Kenny van Gaalen

Kenny van Gaalen (born 29 January 1988) is a Dutch sidecarcross rider who won the 2012 Sidecarcross World Championship as passenger to Daniel Willemsen. He began his sidecarcross career in 2004 as passenger to the Belgian driver Ben Adriaenssen, racing in the Netherlands in the competition of the Motorsport Organisatie Nederland, a Dutch amateur motorsport organisation. The pair entered the World Championship in 2009 and finished sixth overall in 2010. In 2012 he replaced Haralds Kurpnieks, who had broken his wrist, as Willemsen's passenger, and he took the title because he earned more than half of the points Willemsen scored over the season, the requirement for a passenger to become world champion under FIM regulations. He was later replaced by Lauris Daiders for the last five Grands Prix after a knee injury. In 2014 and 2015 he rode with the young driver Koen Hermans, coming sixth overall in 2015.