Benny Janssen

Benny Janssen is a retired Dutch sidecarcross rider who became World Champion in 1990. He took the title riding a Honda-EML machine with Tiny Janssen as his passenger, finishing 13 points clear of the German pairing of Michael Garhammer and Ralf Haas. His career in the Sidecarcross World Championship began in 1982, when he entered the Dutch and Belgian Grands Prix with Frans Geurts van Kessel in the sidecar, and he went on to place tenth, eighth, sixth, sixth and fourth in the following seasons before finishing second in 1989. In 1991 he won the Dutch national sidecarcross championship, and he retired from both the world and national series after that season, which he ended sixth in the world standings.