Team Hermans/Musset makes the first meters of 2018!
Koen Hermans made the first meters of 2018 on his sidecar last weekend. The young talented driver from Hengelo (GLD) did this with a new truck as well as a new chassis.
After a very strong second half of the season, Hermans rode his VMC machine into the top five of the 2017 Sidecar Cross World Championship together with baking driver Kenny van Gaalen last year.
However, Kenny van Gaalen indicated that he would stop playing baking at the end of 2017 as he could no longer combine playing at World Cup level with his other ambitions. Hermans himself decided to return to his first love, a WSP racing frame, after a number of seasons with the VMC chassis. This makes team Hermans the only top team to switch to a different chassis for 2018.
After starting with Roy Bijenhof, with whom Hermans became the youngest ONK Sidecar day podium customers ever, and later with Kenny van Gaalen, with whom Hermans rode into the top five of the World Cup last year, it was now the turn of the third driver from Hermans' career.
This is none other than current French World Champion Nicolas Musset. Musset had to look for another teammate as team Bax announced that it would start with another baking player in 2018. (It is now clear that Etienne Bax will defend his World Cup title in 2018 together with the Latvian Kaspars Stupelis).
Koen Hermans was also looking for an adequate replacement for Kenny van Gaalen, who announced his retirement.
Despite the distance between the two gentlemen, and we are talking about living hundreds of kilometers apart, they still found what they were looking for, namely a top World Cup rider and a top World Cup baker. Together they made their first meters of 2018 last weekend in their very nice looking WSP-Zabel outfit!
On March 4, during the very first ONK in Lochem, we will only really know what Hermans/Musset are capable of, but that of course applies to all the top teams who will undoubtedly be counting down the next three weeks until the first ONK in Lochem, which in terms of participants is in fact a 'mini' GP, which will be held on March 4 at the Gaggeldijk circuit.
Text: Emil Bilars
Photo: Freddie Driezes
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