Andreas Fuhrer Explained

Andreas Fuhrer
Nationality: Switzerland
Birth Date:21 May 1959
Website:Official website
Sa Active Years:1985 - 1996
Sa Championships:(4) 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996
Sa Last Season:1996
Sa Last Position:1st
Sa Last Points:262
Sa Race Starts:232
Sa Race Wins:29
Sa Podiums:76
Sa Total Points:2349

Andreas Fuhrer (born 21 May 1959) is a retired Swiss sidecarcross rider and four times World Champion.

He has also won the Swiss national sidecarcross championship five times, in 1989 and from 1993 to 1996. After his last world championship in 1996, he retired from the sport.

Biography

Fuhrer grew up in Seedorf and is a trained mechanic. He started racing sidecarcross in 1981 and qualified for the world championship for the first time in 1985,[1] racing for the Moto-Club Aarberg.[2]

From 1985 to 1996, he raced in the world championship. Fuhrer earned his first podium in 1987 with passenger Hans Rudolf Stettler. In 1990, he achieved his first race win, at the Swiss GP. After Adrian Käser joined him as a passenger for the 1993 season, the team's fortunes improved dramatically, earning 22 race victories and four world championships together.[3]

Fuhrer retired from the sport in 1996 for mostly financial reasons, finding it difficult to market sidecarcross in comparison to single-rider motocross. He also wished to leave the sport at the height of his career.[4] He stayed away from racing for two years before taking up motocross again, this time in the solo class.[5]

Andreas Fuhrer is married and has three children. He works and lives in Aarberg, where he owns a Kawasaki motocross motorcycle dealership, originally having worked in the local sugar factory.[6]

Sidecarcross world championship results

Season by season

SeasonPassengerEquipmentPositionPointsRacesWinsSecondThird
1985 Fritz FrauchingerYamaha-Wasp26124
Josef Meusburger132
1986 Manfred ForsterKTM - VMC157020
1987 Hans Rudolf StettlerKTM-VMC71551811
1988 Hans Rudolf StettlerKawasaki-VMC32232415
1989 Hans Rudolf StettlerKawasaki-VMC61782033
Sies Hurkmans204
1990 Hans Rudolf StettlerKawasaki-VMC32041833
1991 Hans Rudolf StettlerKawasaki-EML1182611
1992 Hans Rudolf StettlerKawasaki-VMC424624361
1993 Adrian KäserKawasaki-VMC139136725
1994 Adrian KäserKawasaki-VMC12322035
1995 Adrian KäserKawasaki-JHR126116822
1996 Adrian KäserKawasaki-JHR126220433
Overall 1985 - 19962349232292324
Source:Web site: The John Davey Pages - Andreas Fuhrer. 2009-10-27. John Davey .

Honours

World Championship

Switzerland

External links

Notes and References

  1. http://www.fuhrer-cross.ch/1801/index.html Andreas Fuhrer website - Geschichte
  2. http://motoclubaarberg.ch/452.html?*session*id*key*=*session*id*val* Unsere Geschichte
  3. http://thejohndaveypages.org/CV/XXX/CV_XXX_D_Fuhrer_A.htm ANDREAS FUHRER GP RECORD
  4. http://www.munzinger.de/search/portrait/Andreas+Fuhrer/1/4990.html Andreas Fuhrer
  5. http://www.toeff-magazin.ch/sonstiges/ewig-rastlos-516.html Ewig rastlos
  6. http://www.fuhrer-cross.ch/1801/13401.html Andreas Fuhrer website - Portrait