013


  2. ^ World Champions sidecarcross.com, accessed: 17 October 2013


  3. ^ ab Dutch national championship results 1961 - 2006 The John Davey Pages, accessed: 17 October 2013




External links


  • The World Championship on Sidecarcross.com













Sporting positions
Preceded by
Christoph Hüsser
Sidecarcross World Champion
1990
 Succeeded by
Eimbert Timmermans
Preceded by
Eimbert Timmermans
Dutch national sidecarcross champion
1991
 Succeeded by
Eimbert Timmermans







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