By 2.506 miles long, the Colmar-Berg located circuit Goodyear was opened in 1976. Last weekend (shorter circuit version – 1.814 miles long) the venue hosted the ‘Luxembourg Moto Classic’ intertwined with the BeNeLux Trophy grand finale.
There were a lot of well-known faces from roads scene circles during this meeting in Luxembourg.
Jef Van Calster, young IDM Supersport Belgian exponent, IRRC race winner earlier this year at Schleiz, new BeNeLux Supersport Champion took double win, he was supplemented two times on the 600cc podium with Joshua Huertas Y Broes and Wouter De Cooman, Varsselring (Hengelo), Circuit De Chimay experienced racers, same as another middleweight class category competitor, Bjorn Depret.
BeNeLux Superbike title spoils went to multiple IRRC Superbike podium finisher this year, fastest Dutch rider around Chimay, Thijs Peeters (P1 in Race 1, P2 in Race 2). He defeated fellow rapid Chimay, Hengelo specialists Yan Ancia (P3 x2) and Bram Lambrechts (P2 Race 1 – P1 Race 2).
Superbike action also contained Mike Parmentier, Fedrik Matthys, Patrick Van Der Eecken, Kees Boekel, former IRRC participant Erwan Bannwart from Switzerland all holding varying degrees of pure road racing experience.
We can additionally find in the race results, pilots with foremost roads skillsets like German Dirk Kaletsch in Supersport 400 category, a former TT racer, no stranger to Horice and Frohburger Dreieck.
IRRC rider Mike Ceuppens, Evo class Chimay lap record holder Bruno Gohy, Cedric Liegeois (Chimay Supersport races competitor).
Belgian Twin Trophy participants the already mentioned Joshua Huertas Y Broes, Sander Claessen, Wes Kleinfeld, Benjamin Vanacker, Gauthier De Hert, Thibault De Hert.
Nicky De Wit, Christophe Carlier, Boris Liegeois, Elias Van Roekel, Marc Thijs, Wim Van Den Bossche, Eddy Takkenkamp, Matthijas Parazijn, Jo Burm and IRRC Superbike exponent Wally Jacobs.
Front running IRRC Superbike contender Come Geenen, fourth in the final ranking of BeNeLux Superbike Trophy 2024, ahead of Kees Boekel and twice IRRC Champion Sebastien Le Grelle, is injured with pelvic external fixator following his high-speed crash at Horice in August. Wishing him a very speedy recovery, stay strong!
Photo credit: Michael Wincott
Words by Stevie Rial #dontletfearcontrolyou
