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(詳細はSidecar Motocross World Championship is an annual event, first held in 1980. It is organised by the Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme (FIM). Before 1980, a European competition was held from 1971 onwards. The current champions for the 2015 season are the Dutch-Latvian combination Etienne Bax and Kaspars Stupelis, having won their first World Championship together. Stupelis however had won two World Championships before as the passenger of Daniël Willemsen. The sport is predominantly amateur, with only the top-riders, like former and current World Champions Ben Adriaenssen, Daniël Willemsen and Etienne Bax being professional.〔(Starke Notgemeinschaft ) .motorsport-aktuell.com, published: 24 November 2009, accessed: 3 April 2011〕〔(Auf Abschiedstour ) ''Mitteldeutsche Zeitung'', published: 9 March 2012, accessed: 7 November 2014〕 The Sidecarcross World Championship, first held in 1980 and organised by the Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme, is an annual competition. All races, manufacturers and the vast majority of riders in the competition being in and from Europe.〔(2014 calendar ) FIM website, accessed: 23 September 2014〕〔 Sidecarcross is similar to motocross except that the teams consist of two riders, a driver and a passenger. Races are held on the same tracks as solo motocross but the handling of the machines differs as sidecars don't lean. The majority of physical work in the sport is carried out by the passenger, who speeds up the sidecarcross in corners by leaning out. The coordination between the driver and the passenger are therefore of highest importance.〔(The World Championship - Other: What is ) Sidecarcross.com, accessed: 27 July 2011〕 Record world champion Daniël Willemsen estimated that the passengers contribution to the success of a team is at least 50%, and that not enough credit is given to the passenger. The balance of a sidecar is reliant on the work of the passenger and passenger-driver coordination is vitale for success.〔(Sidecar motocross – A team sport ) FIM website, published: 15 December 2012, accessed: 21 September 2012〕 The sport is especially popular in Eastern Europe.〔 Parallel to the riders competition, a manufacturers championship is also held.〔 While usually a male-dominated sport the 2014 season saw the participation of a women driver in the competition. Belgian Sabrina van Calster was able to score two points in the first race of the Swiss Grand Prix.〔(Gespann-WM: Rennen der Überraschungen ) ''Speedweek'', published: 14 April 2014, accessed: 24 April 2014〕〔(2014 Classification ) FIM website, accessed: 10 June 2014〕 ==Overview== The World Championship in sidecar motocross is held annually form the European spring to autumn. The fifteen Grands Prix of the season are to be held in nine countries, Switzerland (two events), Germany (three events), Czech Republic, Netherlands, France (three events), Estonia, Spain and Latvia (two events). In comparison to the 2014 season five extra Grands Prix were added. Germany increased its number of Grands Prix from two to three while Latvia increased theirs from one to two. The Belgian Grand Prix was re-added to the season after having been cancelled in 2014 because of bad weather. Ukraine, who had its 2014 Grand Prix cancelled because of the political situation in the country, originally received a Grand Prix for 2015 but this event was removed from the calendar again. Switzerland also had its number of Grands Prix increased from one to two while Spain had not been on the calendar since 2005.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sidecarcross World Championship」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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