[3] Benny Janssen first entered the Sidecarcross World Championship in 1982 with Frans Geurts van Kessel as his passenger, competing in the Dutch and Belgian Grand Prix and earning three points from those two appearances.

[1] The next two season he exclusively combined with van Kessel again and the pair finished eighth and sixth.

In 1986 the team came sixth once more, in a season where Janssen also briefly used 1981 World Champion Frits Kiggen as his passenger.

The 1989 season saw the pairs best result so far, finishing second in the World Championship, 26 points behind champions Christoph and Andreas Hüsser.

The new combination performed well, eventually taking out the World Championship with a 13-point gap from Germans Michael Garhammer and Ralf Haas.