By International road racing ‘Alien’ Peter Hickman, ended his first Circuit De Chimay racing tenure in prosperous style, chalking up a podium finish within the second BeNeLux Trophy/ESR Superbike race.
Getting close to lap times inside 1.37 seconds, fourteen times TT winner Hickman was the early pace setter, leading for three laps before eventual race winner Yan Ancia, took control.
On lap seven Hickman (8TEN Racing BMW) dropped bags of time, slipped to third with pole-sitter Ouri Bikkems jumping up to second.
The top three order went unchanged through the remaining race laps, with Ancia the winner by 1.949 over Bikkems.
Hickman third, was 4.090 ahead of Lukas Maurer (LM Racing Team – Yamaha), who in turn was plus ten seconds in front of SBK Race 1 winner, Laurent Hoffmann (Hoffmann by MRP – BMW).
2026 Chimay Open Trophy – BeNeLux Trophy/ESR Superbike Race 2 Result:
1st – Yan Ancia
2nd – Ouri Bikkems
3rd – Peter Hickman
4th – Lukas Maurer
5th – Laurent Hoffmann
6th – Sander Claessen
7th – Fedrik Matthys
8th – Kevin De Haan
9th – Eddy Ferre
10th – Mike Parmentier
11th – Wesley Ankersmid
12th – Anssi Koski
13th – Christophe Guerouah
14th – David Brook
15th – Jakub Sprojcar
16th – Rasmus Lindstrom
17th – Joachim Moreels
18th – Wouter De Cooman
19th – Karel De Groote
20th – Morgan Baplu
21st – Jean-Pierre Polet
22nd – Christoph Kreller
23rd – Wayne Bourgeais
24th – Kaare Jensen
25th – Paul Manx
26th – Florant Gosset
27th – Rob Van Eijs
28th – Damien De Reys
Photo credit: Jan Vavra
Words by Stevie Rial #dontletfearcontrolyou
