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.