Louis Christen Racing
LCR Engineering is a Swiss manufacturer of motorcycle sidecars for road and racing, racing cars and frame for racing motorcycles, established in Rheineck in the canton of St. Gallen.
The abbreviation stands for LCR Louis Christians Racing, named after the company's founder. LCR is since 30 years a pioneer in the development of racing sidecars and dominated sidecar racing
Today, LCR racing teams of the formulas F1 ago ( Sidecar World Cup ) and F2 (Isle of Man TT ).
History
Company founder Louis Christen built in 1971, his first race car, a Formula V vehicle with 1300 cc, with whom he also launched himself at races. Until 1985, a total of 35 race cars LCR classes of formula V ( 1300 and 1600 cm ³ ) Formula Ford (1600 and 2000 cm ³ ) and Formula 3 ago, which won several national championships.
In 1976, the first LCR sidecar was designed with monocoque chassis, the 1977 equips with an additional steering of the sidecar wheel. In the season 1978, the Swiss duo Bruno Holzer / Karl Hans Meier celebrated equipped with a Yamaha engine, the Belgian Grand Prix at Spa- Francorchamps, the first Grand Prix win in the Motorcycle World Championship for LCR. The following year, they won in the category B2B ( teams with one or two driven wheels), with six second-place finishes in six races held on LCR Yamaha the world title. The vehicle used had it on the special feature that the pilot does not, as usual, until then, was kneeling in the machine, but sat. For the 1980 season, the FIM changed the rules and just let teams with conventional configuration ( kneeling driver), after which a completely new machine had to be developed.
The title win in 1979 was the beginning of an ongoing dominance of the LCR sidecars in the Sidecar World Championship. Some of the most successful team pilots at all, as the Swiss Rolf Biland, Steve Webster from the UK or the Netherlands Egbert won spreader, equipped with Yamaha, Krauser, or Suzuki engines over 100 Grand Prix and World Cup races.
Between 1983 and 1989, LCR also monocoque frame for 80 - or 125 - forth cc racing motorcycles that were in the Motorcycle World Championship also very successful. Zündapp and later translated LCR Krauser frame in the 80 cc class and won with the Swiss pilot Stefan Doerflinger 1983 and 1984, in each case once the world title. In the eighth liter class LCR machines celebrated with MBA Motors Grand Prix victories.
In 1986, in cooperation with LCR Krauser Krauser Domani the - road trailer before, which was equipped with a BMW engine and built more than 100 times. In addition, LCR constructed in 1987 along with another company, a solar car, which participated in the Tour de Sol. Furthermore, there's an LCR Dragster, the 1499 cc BMW turbo engine is equipped with over 1000 hp with one that was used by Nelson Piquet in Formula 1.
Team world champion on LCR
LCR teams won in the team until 1996, discharged 14 World Cup title. In the sidecar World Cup, which will be held from the 1997 World Series since the disentanglement of the class, it was so far 15 times victorious.
(yellow background = Sidecar World Cup )