By A truly historic second IRRC Superbike race stint at Circuit De Chimay, saw the event lap-record surpassed on what felt like 1,000, 10,000 times!
Front-runners, Come Geenen, David Datzer were both setting the first 1:35 seconds lap times at the IRRC Chimay meeting.
Ultimately, further sticking in his place as outright lap record hoister was 100% Moto Brussels sponsored Geenen, thanks to an incredible lap on lap seven of the nine lap race, 1 minute 35.366 seconds.
Geenen had trailed 2022 Macau GP runner-up Datzer (new Chimay PB – 1:35.630) at the completion of laps three, four before re-emerging P1 on lap four.
The Belgian aces’ P1 goal would not be de-railed from here as he made it back-to-back SBK triumphs, (final race winning margin – 6.508 seconds).
Race success also supplements a new increased IRRC SBK Championship lead for Geenen of eighteen points over reigning Champion, third place finisher, Lukas Maurer.
Datzer, competing under his own teams’ banner, supported by TW3 Racing, is now 23 points shy of Geenen.
Outside the SBK Championship titans, fourth-tenth place finishers from the final 1000cc race expedition of this year’s IRRC Chimay extravaganza, were:
Gabriel Pons (P4), Markus Karlsson (P5), Didier Grams (P6), Jorn Hamberg (P7), Johannes Schwimmbeck (P8), Laurent Hoffmann (P9) and Jonathan Goetschy (P10).
IRRC Chimay – Superbike Race 2 Result:
1st – Come Geenen
2nd – David Datzer
3rd – Lukas Maurer
4th – Gabriel Pons
5th – Markus Karlsson
6th – Didier Grams
7th – Jorn Hamberg
8th – Johannes Schwimmbeck
9th – Laurent Hoffmann
10th – Jonathan Goetschy
11th – Mike Parmentier
12th – Wally Jacobs
13th – Erwan Bannwart
14th – Rhys Hardisty
15th – Davy Maes
16th – Tiziano Rosati
17th – Fedrik Matthys
18th – Christophe Guerouah
19th – Stephane Bednarek
20th – Antoine Brault
21st – Rene Grundei
22nd – Olivier Lupberger
23rd – Emil Krchnavy
24th – Jakub Sprojcar
Photo credit: Thijs Van Der Horst
Words by Stevie Rial #dontletfearcontrolyou
