The Vruwink MotorCycles company, short VMC, is a Dutch

Sidecarcross Sidecarcross racing, also known as sidecar motocross, is a branch of motocross. Regular motocross riders use solo machines, but a sidecarcross outfit has a different type of motorcycle chassis operated by a team of two people, a driver and a s ...

frame manufacturer, having won eleven riders and six manufacturers

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in this sport.

Company history

VMC was formed in 1984 by a Dutchman of the name Vruwink, who gave the company its name. The company had and has only two employees and is specialised in making sidecarcross frames. In 1995, VMC was bought by a Belgian with the name of Bakens, who still owns it as of 2008. As of the end of 2010, the company has eleven riders world championships to its name. From 2004 to 2009, the company also won six manufacturers championships in a row and a seventh one in 2011.FIM Sidecar Motocross World Championship World champions
FIM website, accessed: 8 August 2011

Honours

* Manufacturers World Championships: (7) 2004–09, 2011 * Riders world championships (11) ** Christoph Hüsser / Andreas Hüsser;

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-VMC 1988, 1989 **

Andreas Fuhrer Andreas Fuhrer (born 21 May 1959) is a retired Swiss sidecarcross rider and four times World Champion. He has also won the Swiss national sidecarcross championship five times, in 1989 and from 1993 to 1996. After his last world championship in 1 ...

Adrian Käser Adrian Käser is a retired Swiss sidecarcross passenger and four times World Champion. He has also won the Swiss national sidecarcross championship five times, in 1991 and from 1993 to 1996. After his last world championship in 1996, he retired ...

; Kawasaki-VMC 1993, 1994 **

Daniël Willemsen Daniël Johan Nico Willemsen (born 7 May 1975 in Lochem, Gelderland) is a Dutch sidecarcross rider and ten times World Champion. Willemsen is the most successful rider in sidecarcross history, winning the title ten times, in 1999, 2003, 2004, 200 ...

Kaspars Stupelis Kaspars Stupelis (born 7 July 1982) is a Latvian sidecarcross passenger and quadruple World Champion. Stupelis won the 2015 and 2019 World Championship as passenger of Etienne Bax. His previous two world championships were gained when being the pas ...

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-VMC 2003, 2004 ** Daniël Willemsen /

Sven Verbrugge Sven Verbrugge (Schoten, 21 August 1967) is a retired Belgium, Belgian sidecarcross passenger and triple Sidecarcross World Championship, Sidecarcross World Champion, winning the title in 2005, 2006 and 2011. Verbrugge started racing motocross in ...

; Zabel-VMC 2005, 2006 ** Daniël Willemsen /

Reto Grütter Reto Elias Grütter (17 July 1984) is a Swiss sidecarcross passenger and the 2007 and 2008 Sidecarcross World Champion. ''Reto Grütter's'' name can sometimes be found to be, wrongfully, spelled ''Reto Grutter''. Sidecarcross world championsh ...

; Zabel-VMC 2007, 2008 **

Joris Hendrickx Joris Hendrickx (born 2 February 1983, in Turnhout)Joris Hendrickx official website
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Kaspars Liepiņš Kaspars Liepiņš (born 11 October 1984 in Cēsis)Joris Hendrickx official website
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; KTM-VMC 2009

References

External links

VMC company website

The world championship on sidecarcross.com

The official ''FIM'' website
Motorcycle manufacturers of the Netherlands Sidecarcross Vehicle manufacturing companies established in 1984 Dutch companies established in 1984 {{motorcycle-stub