By Next up on the IRRC 2024 roster is Belgium’s most famous, active road race venue, Circuit De Chimay.
34, 38 racers respectively are due to sample Supersport, Superbike contests at Chimay, with 14 nations overall represented.
Standout event wildcards, aiming to cause a ripple over the course of this weekend include the French trio of Amalric Blanc, Jonathan Goetschy and Optimark Road Racing team-mate Eddy Ferre.
Blanc, Goetschy, Ferre all enjoyed impressive TT 2024 tenures, setting major new personal best lap speeds.
The full provisional IRRC Chimay Superbike/Supersport start-lists, read as follows:
Special thanks to Jan Vavra, for compiling the following information.
(Title sponsor located near racer’s name)
Superbike:
Lukas Maurer – Maurer Racing
Jonathan Goetschy – Optimark Road Racing Team
Julien Cregniot – Cregniot Road Racing
Antoine Brault – Karim Antoine Racing Team
Mike Parmentier – Derous Racing
Erwan Bannwart – SB Racing Team
Amalric Blanc – Team Meca Prestige
Didier Grams – G&G Motorsport by BMW Motorrad
Luca Gottardi – Syntainics Racing by Penz13
Rhys Hardisty – Never Be Clever Racing
Christophe Guerouah – 34 Racing Spirit
Markus Karlsson – Hoffmann by MRP
Davy Maes – DM 43 / Mototech
Johannes Schwimmbeck – KFZ-Schwimmbeck #44
Jakub Sprojcar – TTRace
David Datzer – Datziii Racing by TW3 Racing
Eddy Ferre – Optimark Road Racing Team
Darryl Tweed – Never Be Clever Racing
Reinhard Strack – Mogli Racing Team
Mike Ceuppens – Texas Motors
Stephane Bednarek – B.B. Team
Thijs Peeters – Peeters Racing
Olivier Lupberger – Team Moto Meile
Emil Krchnavy – ZD-Motorsport
Salvatore Sallustro – 4S Riding School ASD
Jorn Hamberg – Performance Racing Achterhoek
Christoph Kreller – KRC Racing Crew
Come Geenen – 100 % Moto Brussels
Wally Jacobs – NN Racing
Jean-Pierre Polet – Road´s Warrior
Tiziano Rosati – Holy Hemp Racing Team
Gabriel Pons – ITeM17 Inovation Technique Moto
Laurent Hoffmann – Hoffmann by MRP
Fedrik Matthys – Team234
Jean-Luc David – Passion Vitesse
Steven Bellavoine – KILLTIME
Thierry Brunel – Thierry Brunel
Rene Grundei – ZSG Racing
Supersport:
Gary Johnson – Team Schleizer Dreieck
Nicolas Therouin – ProSpeed MotoSport
Ilja Caljouw – Performance Racing Achterhoek
Matthieu Pauchard – MC Racle Bitume
Jonas Stracke – Hepelmann Motorsport
Thomas Wendel – 2WAM.de Racing Team
Amalric Blanc – Team Meca Prestige
Rico Vetter – VRP Vetter Racing Performance Supported by SIEVI
Robert Rohde – Rossdorfer Racing Team
Rhys Hardisty – Never Be Clever Racing
Karel Brandtner – Blue Garage Racing
Yannick Jacops – SJL Racing International Road Race Team
Bjorn Depret – Racingteam Sputter
Sebastian Frotscher – Team Schleizer Dreieck
Marek Cerveny – WRP Wepol Racing Parts
Wayne Bourgeais – Team Objectif 2r / Basomba Racing
Adam McLean – Performance Racing Achterhoek
Eddy Ferre – Optimark Road racing Team
Darryl Tweed – Never Be Clever Racing
Roman Bocek – Betontransport
Michael Mace – Mike Mace Racing
Petr Najman – Laserscanning Europe by PSB Motorsport
Kevin Mos – Mobu Tuning
Lukas Vaclavovic – TTRace – Motorcycle Clothes
Jamie Williams – JLG/NCE Racing
Gregory Botty – BGracing
Erik Kjuus – Aware Moto Racing
Jonathan Lesceux – JLJ Racing Team
Brian Fuidge – Royal Navy Royal Marines Road Race Team
Marc Declerck – Chargebuze racing
Peter Lionel – Team Peter Racing
Romain Cleaz-Savoyen – RCS Team
Mauro Poncini – Delmo Racing
Wesley Ankersmid – Performance Racing Achterhoek
Photo credit: Mark Corlett
Words by Stevie Rial, Jan Vavra
