Etienne Bax

Etienne Bax (born 9 August 1988) is a Dutch sidecarcross rider and the 2015, 2017, 2019 and 2021 World Champion. He also became a three-time runner-up, having come second overall in 2012, 2013 and 2014.

Bax has also won the Dutch national championship on five occasions, in 2010, 2011, 2012, 2014 and 2015.

Racing career Dutch National Championship Racing from an early age Bax first took part in the Dutch amateur championship which he won in 2004. From 2007 he entered the Dutch national championship, coming fourth in its first season there. Bax repeated this result in 2008 and 2009 before taking out three consecutive national titles from 2010 to 2012, the first two with Ben van den Bogaart as his passenger, the third with Kaspars Stupelis. After another fourth place in 2013 Bax won his fourth national title in 2014, again with Stupelis as his passenger and repeated this result in 2015.

Bax came second in the WC for a third consecutive time in 2014, finishing eighteen points behind Adriaenssen. Bax and Stupelis won eight races that season and five Grand Prix and dominated the final three events of the year, but having the last race of the season, in Rudersberg, cancelled because of bad weather.

Bax, with Stupelis as his passenger once more, won the 2015 Sidecarcross World Championship, taking out the title in the second-last event of the season. In October 2015 it was announced that Bax would race with his younger brother Robbie as passenger instead of Stupelis in 2016 and that the team would switch to Yamaha engines. Lack of engine performance forced Bax to switch back, with the approval from Yamaha, from a four-stroke Yamaha to a two-stroke Zabel engine in an attempt to achieve better results and podium finishes.

Personal life He is the older brother of Robbie Bax (born 18 October 1991) who himself is active in the Sidecarcross World Championship as a passenger and who raced with Etienne in the early days of their careers.

Etienne Bax used to be a roofer by profession before he turned full professional in 2015 and lives in Bergeijk, North Brabant. He is married and has a daughter (born in 2014) and a son (born in 2018)

Season by season World Championship The season by season results in the World Championship for Etienne Bax: Season Passenger Equipment Position Points Races Wins Second Third2007 Marc van DeutekomZabel-VMC 215214———2008 Marc van DeutekomZabel-VMC1024024——12009 Marc van DeutekomZabel-VMC830022—1—2010 Ben van den BogaartZabel-EML4456282522011 Ben van den BogaartZabel-VMC5347233342012 Kaspars StupelisZabel-WSP 2447229812013 Kaspars StupelisZabel-VMC 251325156—2014 Kaspars StupelisZabel-WSP 2402198532015 Kaspars StupelisZabel-WSP 16753016732016 Robbie BaxYamaha-WSPZabel-WSP Overall 2007 – 20153,432207533414

Championships overview 200720082009201020112012201320142015 World Championship21 10 8 4 5 2 2 2 1 Dutch National Championship 4 4 4 1 1 1 4 1 1

Key 1 Champions 2 Runners-up 3 Third placed 4 – 10 Driver finished fourth to tenth

Honours Sidecarcross World Championship Winner: (2) 2015, 2017 Runners-up: (3) 2012–2014 Dutch National Sidecarcross Championship Winners: (4) 2010–2012, 2014, 2015