International Road Racing Championship

The International Road Racing Championship (IRRC) is a European motorcycle race.

History

The motor clubs HAMOVE (Hengelo Gld, The Netherlands), KV Ostend Motorsport (Oostende, Belgium) and MSC Frohburger Dreieck (Frohburg, Germany) started an international competition in 2003 called the ‘3 nations cup’. The goal of this cup was an international competition between 10 Dutch drivers, 10 Belgium drivers and 10 German drivers. The total competition existed of 6 matches, 2 at every event. Since 2010 the competition extended to more events and more nations as IRRC.

In the first few years the Belgium drivers got most of the prizes but the last few years the Dutch and German riders got better resulting in the first prize in the last years going to the German rider Didier Grams and last year to the Dutch rider Branko Srdanov.

The competition had some excellent drivers, like Bob Withag, Swen Ahnendorp, Bas Winkel, Robert Menzen and Wim Theunissen (The Netherlands), Sebastien Le Grelle, Kris Jennes, Alex Verleye, Stefan Demeulemeester, Denny Lannoo and Gregory Fastre (Belgium), Didier Grams, Bernd Scheeder, Udo Reichmann, Thomas Kreutz and Rico Penzkofer (Germany).

In 2009 more circuits approached the organisation of the ‘3 nations cup’ to join the competition in 2010. Riders from countries other than the organising countries had the same question. So it was time for a change, time for a new competition with a new name. The new name was International Road Racing Championship (IRRC). The goal was the same: an international competition on road circuits. The number of circuits in the competition was expanded in 2010. Besides the races in Hengelo Gld, Oostende and Frohburg there are races at Chimay (Belgium) and Schleiz (Germany). This year there was another change with the inclusion of the Terlicko circuit in the Czech Republic andonly one event in Belgium. There is no race in Oostende because of reconstruction work on and next to the circuit. If the competition comes there back again, only the future can tell.

IRRC circuits