Car manufacturing: All about the records of Louis Christen
BACKGROUND World champion designs and winning sidecar teams, as well as two- and four-wheeled vehicles by Louis Christen from eastern Switzerland, are on display in a special exhibition at the autobau Erlebniswelt in Romanshorn.
Until September 4, the special show Louis Christen Racing provides an insight into the designs that the man from Rheineck has created over the past 45 years. The spectrum ranges from motorcycles and sidecar teams to formula racing cars. Since 1985, the former racing driver had also been involved in various innovative electric mobility projects.
World championship titles and victories
In 1973 Christen (top center gallery) founded the company LCR (Louis Christen Racing), where more than 800 motorcycles, sidecars and formula racing cars as well as prototypes such as the battery-powered Stromboli (bottom left gallery) or ultra-fast dragsters were built. More than 40 world championship titles as well as countless victories of renowned racing drivers became possible with LCR constructions.
Award for Fredy Lienhard
Paul Gutjahr, representing the Swiss Auto Sport Association, paid tribute to Louis Christen's achievements, as well as those of seven-time sidecar world champion Rolf Biland and sidecar and truck racer Markus Bösiger, both of whom had worked with the East Swiss constructor. This was accompanied by their induction into the Wall of Fame.
Earlier, Gutjahr presented the founder of autobaus, Fredy Lienhard, with the Auto Sport Schweiz Award, the association's highest recognition, for his commitment as a racing driver, in racing and for creating autobaus, "a magical and unique meeting place".
