Robert Grogg

Robert Grogg, born in 1948, is a Swiss retired sidecarcross rider and a three-time Sidecarcross European Champion, winning the title in 1976, 1977 and 1978 with his passenger Andreas Hüsser. Before that he won the FIM-Cup, the forerunner of the European Championship, in 1972 and 1974, and he took the Swiss national sidecarcross championship nine times, eight of them in a row from 1971 to 1978 and a ninth in 1980. He began racing motorcycles at 17, rode solo until 1970 and then switched to sidecars. He raced in the opening 1971 FIM-Cup season, which grew into the Sidecarcross World Championship, and in the 1970s he dominated the Swiss and European scene on a bike powered by a British Norton engine, until the 1000 cc Yamaha engines took over around 1980.