Louis Christen Racing
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Louis Christen Racing, commonly known as LCR, is a Swiss sidecar manufacturer named after founder Louis Christen. LCR sidecars have dominated sidecar road racing winning 23 World Sidecar Championships including every one of Steve Webster's 10 world championships.
LCR started in 1971 building open wheel racing cars, Formula Vee, Formula Ford and Formula 3.
In 1976 the first LCR sidecar was designed. From 1983 to 1989 they produced a series of successful monocoque frames for the 80 cc and 125 cc Grand-Prix solo classes. The Zündapp works team and later Krauser were using 80 cc frames and driver Stefan Dörflinger twice won the World Championship. There were several Grand Prix wins in the 125 class with MBA- engines.
In 2006 LCR expanded into the Formula 2 sidecar class, supplying two sidecars for the Isle of Man TT, including the one campaigned by Manxmen Nick Crowe and Daniel Sayle that set a new lap record.
For the 2007 Superside season LCRs make up all but three of the permanent teams.