Preview: Sidecarcross GP 7 Kivioli - Estonia
By Tracy Thacker on 7th Jun 19
This weekend the sidecar GP season moves to GP 7 in Estonia at the awesome Kivioli Adventure Center.
A track the sidecars have visited regularly for the past few seasons - a brilliant weekend of motorsport with the GP as the main event but also midnight motocross, Estonian Rock bands, a hill climb and extra attractions at the centre including down-hill go-karting that is not for the faint-hearted, as you are towed up on the ski lift and released down the slope - without snow this time of year, there is also a massive zip wire course. Many things to keep everyone entertained.
The track is set into the hill too with massive jumps and long sweeping straights - expect the action to be electric.
Bax/Stupelis retained the red plate at the end of GP 6 in France last weekend. Current champions Vanluchene/Van Den Bogaart were just six point behind at the start of the day, but a big crash in the closing laps of GP race 2 meant they lost their second position in that race and will have to work hard to fight the red plate back into their possession. Fortunately the injuries arent going to stop them racing this weekend.
There is no change in the remaining top four positions, with Hermans/Musset third, and Sanders/Kunnas fourth.
Stuart Brown/Josh Chamberlain had a difficult week with mechanical problems and now hold seventh.
The other British teams to watch out for this weekend are the second Brown Team, Jake Brown with Joe Millard currently holding seventeenth with George Kinge/Lewis Gray sixteenth.
Teams missing this week will be Team No 8 - Brett Wilkinson/Ryan Humphrey. Brett is still recovering from a damaged back after a bad crash at GP 1. Also, Julian Veldman had a bad fall during training and broke his wrist, but we hope to see them back soon. Finally, Team No 111 - Daniel Willemsen parted company with passenger Luc Rostingt in the Ukraine and has not yet organised a replacement for the GPs.
At such a fantastic event the racing will be out of this world.
Watch out for updates over the weekend.
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