Eimbert Timmermans Explained

Eimbert Timmermans
Nationality: Netherlands
Birth Date:24 October 1961
Birth Place:'s-Hertogenbosch
Sa Active Years:1986 - 1992
1995
Sa Championships:(2) 1991, 1992
Sa Last Season:1995
Sa Last Position:26th
Sa Last Points:18
Sa Race Starts:149
Sa Race Wins:24
Sa Podiums:47
Sa Total Points:1470

Eimbert Timmermans (born 24 October 1961) is a retired Dutch sidecarcross rider and double World Champion.

He has also won the Dutch national sidecarcross championship four times, in 1986, 1989, 1990, and 1992. All his successes were achieved with Eric Verhagen as his passenger.

Biography

After the end of his sidecarcross career in 1992, Eimbert Timmermans opened a transport company, Timtrans, whose director he is.[1]

He continues to be involved in motor sport, having taken part in the 2009 Dakar Rally as a mechanic in the truck category.[2] [3]

Sidecarcross world championship results

Eimbert Timmermans's first success as a sidecarcross rider came in 1986, when he took out the Dutch national championship, together with Eric Verhagen. This season was also his first in the sidecarcross world championship, where the team finished sixteen's, with two seventh place race finishes as their best results.[4]

After similar results in 1987, the team greatly improved in 1988, coming fifth in the world championship and taking out their first race win in the Dutch GP. After continuing good results in 1989 and 1990 and two more Dutch national championships, the team managed to take out their first world championship in 1991.

The following season, 1992, saw a repeat of the world championship and also a fourth Dutch title. Timmermans retired from the competition after that, as did Eric Verhagen.[5]

He returned for six races in 1995 with passenger Andre Visser but had limited success and did not race in the world championship again.

Season by season

SeasonPassengerEquipmentPositionPointsRacesWinsSecondThird
1986 Eric VerhagenMaico-EML166616
1987 Eric VerhagenKawasaki-EML176116
1988 Eric VerhagenKawasaki-EML51982211
1989 Eric VerhagenKawasaki-EML325724424
1990 Eric VerhagenKawasaki-EML51471623
1991 Eric VerhagenKawasaki-EML125218532
1992 Eric VerhagenKawasaki-EML1471311226
1995 Andre VisserKawasaki-BSU26186
Overall 1986 - 19951470149241112
Source: Web site: The John Davey Pages - Eimbert Timmermans . 2009-11-01. John Davey .

Honours

World Championship

Netherlands

External links

Notes and References

  1. http://www.timtrans.nl/start.html Transportbedrijf TimTrans
  2. http://www.rtl.nl/(/sport/rtl_gp/rtlgp/)/sport/rtl_gp/components/dakar/nederlanders/articles/bio_eimbert_timmermans.xml 2009 Dakar Rally - Eimbert Timmermans
  3. http://www.motorsport.com/news/article.asp?ID=316042&FS=DAKAR 2009 Dakar entry list
  4. http://thejohndaveypages.org/CV/.%5CXXX%5CCV_XXX_D_Timmermans_E.htm EIMBERT TIMMERMANS GP RECORD
  5. http://thejohndaveypages.org/CV/XXX/CV_XXX_P_Verhagen_E.htm ERIC VERHAGEN GP RECORD