Kaspars Liepiņš























Kaspars Liepiņš
Nationality
Latvia Latvia
Born
(1984-10-11) 11 October 1984 (age 34)
Cēsis, Soviet Union
Bike number 222
Website Official website


















Motorcycle racing career statistics
Sidecarcross World Championship
Active years 2007 - present
Manufacturers KTM-AYR (2007-2008)
KTM-VMC (2009-present)

2012 championship position		 4th

















Starts Wins Podiums Poles F. laps Points
124 11 64 2,131

Kaspars Liepiņš (born 11 October 1984 in Cēsis)[1] is a Latvian sidecarcross rider and the 2009 World Champion, won as the passenger of the Belgian Joris Hendrickx.[2]


As Hendrickx's passenger he is also a three-time Belgian national sidecarcross champion, having won titles in 2008, 2009 and 2010, and the 2013 French and 2015 German champion.




Contents






  • 1 Sidecarcross results


    • 1.1 Season by season




  • 2 Honours


    • 2.1 World Championship


    • 2.2 Belgium


    • 2.3 France


    • 2.4 Germany




  • 3 References


  • 4 External links





Sidecarcross results


Kaspars Liepiņš took part in sidecarcross races in the national Latvian championship from 2003, at first as passenger for U. Zvaigznītis, and, from 2004, on the side of Kārlis Leimanis.[3]


Kaspars Liepiņš made his world championship debut on 9 April 2007, in the first race of the season, alongside fellow Latvian Kārlis Leimanis. In their first race, they finished only 26th but managed to win three points in race two of the event, the Dutch GP at Oldebroek. The duo took part in the first four of eight events that season, with a sixteenth place their best result and an overall finish of 33rd.[4]


The following season, Liepiņš teamed up with Joris Hendrickx and earned considerably more success, coming fourth overall[4] and winning the Belgian national championship.[1]


The 2009 season was initially dominated by Daniël Willemsen, who had won the previous six world championships. When Willemsen missed a number of races because of injury, Jan Hendrickx took the lead in the competition. At the German GP at Strassbessenbach, Hendrickx/Liepiņš took out their first race win and also their first Grand Prix victory. With one event, the GP at Rudersberg, to go, Joris Hendrickx and Kaspars Liepins were 13 points behind the leaders Jan Hendrickx / Tim Smeuninx, in second place, but the leading combination suffered an engine defect in round four of the first race in Germany and lost all its advantage.[5] A win and a second place in the last event earned the Belgian / Latvian combination the world title, with Joris Hendrickx becoming only the second Belgian to do so, after Sven Verbrugge, and the first Belgian driver to record this achievement. Kaspars Liepiņš, in turn, is the fourth Latvian with world championship honours in the sport.[6]


The Belgian-Latvian combination Hendrickx-Liepiņš suffered a season-ending injury at the qualifying of the German Grand Prix in July 2011, being able to compete in the race but requiring surgery afterwards.[7] Consequently, the team only finished ninth in the overall standings at the end of the season.


The team was able to complete the 2012 season without injury and finished fourth in the world championship, 83 points behind Daniël Willemsen who won his tenth title. In November 2012, Joris Hendrickx retired from the sport, initially leaving Liepiņš to look for a new team.[8] Despite his announced retirement, Hendrickx still took part in non-GP sidecarcross races together with Liepiņš, the pair winning the event in Muri, Switzerland in 2013.[9] Hendrickx also declared that he would start at the Belgian and French GP's in 2013,[10] but did not compete in either event. Instead, Hendrickx and Liepiņš raced the French national championship which they won.[11]


In the 2014 season he competed in only a few selected races of the French championship, still as passenger of Hendrickx, but still as a top contender.[12] The following season the pair won the German championship.[13]



Season by season


Kaspars Liepiņš sidecarcross world championship statistics:




























































































Season
Driver
Equipment
Position
Points
Races
Wins
Second
Third

2007
Latvia Kārlis Leimanis
KTM-AYR
 33
 17
 8
 —
 —
 —

2008
Belgium Joris Hendrickx
 KTM-AYR
 4
 394
 24
 —
 2
 2

2009
Belgium Joris Hendrickx
 KTM-VMC
1
 483
 26
 2
 7
 10

2010
Belgium Joris Hendrickx
 KTM-VMC
 2
 547
 28
 6
 12
 2

2011
Belgium Joris Hendrickx
 KTM-VMC
 9
 315
 16
 2
 6
 2

2012
Belgium Joris Hendrickx
 KTM-VMC
 4
 369
 22
 1
 3
 7


Overall 2007 - 2012


2,131
124
11
30
23

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  • Passengers in italics.


Honours



World Championship



  • Champions: (1) 2009

  • Runners-up: (1) 2010



Belgium



  • Champions: (3) 2008, 2009, 2010


France



  • Champions: (1) 2013


Germany



  • Champions: (1) 2015


References





  1. ^ ab Joris Hendrickx official website Archived 2009-07-31 at the Wayback Machine accessed: 14 September 2009


  2. ^ Joris Hendrickx is wereldkampioen zijspancross (in Dutch), nieuwsblad.be, published: 13 September 2009, accessed: 14 September 2009


  3. ^ SIDECAR CROSS NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS LATVIA The John Davy Pages, accessed: 25 September 2009


  4. ^ ab Sidecarcross.com accessed: 25 September 2009


  5. ^ Rudersberg schreibt Geschichte (in German), Race report for the last event in 2009, accessed: 25 September 2009


  6. ^ Sidecarcross world championship standings 2009 Archived 2013-10-16 at the Wayback Machine FIM website, accessed: 14 September 2009


  7. ^ Seitenwagen-WM: Saisonende für Joris Hendrickx (in German) Speedweek, published: 29 July 2011, accessed: 8 August 2011


  8. ^ JORIS HENDRICKX STOPT MET SIDECARCROSS! (in Dutch) www.sidecarcross.be, published: 10 November 2012, accessed: 4 January 2013


  9. ^ MX-Gespanne Muri: Bürgler von Hendrickx besiegt (in German) Speedweek, published: 22 May 2013, accessed: 30 May 2013


  10. ^ MX-Gespanne: Joris Hendrickx tritt kürzer (in German) Speedweek, published: 12 November 2012, accessed: 30 May 2013


  11. ^ 2013 France national sidecarcross championship accessed: 16 October 2013


  12. ^ 2014 France national Sidecarcross championship accessed: 7 November 2014


  13. ^ 2015 German national Sidecarcross championship accessed: 24 September 2015




External links



  • Official website


  • Blakusvāģi: Kaspars Liepiņš - pasaules čempions Article on the championship-winning race in 2009 (in Latvian)

  • The World Championship on Sidecarcross.com

  • The John Davey Grand Prix Pages - Results of all GP's up until 2005
























Sporting positions
Preceded by
Reto Grütter
Sidecarcross World Champion (passenger)
2009
 Succeeded by
Gertie Eggink
Preceded by
Reto Grütter
Belgian national sidecarcross champion (passenger)
2008–2010
 Succeeded by
Tim Smeuninx
Preceded by
Bertrand Poirier
French national sidecarcross champion (passenger)
2013
 Succeeded by
Nicolas Musset
Preceded by
Martin Betschart
German national sidecarcross champion (passenger)
2015
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