Kristers Serģis

Kristers Serģis entered the sidecarcross world championship in 1992, with Artis Rasmanis as his passenger. After two seasons with limited success and starts, he switched to Normunds Bērziņš as his partner for 1994 and 1995 but continued to have only a small impact on the race circuit. In 1996, he returned with Artis Rasmanis and in the fourth race of the season they achieved their first race win, on 21 April in Betekom, Belgium.

The season after, their fortunes improved greatly and the duo won their first of five world championships this year. In 1998, they repeated their success and in 1999 they missed out by only one point to Daniël Willemsen / Marcel Willemsen on their third triumph. Also, in 1998, they won the German sidecarcross championship.[2] However, Serģis / Rasmanis continued their successful partnership with three more titles in 2000, 2001 and 2002. With their fifth title they became record holders in world cup wins in this sport. Previously, two drivers had archived four crowns, but none of them had five. In the 2002 season, they archived an amazing 13 wins in a row and 24 all up. After this, Rasmanis left the team and Sven Verbrugge from Belgium became Serģis new partner. After a second place in 2003, the team fell to seventh in 2004 due to an injury for Serģis, which put him out of action for three month, and split up after this season, Verbrugge joining Daniël Willemsen instead. In turn, Kaspars Stupelis came from Willemsen across to Serģis and the two finished runner-up in the 2005 season. In 2006 they raced in only two events and Sergis failed to score a GP victory for the first time since 1995, finishing 19th overall. The Serģis / Stupelis partnership returned in 2007 and with good results and one GP win they archived third place in the overall standing that season. However, Daniël Willemsen overtook them as record holders, having won six titles now. Despite this, the two Latvians Serģis / Rasmanis remain the most successful outfit in the history of sidecarcross world championship since Willemsen frequently exchanged partners in his six titles.[3]

Season by season

Season	Passenger	Equipment	Position	Points	Races	Wins	Second	Third
1992	Artis Rasmanis	Kawasaki-EML	46	1	3	—	—	—
1993	Artis Rasmanis	KTM-EML	33	25	9	—	—	—
1994	Normunds Bērziņš	KTM-EML	22	31	10	—	—	—
1995	Normunds Bērziņš	KTM-EML	18	4	20	—	—	—
	Artis Rasmanis			11	4	—	—	—
1996	Artis Rasmanis	KTM-EML	6	132	16	1	1	—
	Normunds Bērziņš			15	2	—	—	1
1997	Artis Rasmanis	KTM-EML	1	277	20	5	4	2
1998	Artis Rasmanis	Zabel-BSU	1	299	18	7	5	2
1999	Artis Rasmanis	Zabel-BSU	2	385	24	8	10	3
2000	Ramon van Mill	MTH-BSU	1	54	4	—	1	1
	Artis Rasmanis			298	22	7	6	2
2001	Artis Rasmanis	MTH-BSU	1	534	26	16	4	3
	Christian Verhagen			16	2	—	—	—
2002	Artis Rasmanis	MTH-BSU	1	662	28	24	1	2
2003	Sven Verbrugge	MTH-BSU	2	501	26	12	7	1
2004	Sven Verbrugge	MTH-BSU	7	246	12	6	1	2
2005	Kaspars Stupelis	MTH-BSU	2	440	22	7	12	—
2006	Kaspars Stupelis	KTM-Mefo	19	64	4	—	2	1
2007	Kaspars Stupelis	KTM-Mefo	3	242	16	1	8	1
2008	Kaspars Stupelis	KTM-AYR	2	434	24	4	12	2
	Overall 1992 - 2008			4687	312	98	74	23

Source:"The John Davey Pages - Kristers Serģis". John Davey. Retrieved 2008-04-04.

• Passengers in italics.

• Kristers Serģis team racing homepage (in Latvian)
• The World Championship on Sidecarcross.com