IDM at the Sachsenring: on Monday and Tuesday (September 7th and 8th)

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IDM at the Sachsenring: on Monday and Tuesday (September 7th and 8th)
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IDM at the Sachsenring: on Monday and Tuesday (September 7th and 8th)

IDM on Monday and Tuesday (September 7th and 8th)
After 7 years back on the Sachsenring

A cool head is required when fighting for the title in the International German Motorcycle Championship (IDM). This is especially true for the comeback of the championship at the Sachsenring 2020.


Dirk Johae

09/01/2020

For the event, which is unusually held on a Monday and a Tuesday, the action is compressed into two instead of three days. The following applies: From free practice to the second race, you can’t afford to make any mistakes. Strong local heroes and Sachsenring connoisseurs meet the other IDM elite in all classes. This gives the IDM races at the Sachsenring additional edge.
Spectators are also not allowed at the Sachsenring. But all races will via livestream at idm.de/live transfer.

IDM Superbike: Jonas Folger’s parade route

Looking back at the season opener in Assen, Superbike frontrunner Jonas Folger says in an interview with Motorsport Aktuell about the IDM: “I was excited for a national championship and I appreciate the level.” The 156-time World Championship pilot safely won both races at the IDM opener. Two more are to follow if possible at the Sachsenring. This would create the best starting position for the 27-year-old for the second half of the season. The Yamaha rider celebrated his greatest MotoGP success three years ago on the racetrack in Saxony: he fought for the lead with multiple world champion Marc Marquez and ultimately came in second. Folger also demonstrated his extra class at the IDM opener in Assen, especially at the beginning of the second race: With a rocket launch, he shot forward from the third row of the inverted grid. He won 3.621 seconds ahead of defending champions Ilya Mikhalchik and Florian Alt (both BMW).


IDM at the Sachsenring: on Monday and Tuesday (September 7th and 8th)


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The Supersport 600 at the IDM season start 2020 in Assen: Steeman (# 72) at the top. Kroeze (# 36), Noderer (# 7), Hanika (# 98) and Grunwald (# 43) also push themselves in front of the camera lens.

Persecutor Ilya Mikhalchik: With bitter disappointment in the bag

The two-time IDM Superbike champion Ilya Mikhalchik travels to the second IDM event with bad morals. The 24-year-old BMW driver took responsibility for his failure at the Le Mans 24-hour race last weekend. Twelve minutes before the end of the race, the Ukrainian fell while running for the endurance world championship. His injury, which could be treated directly on the track in the Medical Center, hurt the two-time IDM champion far less than the zero number for the BMW works team: “My mistake”, confesses Mikhalchik. “I was traveling too fast in my stint. The other guys were slower, but I kept my pace.”

The pressure on the defending champion is growing

How quickly can the ambitious driver of the EGS-alpha-Van Zon-BMW team forget the Le Mans retirement? In the two IDM races at the Sachsenring, Mikhalchik has to do everything possible to keep the gap to followers as small as possible. Two second places behind the IDM leader are actually mandatory in order to have further chances for the championship. Like Assen, the Sachsenring is considered a successor country. Thanks to his track knowledge from two IDM seasons, Mikhalchik could then have advantages at the Lausitzring on the weekend immediately following and at the finale at the Hockenheimring. “I know these two routes the least”, said Folger in an MSa interview. Nevertheless, the Yamaha rider looks casually on the second half of the short season: “But I can quickly adjust to new routes.”

Florian Alt defies his test deficit

On the other hand, Florian Alt from Le Mans can start his journey to the Sachsenring with satisfaction. The 24-year-old from Gummersbach and his team inherited fifth place in the race at the endurance world championship in Le Mans due to the failure of the BMW works team and comes third in the IDM to the German MotoGP circuit. Despite a large test deficit with the Wilbers team’s BMW S 1000 RR, he follows the two IDM leaders Jonas Folger and Ilya Mikhalchik directly after the season opener in Assen. Only eight points separate him from his brand colleague Mikhalchik in the IDM Superbike. Alt has an advantage over his brand colleague and defending champion for the second IDM event: he already knows the Sachsenring.

Schedule IDM Sachsenring 2020


IDM at the Sachsenring: on Monday and Tuesday (September 7th and 8th)


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A total of 10 races will take place on Tuesday, September 8th.

IDM Supersport 600: Sander Kroeze has to prove himself

The fast, only 18-year-old Dutchman Sander Kroeze meets the local hero Max Enderlein at the Sachsenring. The two-time IDM Supersport 600 champion is at home near the track and knows the 3.67-kilometer-long up and down cable car very well. Kroeze leads in the championship after the opener on his home track. But next to Enderlein there is another pursuer on his neck: Kawasaki driver Luca Grunwald comes to the Sachsenring with the same number of points as defending champion Enderlein. Glenn van Straalen is already lurking behind. The Dutch World Championship driver in the Supersport 300 registered with his Supersport 600 Kawasaki in Assen for a short time in the IDM. A fall in Assen, however, lessened the point yield. IDM returnees Victor Steeman also lost valuable points due to a fall. But the Dutchman from the new Lentink Sports team won the first race and is also one of the big favorites of the IDM Supersport 600.

IDM Superstock 600: ex-IDM master Jan-Ole Jahnig returns

In 2017 Jan-Ole Jahnig won the IDM Supersport 300, which was held for the first time, and then rose to the world championship with the Freudenberg team. Last year the KTM rider from Thuringia finished eighth in the World Championship. Now the corona pandemic is blocking him from further starts: The coming races will take place in Aragon and Catalonia (Barcelona). That is why the 19-year-old Altenburger is returning to the IDM, but has signed up for the IDM Superstock 600. In the near-series class, Jahnig starts with a Yamaha and meets the Belgian Tom Kohnen, who won both races in Assen, the 600 climber Tim Holtz and the 18-year-old local hero Paul Frode. The Hohenstein Ernstthaler holds the Honda flag high in this class.

IDM Supersport 300: Melvin van der Voort wants to defend the lead

They speak Dutch: In no other class is this as true as in the junior class. This is mainly due to the excellent youth work in the neighboring country. The 15-year-old Melvin van der Voort comes to the Sachsenring with his Yamaha as the IDM front runner. With Rick Dunnik, last year’s runner-up, he is followed by the next fast compatriot. Luca de Vleeschauwer introduced herself to the IDM as third overall. The Belgian drives for the RT Motorsports by SKM-Kawasaki team, which competes in the IDM with a total of five Ninja 400s. Marvin Siebdrath, the fastest German driver, is also starting for this team, which is active in the Supersport 300 World Championship at the same time. The 16-year-old local hero from Wildenfels near Zwickau is hoping for a leap forward in the IDM standings from the start on his home track. The young Kawasaki rider is currently sixth.

Local heroes against an international starting field

But the Australian Harry Khouri on Kawasaki and the Dutch Ruben Bijman on a Yamaha want to improve their position in the championship in Saxony. In Assen, Khouri dropped valuable points due to a fall in the first run, but won the blink of an eye final in the second race. Lennox Lehmann and master Toni Erhard, both on KTM, are waiting for an advantage through their good track knowledge. Erhard, the IDM champion from 2018, won a 300cc frame race at the German Grand Prix at the Sachsenring in the same year. He kept the upper hand against the world championship pilot Jan-Ole Jahnig. The only 14-year-old Lehmann won the ADAC Junior Cup race on the track last year, one of a total of six race wins for the eventual overall winner.

IDM 2020 dates:

  • September 7th and 8th: IDM Sachsenring
  • September 11th to 13th: IDM Lausitzring
  • September 25th to 27th: IDM Hockenheimring

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