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Emil Bollhalder made his debut in national and international sidecarcross in 1974. He successfully raced in the Swiss championship, finishing runners-up as well as in the FIM-Cup, the predecessor of the European Championship, where he came tenth. In both competitions he used Ruedi Kasper as his passenger.
From 1975 he switched to Roland Bollhalder as his passenger, who he would race with, except for a brief interruption in 1976 until the end of the 1979 season. In this era, the Bollhalder's achieved good results in the Swiss championship but were unable to better
Robert Grogg
Robert Grogg (born 1948) is a retired Swiss sidecarcross rider and triple Sidecarcross European Champion, having won the competition in 1976, 1977 and 1978, together with his passenger Andreas Hüsser. He has also won the FIM-Cup, the predecesso ...
at the time, who dominated the national competition. Internationally, the situation was similar with the duo always finishing high in the top ten of the competition now renamed European Championship. There however the duo experienced some success in 1979, being able to outscore Robert Grogg and his passenger
Andreas Hüsser
Andreas Hüsser (born 10 February 1954) is a retired Swiss sidecarcross passenger and dual Sidecarcross World Champion, having won the competition in 1988 and 1989 as passenger of Christoph Hüsser, his older twin brother.
and winning the last edition of the European Championship.
The first season of the new World Championship proved unsuccessful for Bollhalder, now with new passenger Ruedi Manser. The new team took part in only two events this season and came 24th overall. In the Swiss championship they did not compete at all that year.
For 1981 he switched passengers again, now riding with Karl Büsser for the most part of the season. With Büsser results improved and the new team came second in Switzerland and fourth in the World Championship.
The 1982 and 1983 seasons were dominated by the team of Bollhalder and Büsser, both nationally and internationally. The two won the Swiss championship in both years, as they did the World Championship. In the later, on both occasions, they relegated the German team of Josef Brockhausen and Hubert Rebele to second place, by 62 points in 1982 and 11 points in 1983.
Emil Bollhalder retired from national and international competition after the end of the 1983 season, as did Karl Büsser.Karl Büsser Sidecarcross World championship results The John Davey Pages, accessed: 21 October 2013
Racing record
Sidecarcross World Championship
The competition which was to become the Sidecarcross World Championship in 1980 originated as the FIM Cup in 1971 and was renamed to European championship in 1975. Emil Bollhalder's results in these competitions were:.