Career
Reinhard Böhler, a native of the South Baden region of Germany, started racing motocross in 1963, originally in the solo class. He soon moved across to sidecarcross, where he initially had to race mostly in neighbouring Switzerland because the sport was not yet very well established in Germany at the time. He started for the motocross club in Schopfheim.
He retired from the sport in the mid-1980s, when he was diagnosed with stomach cancer.
Reinhard Böhler made his debut in the FIM Cup, a predecessor of the world championship, in 1971, in the first year of the competition. With his passenger Walter Frech he competed in only one race, the Swiss General Practice in Wohlen.
In the four years the FIM Cup was held, he only competed in one or two races of it per season. With the re-branding of the competition as FIM European Championship, he continued to make only occasional appearances.
Böhler concentrated on the German championship at the time, winning national titles in 1975, 1976 and 1977.
The year 1977 saw him also for the first time competing in every race of the European championship. The following two seasons proofed less successful, coming only sixth and ninth in the competition and losing the German title to Josef Brockhausen. The following season, he only took part in very few events and came 19th overall.
Reinhard Böhler returned to old form in 1983 and 1984, winning the German title for a sixth and seventh time and coming third in both world championship seasons.
Season by season 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. Böhler"s results in these three competitions were: Source:"REINHARD BOHLER General Practice RECORD".
John Davey. Retrieved 2009-2011-07.
All passengers are German nationals unless otherwise shown. World Championship European Championship Germany.
