Reto Grütter

Infobox Sidecarcross world championship rider
Name = Reto Grütter
Nicknames =
Nationality = flagicon|Switzerland Switzerland
Birthdate = birth date and age|1984|07|17
Birthplace = Switzerland
Website = [http://www.teamwillemsen.com/ Team Willemsen website]
Current team =
Bike number = 1
Championships = 2007, 2008
Race Starts = 102
Race Wins = 34
Podiums = 35
Poles =
Fastest laps =
Total points = 1055
Last season = 2008
Last position = 1st
Points = 495

Reto Elias Grütter (17 July 1984) is a Swiss sidecarcross passenger and the 2007 and 2008 Sidecarcross world champion.

"Reto Grütter's" name can sometimes be found to be, wrongfully, spelled "Reto Grutter".

Sidecarcross world championship results

Reto Grütter entered the sidecarcross world championship in 2003 as a nineteen year old in the French GP in Pernes Les Fontains, 27 April 2003, becoming the passenger for his countryman Ueli Müller. They raced together in the world championship for four seasons from 2003 to 2006, a 15th place overall in 2005 being their best result but never finishing better then eighth in a race. After the 2006 season, Grütter replaced the Belgian Sven Verbrugge as passenger for Daniël Willemsen who had won his fifth world championship this season. The new combination Willemsen / Grütter dominated the 2007 season in clear fashion, winning 15 out of 16 races and retaining Team Willemsens world championship. Grütter won his first GP on 9 April 2007 in the season opener in Oldebroek, Netherlands. On top of the world championship, the combination also took out the Dutch title. In the 2008 season, Grütter continued to race with Willemsen [ [http://www.xs4all.nl/%7Ehanvu/oss_entrylist.PDF ENTRYLIST WC SIDECAR MX - OSS (NL)] ] but an injury prevented him from taking part in the first race of the season and Willemsen replaced him with Bruno Kaelin for the first round. In race fourteen of the season, the team was disqaulified after winning the race due to Grütter losing a glove, after a protest by Kristers Sergis. [ [http://www.teamwillemsen.com/stichtingwillemsen/newsview.php?nieuwscategorie_id=1&nieuwsitem_id=216 Team Willemsen website - No points in second heat GP Germanie?!] (in Dutch) accessed: 5 August 2008] The team took out the 2008 world championship with a 97 point margin to second-placed Kristers Sergis.

eason by season

Source:Cite web
url = http://www.thejohndaveypages.org/CV/XXX/CV_XXX_P_Grutter_R.htm
title = The John Davey Pages - Reto Grütter
accessdate = 2008-04-15
publisher = John Davey
* "Passengers" in italics.

External links

* [http://www.teamwillemsen.com/ Team Willemsen website]

Sources

* [http://www.sidecarcross.com/ The World Championship on Sidecarcross.com]

References