Sidecar World Championship 2013
The Sidecar World Championship 2013 was an international world championship for motorcycle teams organized by the FIM . In 2013 eight races with eleven runs were held. The season was overshadowed by the death of German co-driver Sandor Pohl, who had an accident in the fifth race at the Dutch TT .
Distribution of points
As a rule, two races were held per race weekend in the 2013 season. The sprint race taking place on Saturday corresponded to half the distance of the main race, which was held on Sunday.
Distribution of points | |||||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
space | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4th | 5 | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14th | 15th |
Points | 25th | 20th | 16 | 13 | 11 | 10 | 9 | 8th | 7th | 6th | 5 | 4th | 3 | 2 | 1 |
run
No. | date | World Championship run | route | Track layout | Runs |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | April 14, 2013 | Spain | Motorland Aragón | enema | |
2-3 | June 15 and 16, 2013 | Croatia | Automotodrom Grobnik | two runs | |
4th | June 28, 2013 | Dutch TT | TT Circuit Assen | enema | |
5 | July 14, 2013 | Grand Prix of Germany | Sachsenring | enema | |
6th | 4th August 2013 | Netherlands | TT Circuit Assen | enema | |
7-8 | 17th and 18th August 2013 | Germany | Motorsport Arena Oschersleben | two runs | |
9-10 | August 31 and September 1, 2013 | Germany | Schleizer triangle | two runs | |
11 | 21st September 2013 | France | Circuit Bugatti | enema |
Teams and drivers
(Change of co-drivers possible during the season.)
No. | driver | Co-driver * | Team | team |
---|---|---|---|---|
2 | Jörg Steinhausen |
Ashley Hawes and Grégory Cluze |
LCR - BMW | Steinhausen Racing |
7th | Philippe Gallerne | Christophe Guilliot | RCN- Suzuki | Team Gallerne |
8th | André Kretzer | Jens Lehnertz | LCR - Suzuki | Kretzer nuclear power plant |
10 | Bennie Streuer | Geert Koerts | LCR - Suzuki | Team spreader |
12 | Kurt Hock | Enrico Becker | LCR - Suzuki | Squat racing |
13 | Robert Zimmermann | Manuel Eckert | LCR - Suzuki | Carpenter racing |
16 | Ben Birchall | Thomas Birchall | LCR - Suzuki | Birchall Racing |
17th | Jean-Louis Hergott | Sam Christie | RSR- BMW | France Ouest Racing Team (FORT) |
18th | Uwe Gürck | Axel Koelsch | LCR - Suzuki | GK Racing |
20th | Christian Bruchez | Adrien Bruchez | LCR - Suzuki | Bruchez Racing |
27 | Johan Reuterholt | Peter Wall | ART- Suzuki | Reuterholt Motorsport |
33 | Shaun Heggarty | Calum Lawson | LCR - Suzuki | Heggarty & Lawson Racing Team |
34 | Johan Nussbaum | Tobias Aebischer | LCR - Suzuki | Sicecar team Sense |
42 | Christian Ruppert | Jeffrey Verhagen | LCR - Yamaha | Fun42 Racing Team |
44 | Pekka Päivärinta | Adolf Hänni | LCR - Suzuki | Team Suzuki Finland |
49 | Sophia Kirchhofer | Anna Burkard | LCR - Suzuki | Ladies Team Suisse |
55 | Janez Remse | Jamie Biggs | LCR - Yamaha | Team Remse Racing Sloveni |
56 | Jacob Rutz | Thomas Hofer | LCR - Yamaha | Sidecar Racing Team Rutz |
72 | Scott Lawrie | James Neave | LCR - Suzuki | Team SLR |
73 | Jarno Keppel | Arjen Portijk | LCR - Suzuki | Keppel Sidecar Team |
81 | Kees Kentrop | Danny De Haas | LCR - Yamaha | Connect Roke Racing Team |
97 | Michael Grabmüller | Manfred Wechselberger | LCR - Kawasaki | Police sports club Wels Motorsport |
99 | Petri macularity | Timo Karttiala | LCR - BMW | Team macular |
Driver ranking
Item | driver | Co-driver |
ESP |
CRO |
NED |
DEU |
NED |
DEU |
DEU |
FRA |
Points | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
R1 | R2 | * | R1 | R2 | R1 | R2 | ||||||||
1 | Pekka Päivärinta | Adolf Hänni | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | - | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 202 |
2 | Ben Birchall | Thomas Birchall | 3 | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 191 | ||
3 | Jörg Steinhausen | Grégory Cluze | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 3 | - | 3 | 3 | 4th | 3 | 2 | 178 |
4th | Scott Lawrie | James Neave | 5 | 7th | 2 | 4th | 8th | - | 4th | 4th | 5 | 5 | 108 | |
5 | Kurt Hock | Maik Ziegler | 4th | 3 | 4th | 5 | 5 | 3 | 4th | 5 | 104 | |||
6th | Michael Grabmüller | Manfred Wechselberger | 7th | 5 | 9 | 6th | 5 | - | 9 | 6th | 8th | - | 8th | 81 |
7th | Petri macularity | Timo Karttiala | 9 | 4th | 4th | 20th | 6th | 9 | 6th | 8th | 6th | 78 | ||
8th | Bennie Streuer | Geert Koerts | 6th | 5 | 5 | 10 | - | 8th | 8th | 9 | 11 | 66 | ||
9 | Jacob Rutz | Thomas Hofer | 11 | 8th | 10 | 11 | 11 | - | 11 | 11 | 12 | 9 | 9 | 57 |
10 | Uwe Gürck | Axel Koelsch | 11 | 6th | 9 | 9 | - | 12 | 10 | 11 | 7th | 53 | ||
11 | André Kretzer | Jens Lehnertz | 7th | 7th | 7th | 7th | 5 | 47 | ||||||
12 | Kees Kentrop | Danny De Haas | 8th | 10 | 7th | 7th | - | 13 | 18th | 14th | 13 | 40 | ||
13 | Janez Remse | Jamie Biggs | 12 | 9 | 8th | 8th | 14th | - | 14th | 15th | 13 | 10 | 40 | |
14th | Sébastian Delannoy | Sebastian Lavorel | 10 | 4th | 19th | |||||||||
15th | Jean-Louis Hergott | Sam Christie | 13 | 11 | 15th | 16 | - | 15th | 12 | 11 | 19th | |||
16 | Mike Roscher | Uwe Neubert | 6th | 10 | - | 16 | ||||||||
17th | Stefan Kiser | Sandor Pohl * | 14th | 12 | 10 | 13 | - | DNF | 15th | |||||
18th | Robert Zimmermann | Manuel Eckert | 6th | 12 | DNF | 14th | ||||||||
19th | Sophia Kirchhofer | Anna Burkard | 14th | 13 | 13 | 18th | 19th | 13 | 16 | 14th | 12 | |||
20th | Johan Reuterholt | Peter Wall | 10 | 12 | 10 | |||||||||
21st | Philippe Le Bail | Christian Chaigneau | 7th | 9 | ||||||||||
22nd | Philippe Gallerne | Olivier Lavorel | 14th | - | 13 | 13 | 8th | |||||||
23 | Jonathan Huet | Sebastien Arifon | 10 | 6th | ||||||||||
24 | John Smits | Gunter Verbrugge | 12 | - | 4th | |||||||||
25th | Peter Schröder | Manuel Hirschi | 12 | 4th | ||||||||||
26th | Christian Bruchez | Vincent Manicki | 18th | 19th | 12 | 4th | ||||||||
27 | Hilbert Talens | Use De Haas | 13 | - | 3 | |||||||||
28 | Claude Vinet | Cyril Vinet | 14th | 2 | ||||||||||
29 | Christian Ruppert | Jeffrey Verhagen | 16 | 15th | - | 16 | 16 | 1 | ||||||
30th | Andres Nussbaum | Tobias Aebischer | 15th | 17th | 1 | |||||||||
31 | Josef Sattler | Stefan Trautner | 19th | - |
* The German co-driver Sandor Pohl had a fatal accident at the sixth race of the season in Assen, the Netherlands. The sidecar of the Stefan Kiser / Sandor Pohl team had spun around the corner of Haarbocht and rolled over. Pohl was thrown out of the wreck and hit head-on by the following team, John Smits / Gunter Verbrugge. The run in Assen was then canceled and not counted.