Belgium wins the 2000 WORLD CUP ahead of Spain
Geert Mertens is World Champion
"PIKI"  (ex AEQUO WITH BERNAT BASAS) WINS HIS SECOND
MELLO YELLO JUNIOR WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP

January 2006 - The original report on the 2000 IMCA Worlds having disappeared, I make a reconstruction of what happened. One has to keep in mind that from 1995 thru 1999 no official World Championship for model cars was organised. In that period there was nearly no more (hard bodied) model car racing outside Europe. Early 1999 several European racers insisted that IMCA should again organise a decent World Championship for hard bodied model cars, being only open for typical model car specialists [thus not for ISRA-like scale racers or USRA-like wing car racers]. By organising the 2000 Model Car Worlds at the same week of the ISRA Scale Racing Worlds, one could be sure that no other racers than typical model car racers could show. Location was the Euroshop Warehouse at Roeselare (Belgium). A contract was made with the warehouse owner that the winning national team should receive € 20,000 cash. Spectators could bet on the top-3 with a special € 2000 prize for the winner.  Format was very simple and quite symmetric: six nations could enter each 4 cars, 2 GT1 and 2 GT2 with 1998 FIA GT bodies. Invited nations were Germany, Spain, Belgium, Holland, France and Slovakia. All cars had to use the PlaFit 124 Excel chassis, but with the Bison motor fixed ...behind the rear axle (what made the roadholding of the car extremely difficult, so that only a very experienced racer could win). Track was a 27-meter Carrera 6-laner. There were 4 rounds, where the top-10 in GT1 and top-10 in GT2 could score points. GT2 cars could only be driven by youngsters, GT1 cars by racers older than fully 22 years. There was not only an individual world championship for Experts and Youngsters, there was also a competition among nations, since only the best nation could win the € 20,000 prize. The resulted in a national solidarity, never seen before in such an individualistic sport as slot-racing. Eventually the 2000 World Cup for Nations was won by Belgium ahead of Spain. That was quite a surprise, since Belgium was present with a team of youngsters and pure amateurs, while Spain was present with a very professional team of Igualda racers. However, one should be honnest: without the soccer tournament - that year part of the World Cup and good for 100 extra points - Belgium should never have won the World Cup. Spain had the best racers, while Belgium had only Geert Mertens, "Piki" and JPVR as experienced racers. That year the world championship was won by Belgium's Geert Mertens, having won the last round and having finished second in the three former rounds. That year to Kurt Petri - having won two rounds out of four - could have been the new world champion, but for pure strategic reasons he preferred not to start in the last round. After three rounds he was still leading Geert Mertens by ... one point. Among the youngsters Bernat Basas and "Piki" van Rossem finished ex aequo with 70 points and two wins each. So that year there were two Mello Yello world champions. For "Piki" it was already his second win at the Mello Yello World Championship for youngsters.
	The 2000 World Champion Geert Mertens
	No less than 57 racers showed. Belgium had 11 racers for its 4 cars (there were always 2 racers per car). Best Belgian racer was "Piki", having won the 1995 Mello Yello Junior Worlds. Moreover ex-world champion JPVR, all-rounder Geert Mertens, and Nicolas Van den Abeele served as experienced entries. All other Belgian entries were newcomers, most of them being students.  Germany was also present with 11 racers. With such top guns as Manfred Stork, Ralph Klose, Kurt Petri, Michael Niemas, Kevin Krollmann, Patrick Brau next to Thomas Hahnel, Werner Grund, Norman Grund, Florian Both, and Axel Bernhard, Germany started as the top-favourite to win the Nations Cup. Strongest opponent seemed to be Spain, present with 8 racers. Among them Ivan Basas, Bernat Basas, Mauro Balaguer (winner of the 1999 DPM), Bernat Solsona (winner of the 1999 and 2000 DPM) next to Guillermo Serrano jr & sr, Jordi-Joan Tasias and Xavier Prat. Holland had also 8 racers with Hugo Dekker, John van Hoornaar, Ben de Hartog and Paul Uylenberg as seniors and Dennis Vogel, Ben Moen, Gerwen Hol and Edwin de Kuyper as juniors. Among the 8 racers from France we found Sylvain Pigny (who in 1994 defeated twice super star Jan Limpach!), Marc Joyeux, Henrique Dehais and Stéphane Bourdeau as seniors, and Benjamin Gonthier, Valentin Wouttiseh, David Bernard and Romain Guernon as juniors. Slovakia was only present with 6 racers: Jozef Miskolci, his brother Jaroslaw and Lubomir Kamenistiak as seniors, and Peter Dvorsky, Adrian Hruska and Patrik Zrubek as youngsters. Three Belgian racers (Dirk Wittevrongel and the Geeraerts Bros) decide to complete the Slovak Team.
Officially Bernat Basas won the Mello Yello Junior Worlds, but reconsidering the results it appeared that "Piki" van Rossem was stolen no less than 40 points by a painful miscalculation. After recalculation "Piki" was declared the 2000 Mello Yello Juniors World Champion with Bernat Basas as runner-up.
Prior to all racing there was - during the boring technical control - a soccer tournement where lots of points could be won for the Nations Cup. Here the Belgians were outstanding. they won with 11-2 from Holland in the Quarter Finals, with 8-1 from Slovakia in the Semi Finals and with 9-1 from Spain in the final. No miracle since the Belgians were present with 2 former international soccer players: Jean-Marie Pfaff (ex-Bayern München) in the goal and Nico Claessen (ex-Belgian natio-nal team) ans centre-forward. Round #1 is dominated by the Mercedes CLK-GTR cars. Kurt Petri/ Thomas Hahnel finish 3 laps ahead over the similar Mercedes of Geert Mertens/Peter Ackermans and 6 laps ahead over the Porsche 911 GT1-98 of Ivan Basas/Xavier Prat. A third Mercedes (JPVR/Nicolas van den Abeele) is fourth, another sixth (Ralph Klose/Axel Bernhard). Fifth place goes to a second Porsche GT1 shared by Serrano sr and Mauro Ballaguer. The two Slovakian Panoz cars and the French Honda NSX disappointed. In GT2 the Spanish Roock Porsches GT2 of Bernat Basas/Jordi Tasias and Serrano jr/Solsona take the two first places, ahead of two Vipers, res. of Patrick Brau/Normand Grund and of "Piki"/Youri van Rossem. Then follow the two Konrad Porsches GT2 of the Dutch national team.
At Round #2 positions are inverted. Now Porsche places three of its four GT1-98 cars in the top-3. Ivan Basas/Xavier Prat win, 2 laps ahead over the Mertens/Ackermans Mercedes, and 9 ahead over the surpri-sing Porsches of Dekker/den Hartog and Balaguer/Serrano sr. Then follow two Mercedes (JPVR/"Piki" and Petri/Hahnel).  One of the Vipers (Miskolci/Kamenistiak) goes better, finishing seventh.	The Belgian team with below Peter Ackermans, Nicolas van den Abeele, 9-years old Youri van Rossem and 12-years old Yannick Putzeys. On the second row we see Geert Mertens, Mike Timmermans, Kristof Klinkers, "Piki", Maya Willockx, Chrisophe Vanginderachter and Jan de Boey. Alone (top of the image) we recognise JPVR.
The Mercedes CLK-GTR of Geert Mertens finished three times second before winning the last round and the World Championship	In GT2 the Spanish Roock Porsches are again the two first, but now in inverse order with Serrano jr/Solsona beating Bernat Basas/Jordi Tasias. The #51 Viper, so disappointing in hands of Niemas/Both at round #1 is now third in hands of Brau/Both. The Belgian Viper of Timmermans/Klinkers looses during the final stages of the race its fourth place to the SOK Porsche GT2 of Gonthier/Guernon. First Konrad Porsche GT2 is sixth with Moen/de Kuyper. Commotion starting the third round, when two national teams complain that the Spanish cars use a faster and newer version of the Bison motor. After inspection it's decided that the motors on the four Spanish cars need to be changed. Round #3 gives a 1-2 for Mercedes. Kurt Petri/Manfred Stork win with hardly more than two car lengths from Geert Mertens/JPVR. For Petri it'salready his second win, for Mertens his third second place. That means that with one last round to go Petri leads the provisional stan-dings with 46 points, one more than Mertens. Third place in the race is for the Jever Porsche 911 GT1-98 of Dekker/Van Hoornaar, followed one lap further by the works Porsche 911 GT1-98 of Balaguer/Prat. The Mercedes CLK-GTR of Ackermans/Van den Abeele is fifth. After a seventh place at the previous round the fastest Slovakian Panoz is now sixth. The works Porsche 911 GT1-98 of Basas/Serrano sr is only seventh, followed by the black Porsche 911 GT1 of Henrique Dehais/ Stéphane Bourdeau. After two eleventh places the French Honda NSX is now tenth. In GT2 the Belgian Viper of "Piki"/Timmermans beats the Roock Porsche GT2 of Bernat Basas/Solsona and the French SOK Porsche GT2 of David Bernard/Benjamin Gonthier. The second Roock Porsche GT2 (Serrano jr/Tasias) is only fourth. The Dutch Konrad Porsches are fifth and eighth. In the Mello Yello ranking for youngsters "Piki" is now followed at 3 points by Bernat Basas and at 5 points by Solsona.
Round 4 is decisive, not only for the winner of the 2000 Nations Cup, but also for both world championships. Among the seniors there is a big surprise when two candidate winners decide NOT to start for the last round. It concerns the leader of the provisional ranking Kurt Petri (46 points) and the sixth in that ranking: JPVR (33 points). At the start Geert Mertens (45 points) has the best chances if he can keep the Spaniards Xavier Prat (42 points), Ivan Basas (36 points) and Mauro Ballaguer (28 points) behind. Among the juniors "Piki" (50 points) has to defeat no less than four Spanish youngsters: Bernat Basas (50 pts), Bernat Solsona (50 pts), Jordi Tasias (45 pts) and Guillermo Serrano jr (45 pts). Victory for the Nations Cup goes among Belgium and Spain. split by 29 points. Germany, having had serious problems with its second works Mercedes GTR-LM and with its too heavy Vipers, is fighting with Holland for the third place. Immediately after the start the two Spanish works Porsches 911 GT1-98 are pulling away, followed by the two German works Mercedes CLK, the two Belgian Persson Mercedes and the surprisingly fast Panoz Esperante GT-R of Jozef Miskolci. Balaguer leads Ivan Basas with Miskolci in third position and holding up the blue Mercedes of Mertens. Then follow the two German works Mercedes and the second blue Mercedes of the Belgians. After 10 minutes of racing the Spaniards change their drivers on the works Porsches. Basas replaces Balaguer and Serrano sr replaces Prat. Since Prat is the best placed to win the Model Car Worlds, Basas waits Serrano sr and let him take the lead. However he makes several mistakes so that Miskolci (Panoz) is threating him for the first place. Basas decides to wait no longer and attacks. He passes the Panoz and the Prat/Serrano car, where Prat takes over 5 minutes later. Initially he can move up into second position (good for 15 points), whilst Mertens/"Piki" are always fourth (good for 10 points). When at mid-race Prat hears he's the provisional leader of the Model Car Worlds (2 points ahead over Mertens) he becomes so nervous that hecommits several mistakes. He looses his second place to the Panoz, so that, with two segments to go, Mertens and Prat have virtually equal points.   "Piki", driving Mertens's Mercedes has to pass the Miskolci Panoz if he will bring Mertens to the leader's position at the Worlds. But Miskolci defends not only his second place, he even takes over the lead from Balaguer/Ivan Basas. During the fifth segment "Piki" succeeds to pass the Spanish works Porsche, moving into second position. It takes him nearly a complete segment to pass also the Panoz. All this makes Xavier Prat so nervous that he deslots several times. He drops in the standings from fourth to seventh position, having been passed by the works Mercedes of Klose/Hahnel, by the second Belgian blue Mercedes and even by the Jever Porsche GT1-98. The struggle for the Worlds is thus over. During the last segment Geert Mertens ensures his leader's position to win the last round and the title. The Miskolci Panoz is second at one lap, followed by the Balaguer/Basas Porsche, the Klose/Hahnel Mercedes, the Van den Abeele/Ackermans Mercedes, the Dekker/Den Hartog Jever Porsche and the unlucky Serrano/Prat Porsche. The NSX Honda is now ninth after two eleventh and one tenth place. In the Worlds ranking Ivan Basas jumps over Kurt Petri and Xavier Prat. Peter Ackermans was initially declared third, but now it appears that he was only fifth. IOC-points have been corrected. Petri and Prat deserve 4.5 IOC-points more and Ackermans looses 9 IOC-points.	The Dutch Konrad Porsche made by Hugo Dekker.
	AN UNBELIEVABLE ERROR DISCOVERED 6 YEARS LATER... In GT2 the #56 Roock Porsche GT2, now in hands of Bernat Basas/ Serrano jr, had its revenge against the #53 Viper (now driven by MikeTimmermans/Klinkers). Instead of loosing (as in round #3), the Spanish car won. Third place went once more to the French SOK Porsche GT2. Then followed the two German Vipers (having disappointed the whole week-end) and the second Spanish Roock Porsche. Struggle for the Mello Yello Junior Worlds was exciting - not until the real end, but even until ... six years later! Indeed, before the start of round #4 we had 3 co-leaders ("Piki", Bernat Basas and Bernat Solsona). At the finish we had still two leaders! "Piki" won 20 points as best youngster on GT1 (and overall winner of the round), whilst Bernat Basas won 20 points as best youngster in GT2. So both finished with 70 points. Both won also twice ("Piki" once in GT1 and once in GT2; Basas twice in GT2). So there were two Mello Yello junior world champions in 2000: "Piki" van Rossem (B) and Bernat Basas (E). For "Piki" it was already his second Mello Yello win, since he won the previous edition in 1994. At the very moment of the prize giving, however, one forgot to calculate Piki's points won with GT1 cars (at round #2 he was best youngster in GT1, good for 20 points, and at round #4 he did the same, now being even an overall winner). The man who forgot to add the 40 points to Piki's total of 30 was ...his father, himself the organiser. It took JPVR indeed six years to discover his error. Instead of being only 7th with 30 points, "Piki" was, together with Bernat Basas first. His IOC-points (30 instead of 3, thus + 27) have been corrected.
The 4 Belgian cars The 4 French cars The 4 German cars The 4 Dutch cars The 4 Spanish cars The 4 Slovakian cars

10th IMCA MODEL CAR WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP - FINAL RESULTS				3rd MELLO YELLO JUNIORS WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP - FINAL RESULTS
1	Geert MERTENS	B	65 pts	1ex	"Piki" VAN ROSSEM (2 wins)	B	70 pts
2	Ivan Basas	E	48 pts	1ex	Bernat BASAS (2 wins)	E	70 pts
3	Kurt Petri	D	46 pts	3	Guillermo Serrano jr	E	65 pts
4	Xavier Prat	E	46 pts	4	Bernat Solsona	E	56 pts
5	Peter Ackermans	B	46 pts	5	Jordi-Joan Tasias	E	51 pts
6	Mauro Balaguer	E	40 pts	6	Mike Timmermans	B	47 pts
7	Thomas "Boum-Boum" Hahnel	D	36 pts	7	Patrick Brau	D	41 pts
8	Hugo Dekker	NL	34 pts	8	Benjamin Gonthier	F	25 pts
9	Jean Pierre van Rossem	B	33 pts	9	David Bernard	F	24 pts
10	"Piki" van Rossem	B	30 pts	10	Ben Moen	NL	24 pts
11	Guillermo Serrano sr	E	26 pts	11	Romain Guernon	F	23 pts
12	Nicolas van den Abeele	B	26 pts	12	Kristof Klinkers	B	23 pts
13	Jozef Miskolci	SVK	25 pts	13	Florian Both	D	23 pts
14	Manfred Stork	D	23 pts	14	Norman Grund	D	20 pts
15	Ben den Hartog	NL	22 pts	15	Dennis Vogel	NL	19 pts
16	John van Hoornaar	NL	16 pts	16	Michael Niemas	D	16 pts
17	Ralph Klose	D	16 pts	17	Edwin de Kuyper	NL	16 pts
18	Jaroslaw Miskolci	SVK	15 pts	18	Gerwen Hol	NL	15 pts
19	Sylvain Pigny	F	10 pts	19	Youri van Rossem	B	13 pts
20	Lubomir Kamenistiak	SVK	10 pts	20	Kevin Krollmann	D	10 pts
21	Henrique Dehais	F	8 pts	21	Maya Willockx	B	8 pts
22	Axel Bernhard	D	6 pts	22	Yannick Putzeys	B	4 pts
23	Paul Uylenberg	NL	4 pts	23	Jan de Boey	B	4 pts
24	Stéphane Bourdeau	F	3 pts	24	Peter Dvorsky	SVK	4 pts
25	Werner Grund	D	3 pts	25	Adrian Hruska	SVK	4 pts
26	Marc Joyeux	F	3 pts	26	Yannick de Meyer	B	4 pts
27	Bernat Basas	E	2 pts	27	Jurgen Geeraerts	B/SVK	2 pts
28	Jordi-Joan Tasias	E	2 pts	28	Valentin Wouttiseh	F	2 pts
29	Mike Timmermans	B	2 pts	29	Patrick Zrubec	SVK	1 pt
30	Guillermo Serrano jr	E	1 pt	30	Christophe Vanginderachter	B	pts
31	Bernat Solsona	E	1 pt	31	Andy Geeraerts	B/SVK	0 pts
32	Dirk Wittevrongel	B/SVK	0 pts	In 2000 Belgium won his first World Cup (later called the Nations Cup), 33 points ahead over Spain. But let's be honnest, without the soccer tournement - where Belgium took 40 points on Spain - the Spaniards should have won. More surprisingly than the Belgian victory was the defeat of Germany. Indeed, the Germans came with such excellent seniors as Manfred Stork, Ralph Klose, Kurt Petri and Thomas Hahnel and with some of the world's best youngsters such as Michael Niemas, Kevin Krollmann, Patrick Brau and Norman Grund. On paper this national team was unbeatable before the start. On racing however, everything went wrong for the Germans, despite two wins out of four rounds. Their two Vipers (in GT2) were not competitive at all, so that they scored nearly no high points. Moreover one of their two Mercedes CLK-LMs didn't work at the three first rounds. Stirring also is the fact that winner Belgium came at the start with only four experienced racers: "Piki", Geert Mertens, Nicolas van den Abeele and JPVR. All others were typical club racers, all selected by the clubs of Diepenbeek and Grimbergen. Of the Belgian racers, most entrants stopped already active racing in 2001: Maya Willockx, Jan de Boey, Christophe Vanginderachter, the Geeraerts Bros, Dirk Wittevrongel, Mike Timmermans, Kristof Klinkers. The fact that Euroshop found a very poor excuse in order to pay never the promised € 20,000, was perhaps not strange on that massive withdrawal. The Euroshop owner pretended that TV-maker Luk Alloo didn't come to cover the event. But on Saturday the owner asked Alloo to show only on Sunday, and when Alloo showed on Sunday the owner told that it was forbidden by law to film the public. Later we were informed that such is a typical tactic by Euroshop...
33	Patrick Brau	D	0 pts
34	Benjamin Gonthier	F	0 pts
35	David Bernard	F	0 pts
36	Ben Moen	NL	0 pts
37	Romain Guernon	F	0 pts
38	Kristof Klinkers	B	0 pts
39	Florian Both	D	0 pts
40	Norman Grund	D	0 pts
41	Dennis Vogel	NL	0 pts
42	Michael Niemas	D	0 pts
43	Edwin de Kuyper	NL	0 pts
44	Gerwen Hol	NL	0 pts
45	Youri van Rossem	B	0 pts
46	Kevin Krollmann	D	0 pts
47	Maya Willockx	B	0 pts
48	Yannick Putzeys	B	0 pts
49	Jan de Boey	B	0 pts
50	Peter Dvorsky	SVK	0 pts
51	Adrian Hruska	SVK	0 pts
52	Yannick de Meyer	B	0 pts
53	Jurgen Geeraerts	B/SVK	0 pts
54	Patrik Zrubec	SVK	0 pts
55	Valentin Wouttiseh	F	0 pts
56	Christophe Vanginderachter	B	0 pts
57	Andy Geeraerts	B/SVK	0 pts
2000 WORLD CUP SLOT-RACING, FINAL STANDINGS Pos. Team Soccer Concourse 1 Race # 1 Race # 2 Concourse 2 Race # 3 Race #4 Total points 1. BELGIUM 100 45 39 32 38 47 46 347 2. Spain 60 31 55 65 22 39 42 314 3. Holland 15 40 20 23 63 24 12 197 4. Germany 5 24 40 22 0 26 31 147 5. France 40 0 5 14 8 17 16 100 6. Slovakia 30 10 3 6 19 9 15 92
COMPLETE RACE RESULTS OF THE 2000 IMCA NATS

October 21, 2000 World Cup, round #1 of 4, 6 x 5’ – Roeselare (B) 6.854 kms (13.709 kph).
Pos	Driver	Car	Cat.	Team	TeamPts	Result
1.	Kurt Petri/Thomas Hahnel	#1 Mercedes CLK-LM	GT1	Germany	20	224 laps
2.	Geert Mertens/Peter Ackermans	#11 Mercedes CLK-GTR	GT1	Belgium	15	221 laps
3.	Ivan Basas/Xavier Prat	#7 Porsche 911 GT1-98	GT1	Spain	12	218 laps
4.	J. P. van Rossem/N. van den Abeele	#12 Mercedes CLK-GTR	GT1	Belgium	10	217 laps
5.	Guillermo Serrano sr./Mauro Balaguer	#8 Porsche 911 GT1-98	GT1	Spain	8	217 laps
6.	Ralph Klose/Axel Bernhard	#2 Mercedes CLK-LM	GT1	Germany	6	215 laps
7.	Hugo Dekker/Ben de Hartog	#5 Jever Porsche 911 GT1-98	GT1	Holland	4	214 laps
8.	Sylvain Pigny/Henrique Dehais	#48 Porsche 911 GT1 Evo	GT1	France	3	210 laps
9.	Bernat Basas/Jordi-Joan Tasias	#56 Roock Porsche 911 GT2	GT2	Spain	20	209 laps
10.	Paul Uylenberg/John van Hoornaar	#6 Jever Porsche 911 GT1-98	GT1	Holland	2	208 laps
11.	Marc Joyeux/Stéphane Bourdeau	#100 Honda NSX GT-R	GT1	France	1	207 laps
12.	Josef Miskolci/Lubomir Kamenistiak	#3 Panoz Esperante GT1-R	GT1	Slovakia	0	205 laps
13.	Guillermo Serrano jr./Bernat Solsona	#57 Roock Porsche 911 GT2	GT2	Spain	15	204 laps
14.	Dirk Wittevrongel/Jaroslaw Miskolci	#99 Panoz Esperante GT1-R	GT1	Slovakia	0	194 laps
15.	Patrik Brau/Norman Grund	#52 Chrysler Viper GTS-R	GT2	Germany	12	181 laps
16.	"Piki" van Rossem/Youri van Rossem	#53 Chrysler Viper GTS-R	GT2	Belgium	10	179 laps
17.	Gerwen Hol/Dennis Vogel	#65 Konrad Porsche 911 GT2	GT2	Holland	8	179 laps
18.	Edwin de Kuyper/Ben Moen	#70 Konrad Porsche 911 GT2	GT2	Holland	6	176 laps
19.	Mike Timmermans/Maya Willockx	#61 Krauss Porsche 911 GT2	GT2	Belgium	4	175 laps
20.	Peter Dvorsky/Adrian Hruska	#35 Taisan Porsche 911 GT2	GT2	Slovakia	3	171 laps
21.	Florian Both/Michael Niemas	#51 Chrysler Viper GTS-R	GT2	Germany	2	171 laps
22.	Benjamin Gonthier/Romain Guernon	#30 SOK Porsche 911 GT2	GT2	France	1	157 laps
23.	David Bernard/Valentin Wouttiseh	#60 Playstation Porsche 911 GT2	GT2	France	0	DISQ
24.	Patrik Zrubec/Jurgen Geeraerts	#79 Nine-Ten Porsche 911 RSR	GT2	Slovakia	0	DISQ
Scoring system individual classification: 20-15-12-10-8-6-4-3-2-1. Positions Individual World Cup (Internationals & Juniors) after 1 round out of 4: 1. Kurt Petri 20, 2. Thomas Hahnel 20, 3. Geert Mertens 15, 4. Peter Ackermans 15, 5. Ivan Basas 32, 6. Xavier Prat 32,, 7. Jean Pierre van Rossem 10, 8. Nicolas van den Abeele 10, 9. Guillermo Serrano sr 8, 10. Mauro Balaguer 8, 11. Ralph Klose 6, 12. Axel Bernhard 6, 13. Hugo Dekker 4, 14. Ben den Hartog 4, 15. Sylvain Pigny 3, 16. Henrique Dehais 3, 17. Bernat Basas 2, 18. Jordi-Joan Tasias 2, 19. Paul Uylenberg 1 and 20. John van Hoornaar 1. Positions Individual World Cup (Juniors): 1. Bernat Basas and Jordi-Joan Tasias 20, 3. Guillermo Serrano jr. and Bernat Solsona 15, 5. Patrick Brau and Norman Grund 12, 7. 'Piki' van Rossem and Youri van Rossem 10, 9. Gerwen Hol and Dennis Vogel 8, 11. Edwin de Kuyper and Ben Moen 6, 13. Mike Timmermans and Maya Willockx 4, 15. Peter Dvorsky and Adrian Hruska 3, 17. Florian Both and Michael Niemas 2, 19. Benjamin Gonthier and Romain Guernon 1.

 

October 21, 2000 World Cup, round #2 of 4, 6 x 5’ – Roeselare (B) 7.466 kms (14.933 kph).
Pos	Driver	Car	Cat.	Team	TeamPts	Result
1.	Ivan Basas/Xavier Prat	#7 Porsche 911 GT1-98	GT1	Spain	20	244 laps
2.	Geert Mertens/Peter Ackermans	#11 Mercedes CLK-GTR	GT1	Belgium	15	242 laps
3.	Hugo Dekker/Ben den Hartog	#5 Jever Porsche 911 GT1-98	GT1	Holland	12	235 laps
4.	Guillermo Serrano sr./Mauro Balaguer	#8 Porsche 911 GT1-98	GT1	Spain	10	233 laps
5.	J. P. van Rossem/"Piki" van Rossem	#12 Mercedes CLK-GTR	GT1	Belgium	8	233 laps
6.	Kurt Petri/Thomas 'Boum-Boum' Hahnel	#1 Mercedes CLK-LM	GT1	Germany	6	233 laps
7.	Josef Miskolci/Lubomir Kamenistiak	#3 Panoz Esperante GT1-R	GT1	Slovakia	4	232 laps
8.	Sylvain Pigny/Henrique Dehais	#48 Porsche 911 GT1 Evo	GT1	France	3	232 laps
9.	Paul Uylenberg/John van Hoornaar	#6 Jever Porsche 911 GT1-98	GT1	Holland	2	208 laps
10.	Guillermo Serrano jr./Bernat Solsona	#57 Roock Porsche 911 GT2	GT2	Spain	20	218 laps
11.	Marc Joyeux/Stéphane Bourdeau	#100 Honda NSX GT-R	GT1	France	1	216 laps
12.	Bernat Basas/Jordi-Joan Tasias	#56 Roock Porsche 911 GT2	GT2	Spain	15	215 laps
13.	Patrik Brau/Florian Both	#51 Chrysler Viper GTS-R	GT2	Germany	12	212 laps
14.	Benjamin Gonthier/Romain Guernon	#30 SOK Porsche 911 GT2	GT2	France	1	208 laps
15.	Mike Timmermans/Kristof Klinkers	#53 Chrysler Viper GTS-R	GT2	Belgium	8	205 laps
16.	Dirk Wittevrongel/Jaroslaw Miskolci	#99 Panoz Esperante GT1-R	GT1	Slovakia	0	204 laps
17.	Edwin de Kuyper/Ben Moen	#70 Konrad Porsche 911 GT2	GT2	Holland	6	202 laps
18.	Kevin Krollmann/Michael Niemas	#52 Chrysler Viper GTS-R	GT2	Germany	4	200 laps
19.	Gerwen Hol/Denis Vogel	#65 Konrad Porsche 911 GT2	GT2	Holland	3	196 laps
20.	Manfred Stork/Werner Grund	#2 Mercedes CLK-LM	GT1	Germany	0	192 laps
21.	Adrian Hruska/Yannick Demeyer	#35 Taisan Porsche 911 GT2	GT2	Slovakia	2	191 laps
22.	Maya Willockx/Christ. Van Ginderachter	#61 Krauss Porsche 911 GT2	GT2	Belgium	1	177 laps
23.	Patrik Zrubec/Peter Dvorsky	#79 Nine-Ten Porsche 911 RSR	GT2	Slovakia	0	175 laps
24.	David Bernard/Valentin Wouttiseh	#60 Playstation Porsche 911 GT2	GT2	France	0	155 laps
Scoring system individual classification: 20-15-12-10-8-6-4-3-2-1. Positions Individual World Cup (Internationals & Juniors) after 2 rounds out of 4: 1. Ivan Basas 32, 2. Xavier Prat 32, 3. Geert Mertens 30, 4. Peter Ackermans 30, 5. Kurt Petri 26, 6. Thomas Hahnel 26, 7. Jean Pierre van Rossem 18, 8. Guillermo Serrano sr 18, 9. Mauro Balaguer 18, 10. Hugo Dekker 16, 11. Ben den Hartog 16, 12. Nicolas van den Abeele 10, 13. Piki van Rossem 8, 14. Ralph Klose 6, 15. Axel Bernhard 6, 16. Sylvain Pigny 6, 17. Henrique Dehais 6, 18. Jozef Miskolci 4, 19. Lubomir Kamenistiak 4, 20. Paul Uylenberg 3, 21. John van Hoornaar 3, 22. Bernat Basas 2, 23. Jordi-Joan Tasias 2, 24. Guillermo Serrano jr 1, 25. Bernat Solsona 1. Positions Individual World Cup (Juniors): 1. Bernat Basas, 2. Jordi-Joan Tasias 35, 3. Guillermo Serrano jr. 35, 4.  Bernat Solsona 35, 5. 'Piki' van Rossem 30, 6. Patrick Brau 25, 7. Florian Both 15,  8. Edwin de Kuyper 12, 9. Ben Moen 12, 10. Norman Grund 12, 11. Mike Timmermans 12, 12. Benjamin Gonthier 11, 13. Romain Guernon 11, 14. Gerwen Hol 11, 15. Dennis Vogel 11, 16. Youri van Rossem 10,17. Kristof Klinkers 8, 18. Michael Niemas 6, 19. Maya Willockx 5, 20.  Adrian Hruska 4, 21. Kevin Krollmann 4, 22. Peter Dvorsky 3, 23. Yannick de Meyer 2, 24. Christophe Vanginderachter 1.

 

October 22, 2000 World Cup, round #3 of 4, 6 x 5’ [11th BENELUX CUP]– Roeselare (B) 7.191 kms (14.382 kph).
Pos	Driver	Car	Cat.	Team	TeamPts	Result
1.	Kurt Petri/Manfred Stork	#1 Mercedes CLK-LM	GT1	Germany	20	235 laps
2.	Geert Mertens/Jean Pierre  van Rossem	#11 Mercedes CLK-GTR	GT1	Belgium	15	235 laps
3.	Hugo Dekker/John van Hoornaar	#5 Jever Porsche 911 GT1-98	GT1	Holland	12	233 laps
4.	Mauro Ballaguer/Xavier Prat	#8 Porsche 911 GT1-98	GT1	Spain	10	232 laps
5.	Nicolas Van den Abeele/Peter Ackermans	# 12 Mercedes CLK-GTR	GT1	Belgium	8	231 laps
6.	Josef Miskolci/Lubomir Kamenistiak	#99 Panoz Esperante GT1-R	GT1	Slovakia	6	226 laps
7.	Ivan Basas/Guillermo Serrano sr.	#7 Porsche 911 GT1-98	GT1	Spain	4	226 laps
8.	Stéphane Bourdeau/Henrique Dehais	#48 Porsche 911 GT1 Evo	GT1	France	3	225 laps
9.	"Piki" van Rossem/Mike Timmermans	#53 Chrysler Viper GTS-R	GT2	Belgium	20	221 laps
10.	Marc Joyeux/Sylvain Pigny	#100 Honda NSX GT-R	GT1	France	2	221 laps
11.	Paul Uylenberg/Ben de Hartog	#6 Jever Porsche 911 GT1-98	GT1	Holland	1	221 laps
12.	Ralph Klose/Axel Bernhard	#2 Mercedes CLK-LM	GT1	Germany	0	220 laps
13.	Bernat Basas/Bernat Solsona	#56 Roock Porsche 911 GT2	GT2	Spain	15	220 laps
14.	Dirk Wittevrongel/Jaroslaw Miskolci	#3 Panoz Esperante GT1-R	GT1	Slovakia	0	218 laps
15.	David Bernard/Benjamin Gonthier	#30 SOK Porsche 911 GT2	GT2	France	12	212 laps
16.	Jordi-Joan Tasias/Guillermo Serrano jr.	#57 Roock Porsche 911 GT2	GT2	Spain	10	207 laps
17.	Ben Moen/Denis Vogel	#70 Konrad Porsche 911 GT2	GT2	Holland	8	207 laps
18.	Kevin Krollmann/Patrik Brau	#51 Chrysler Viper GTS-R	GT2	Germany	6	206 laps
19.	Yannick Putzeys/Jan de Boey	#61 Krauss Porsche 911 GT2	GT2	Belgium	4	203 laps
20.	Edwin de Kuyper/Gerwen Hol	#65 Konrad Porsche 911 GT2	GT2	Holland	3	199 laps
21.	Yannick de Meyer/Jurgen Geeraerts	#79 Nine-Ten Porsche 911 RSR	GT2	Slovakia	2	188 laps
22.	Peter Dvorsky/Patrik Zrubec	#35 Taisan Porsche 911 GT2	GT2	Slovakia	1	188 laps
23.	Romain Guernon/Valentin Wouttiseh	#60 Playstation Porsche 911 GT2	GT2	France	0	183 laps
24.	Florian Both/Norman Grund	#52 Chrysler Viper GTS-R	GT2	Germany	0	179 laps
Scoring system individual classification: 20-15-12-10-8-6-4-3-2-1. Positions Individual World Cup (Internationals & Juniors) after 3 rounds out of 4: 1. Kurt Petri 46, 2. Geert Mertens 45, 3. Xavier Prat 42, 4. Peter Ackermans 38, 5. Ivan Basas 36, 6. Jean Pierre van Rossem 33, 7. Mauro Balaguer 28, 8. Hugo Dekker 28, 9. Thomas Hahnel 26, 10. Guillermo Serrano sr 22, 11. Manfred Stork 20,  12. Nicolas van den Abeele 18, 13. Ben den Hartog 16, 14. John van Hoornaar 15, 15. Piki van Rossem 10, 16. Sylvain Pigny 10, 17. Jozef Miskolci 10, 18. Lubomir Kamenistiak 10, 19. Ralph Klose 6, 20. Axel Bernhard 6, 21. Henrique Dehais 6, 22. Paul Uylenberg 3, 23. Stéphane Bourdeau 3, 24. Bernat Basas 2, 25. Jordi-Joan Tasias 2, 26. Mike Timmermans 2, 27. Guillermo Serrano jr 1, 28. Bernat Solsona 1, 29. Marc Joyeux 1. Positions Individual World Cup (Juniors): 1ex. 'Piki' van Rossem 50, 1ex. Bernat Basas 50, 1ex.  Bernat Solsona 50, 4. Jordi-Joan Tasias 45, 5. Guillermo Serrano jr. 45,  6. Mike Timmermans 32, 7. Patrick Brau 31, 8. Benjamin Gonthier 23, 9. Ben Moen 20, 10. Dennis Vogel 19, 11. Florian Both 15,  12. Edwin de Kuyper 15, 13. Gerwen Hol 14, 14. Norman Grund 12, 15. David Bernard 12, 16. Romain Guernon 11, 17. Youri van Rossem 10, 81. Kevin Krollmann 10, 19. Kristof Klinkers 8, 20. Michael Niemas 6, 21. Maya Willockx 5, 22.  Adrian Hruska 4, 23. Yannick Putzeys 4, 24. Jan de Boey 4, 25. Peter Dvorsky 4, 26. Yannick de Meyer 4, 27. Jurgen Geeraerts 2, 28. Christophe Vanginderachter 1, 29. Patrik Zrubec 1.

 

Soccer Results were:

¼ finals:  

Belgium – Holland  11 – 2
[with goals for Belgium by Youri van Rossem (2), Piki van Rossem (3), Yannick Putzeys (2), Nico Claessen (2), Kristof Klinkers (2)]

France – Germany 11 – 1

Slovakia – Spain       0 – 2

½ finals:  

Belgium – Slovakia  8 – 1
[with goals for Belgium by Youri van Rossem (1), Piki van Rossem (1), Yannick Putzeys (3), Nico Claessen (1),  Kristof Klinkers (1), Christophe van Ginderachter (1)]

France – Spain 1 – 2

finals:  

Belgium – Spain               9 – 1
[with goals for Belgium by Youri van Rossem (1), Piki van Rossem (4), Yannick Putzeys (1), Nico Claessen (1), Jean-Marie Pfaff (2)]

France –Slovakia              4 – 1

Holland – Germany       11 – 2