Adrian Bosshard

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Adrian "Adi" Bosshard (born March 19, 1962 in Zurich ) is a Swiss motorcycle racer and entrepreneur .

Life

Adrian Bosshard grew up in Nidau and Port near Biel . He rode motocross from the age of 16, completed an apprenticeship as a car mechanic after four years and studied marketing and business administration at the Institute for Management Training in Bern .

Athletic career

1980 Bosshard started after a license elimination in 1979 in the junior 500 cm³ class in motocross and rose in the next few years up to the highest Swiss motocross category Inter 500. He then became Swiss runner-up three times. In 1988 and 1989 he became Swiss Motocross Champion. He then switched to the streets , initiated by his friend Hans Mühlebach , who was the largest Honda dealer in Switzerland at the time, and in 1990 became a wild card holder on a Honda RC30 Swiss road champion . From 1992 to 1994 (1994 together with Ralf Waldmann ) he competed at Honda with a factory machine, which Hans Mühlebach contributed, world championship races in the 250 cm³ class with the best result of 10th place at the Grand Prix of Europe in Barcelona in 1994. For two years he switched to the 500 cc class of the world championship and was also able to achieve a 10th place as the best result in 1995 at the British Grand Prix in Donington Park .

This makes him the first driver in motorsport history to win championship points in both motocross and motorcycle road races.

Adrian Bosshard already had contact with watch companies during his racing career and met Marc Hayek at the Automotodrom Brno in Brno , with whom he also trained. He was supported by Longines in 1994 and sponsored by Certina in 1995/1996 in the 500 cc class as part of the Elf 500 team . He was the last Swiss regular driver in this class until 2018 after 22 years at the start of the season in Qatar, the Swiss Tom Lüthi , whose first sponsor was Bosshard from 2001 to 2008.

Economic career

In 1996 he ended his racing career and worked as a salesperson / sales representative at Certina, of which he became president in 2003.

In addition, at the end of 2006 he took over the management of what was then the Union Glashütte project with the task of building up the brand and two years later became President of the Union Glashütte SA brand. He is also president of two well-known watch manufacturers. He also coordinates the Swatch Group's business in Eastern Europe (as well as Uzbekistan , Kazakhstan and Mongolia ).

Sporting commitment

As CEO and Managing Director of Certina he was from 2005 mainly responsible for 10 years to support the Formula 1 - BMW Sauber teams.

As President and Managing Director of Union Glashütte, from 2014 onwards he intensified the collaboration with the Reiter Engineering Team and the developed SaReNi Camaro GT3 in the ADAC GT Masters . Union Glashütte was also a partner at the Sachsen Classic.

In addition, he promotes the youngsters in motocross.

Private

Adrian Bosshard is married, has three children and lives in Biel.

successes

Swiss Motocross Championship

season class position
1988 500 cc 1.
1989 500 cc 1.

Swiss road championship

season class position
1990 250 cc 1.

Motorcycle EM

season class position
1991 250 cc 5.

Motorcycle World Championship

season class motorcycle run Victories Podiums Poles Points position
1992 250 cc Honda 13 - - - 0 -
1993 250 cc Honda 14th - - - 21st 20th
1994 250 cc Honda 12 - - - 34 14th
1995 500 cc ROC- Yamaha 13 - - - 21st 17th
1996 500 cc ROC Yamaha 10 - - - 0 -
total 62 0 0 0 76

Superbike World Championship

season team motorcycle run Victories Podiums Poles Points position
1990 Bosshard Honda RC30 2 - - - 5 59.
total 2 0 0 0 5

literature

  • "That motivates a lot." In: Bilanz - The German business magazine . December 2018, p. 82 ff. (Interview).
  • Adrian Bosshard - from Swiss champion to top manager. In: Motonews. No. 4/2014, p. 36 ff.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Klaus Zaugg: Motorcycle: As a pensioner, still in racing fever. In: Lucerne newspaper . December 15, 2015, accessed December 2, 2018 .
  2. ^ A b Günther Wiesinger: Adrian Bosshard: Ex-racing driver as Certina President / MotoGP. In: Speedweek . June 2, 2016, accessed December 1, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Tom Lüthi meets his MotoGP predecessor Adi Bosshard. In: look . March 13, 2018, accessed December 2, 2018 .
  4. ^ Francois-Michel Gregoire: Who Works in Formula One 2006 . Who Works Sports Publications, 2006, ISBN 1-901711-42-0 , pp. 312 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  5. ↑ Thomas Wanka: 3 questions to Adrian Bosshard. In: Watchtime.net. October 10, 2014, accessed December 1, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Union Glashütte: Commitment to racing in the ADAC GT Masters. In: New watches. The online magazine. May 22, 2014, accessed December 1, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Sachsen Classic 2012 - The winning watches. Time master for the winner. In: auto motor und sport . August 6, 2012, accessed December 2, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Bosshard, Adrian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bosshard, Adi (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss motocross driver and head of the company
DATE OF BIRTH March 19, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich