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Will Assen break the deadlock in 2025 FIM Sidecar World Championship?
Following a break of almost two months, the 2025 FIM Sidecar World Championship resumes this coming weekend (16-17 August) with round five at the world-famous TT Circuit Assen – better known to its fans around the world as the Cathedral of Speed – in the Netherlands.
The first of two scheduled visits this season to the iconic circuit that has staged top-flight racing since 1955, the TT Circuit Assen is ideally suited to Sidecar racing and has featured on the FIM Sidecar World Championship every year the series has been staged since 2013.
With the seven-round series now past the halfway mark, it could not be any tighter at the top of the standings where, after a dramatic fourth round at Most in the Czech Republic in June, Markus Schlosser (Yamaha) and Luca Schmidt are tied on points with British brothers Sam and Thomas Christie (Yamaha) while defending champions Harrison Payne (Yamaha) and Kevin Rousseau are just three points further back.
An incredibly intense start to the season had seen the advantage swing between Schlosser/Schmidt and Britain’s Payne and his French passenger Rousseau before the reigning champions appeared to take command with a dominant victory – their fifth of the season – in Most’s Sprint race.
However, a mechanical issue while leading during the early stages of the following day’s Main race resulted in Payne/Rousseau failing to finish for the second time this year and when Schlosser/Schmidt took full advantage with their third race win of the season, the Swiss/German pairing moved to the top of the points table alongside the British brothers who were third in 2024.
Consistency has proved key so far for the Christie brothers who have yet to win a race this season, but have a one-hundred per cent podium record with five second-placed finishes and three thirds, although they know that victories could prove to be essential if they are to upgrade their bronze medals to gold ones at the end of the year.
While the leading three crews have monopolised most of this year’s podiums, there is so much strength in depth in the chasing pack that no-one can afford to rest on their laurels and there is no shortage of rival crews lining up behind them.
Although a distant fourth in the standings, sixty-nine points behind the leaders, Finnish legend and five-time champion rider Pekka Päivärinta (Yamaha) and his British passenger Adam Christie – the third of the Christie brothers in action this weekend – lead the chasing pack.
The French pairing of Paul Leglise (Yamaha) and Marjorie Cescutti recorded their debut podium together in Most’s Main race and will be aiming to carry this momentum into Assen and although they are not enjoying the greatest of seasons, the British/French pairing of Todd Ellis (Yamaha) and Emanuelle Clement took back-to-back titles in 2022 and 2023 and must be considered contenders.
Other crews that could be in contention include the all-British pairing of Kevin Cable (Yamaha) and Charlie Richardson, British rider Rupert Archer (Yamaha) and his Czech passenger Ondřej Sedláček and Germany’s Markus Venus (Yamaha) and his Swiss passenger Thomas Hofer.
The points-scoring action from Assen is due to get under way on Saturday (16 August) with the nine-lap Sprint race at 16:20 (local time) with the sixteen-lap Main race scheduled for Sunday (17 August) at 15:30 (local time).
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Will Assen break the deadlock in 2025 FIM Sidecar World Championship?Following a break of almost two months, the 2025 FIM Sidecar World Championship resumes this coming weekend (16-17 August) with round five at the world-famous TT Circuit Assen – better known to its fans around the world as the Cathedral of Speed – in the Netherlands.
The first of two scheduled visits this season to the iconic circuit that has staged top-flight racing since 1955, the TT Circuit Assen is ideally suited to Sidecar racing and has featured on the FIM Sidecar World Championship every year the series has been staged since 2013.
With the seven-round series now past the halfway mark, it could not be any tighter at the top of the standings where, after a dramatic fourth round at Most in the Czech Republic in June, Markus Schlosser (Yamaha) and Luca Schmidt are tied on points with British brothers Sam and Thomas Christie (Yamaha) while defending champions Harrison Payne (Yamaha) and Kevin Rousseau are just three points further back.
An incredibly intense start to the season had seen the advantage swing between Schlosser/Schmidt and Britain’s Payne and his French passenger Rousseau before the reigning champions appeared to take command with a dominant victory – their fifth of the season – in Most’s Sprint race.
However, a mechanical issue while leading during the early stages of the following day’s Main race resulted in Payne/Rousseau failing to finish for the second time this year and when Schlosser/Schmidt took full advantage with their third race win of the season, the Swiss/German pairing moved to the top of the points table alongside the British brothers who were third in 2024.
Consistency has proved key so far for the Christie brothers who have yet to win a race this season, but have a one-hundred per cent podium record with five second-placed finishes and three thirds, although they know that victories could prove to be essential if they are to upgrade their bronze medals to gold ones at the end of the year.
While the leading three crews have monopolised most of this year’s podiums, there is so much strength in depth in the chasing pack that no-one can afford to rest on their laurels and there is no shortage of rival crews lining up behind them.
Although a distant fourth in the standings, sixty-nine points behind the leaders, Finnish legend and five-time champion rider Pekka Päivärinta (Yamaha) and his British passenger Adam Christie – the third of the Christie brothers in action this weekend – lead the chasing pack.
The French pairing of Paul Leglise (Yamaha) and Marjorie Cescutti recorded their debut podium together in Most’s Main race and will be aiming to carry this momentum into Assen and although they are not enjoying the greatest of seasons, the British/French pairing of Todd Ellis (Yamaha) and Emanuelle Clement took back-to-back titles in 2022 and 2023 and must be considered contenders.
Other crews that could be in contention include the all-British pairing of Kevin Cable (Yamaha) and Charlie Richardson, British rider Rupert Archer (Yamaha) and his Czech passenger Ondřej Sedláček and Germany’s Markus Venus (Yamaha) and his Swiss passenger Thomas Hofer.
The points-scoring action from Assen is due to get under way on Saturday (16 August) with the nine-lap Sprint race at 16:20 (local time) with the sixteen-lap Main race scheduled for Sunday (17 August) at 15:30 (local time).
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