Throughout the past seven years no less than 17 racers have secured at least one Supersport or Superbike race victory at the prestigious Open Trophy meeting at Belgium’s most illustrious roads course, Circuit De Chimay.
Topping the victory table through the 2013-2019 period is one of Belgium’s all time roads greats, 2016 IRRC Superbike Champion Vincent Lonbois, who has acquired 12 race wins all in the premier Superbike class.
Fellow Belgian roads royalty Laurent Hoffmann and Sebastien Le Grelle have secured respectively eight, six race wins.
Photo by Robby Repsol
Whilst a further four racers have banked at least three victories, Timothy Baken and the most recent IRRC Supersport Champion’s Marek Cerveny, Joey Den Besten and Matthieu Lagrive.
The full list of racers to emerge victorious from Supersport, Superbike competition at Circuit De Chimay within the 2013-2019 period, is as follows:
(Number beside racers name, indicates amount of Chimay Open Trophy Supersport/Superbike victories acquired by the competitor)
Vincent Lonbois 12
Laurent Hoffmann 8
Sebastien Le Grelle 6
Timothy Baken 3
Joey Den Besten 3
Marek Cerveny 3
Matthieu Lagrive 3
Didier Grams 2
Nigel Walraven 2
Davy Mispelon 2
Yan Ancia 2
Davey Todd 2
Marc Fissette 1
Pierre Yves Bian 1
Boris Liegeois 1
Wouter Aelterman 1
Luca Gottardi 1
Words by Stevie Rial