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On a hot sunny day the Semifinal of the European sidecar Championship was held at Roden, in The Netherlands, in the context of the final of the FIM Long track (Final) .12 teams from 5 Countries took part to the event in front of over 2000 spectators. Some very exciting heats were battled out by the riders in both the 8 qualifying heats as well as in B and A final. The Dutch team of Wilfred Detz and Wendy Arling was unbeaten all day long and rightfully took the chequered flag in the A final. The two British teams finished close, in second and third position. The most spectacular heat of the day was arguably the 7th, where British team Berwick-Hopkins and Danish team Frederiksen-Grandt gave life to an incredible battle for the top position. The Danish outfit finished fourth overall. The next meeting will be the Final held in

With the sun out and temperatures rising high the Drive Park race track in Thessaloniki, Greece was ready for the race day of the fourth round of the S1 Supermoto European Championship. The Greek organisation prepared the track at its best and with the spectators already early on the grandstands, Thessaloniki was ready for some racing action. At his return after the injury sustained in Poland, TM Factory Racing rider Thomas Chareyre was back at the top and took the victory in the S1 Class. In the S1 Lites class the victory went to Phoenix Racing rider Nicolas Cousin. Race1 The first race in Thessaloniki started with 22 riders on the grid. At the start it was Phoenix Racing rider Markus Class to take the holeshot into the first corner of the Drive Park race track. In second TM Factory Racing rider Thomas Chareyre followed by Degasoline rider Pavel Kejmar

In sunny and very hot weather conditions the fourth round of the 2018 Supermoto European Championship season started in Thessaloniki in the region of Central Macedonia of Greece. For Greece it is the second year in a row that the Championship is being organized. The race track of Drive Park is one of the best in the country and with its combination of fast and medium corners and fast straights it will give some close racing. Today the free practices and time practice were held in Thessaloniki. After his injury in Poznan, TM Factory Racing rider Thomas Chareyre is back in action and took the pole position in Greece. With a lot of riders close to each other, for sure the races of tomorrow will be full of action. Time practice With a lot of riders close to each other in the free practices the battle for the pole position

The Final 2 of Speedway Euro Championship was held at Güstrow, in Germany. Around 5000 spectators witnessed one of the best speedway meetings in recent times - close racing, with an incredible amount of overtakes, with positions changing corner after corner, race after race. British Robert Lambert was victorious in the final heat to take the evening’s top spot, closely followed in second place by Danish Leon Madsen. The battle for third spot that was won by Mikkel Michelsen ahead of Emil Sayfutdinov. The event was held without incidents and injuries. The next meeting of the series will be at Daugavpils, in Latvia, on August 18th. Full results on FIM Europe website: http://www.fim-europe.eu/events/594

In the weekend from Saturday 14th to Sunday 15th July, the follow­ing European races will be held: 14 July - Individual Speedway EuroChampionship Final at Gustrow/Germany 14-15 July - Supermoto S1, SM Junior and S3 at Thessaloniki/Greece 14-15 July - European Sidecar Championship at Roden/The Netherlands

The technical rules of the Supersport 300 European Cup have been updated: the weight and speed limits have been changed in accordance with the World Supersport 300 regulations. The new rules can be found on FIM Europe website at the following link: http://www.fim-europe.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/AACR_Technical_Bulletin_02-2018.pdf

Youthstream announces a modification to the recently released provisional 2019 MXGP FIM Motocross World Championship calendar. The venue of the MXGP of France scheduled for the 16th of June 2019 has been updated to TBA (to be announced). The provisional calendar remains otherwise unchanged and the current version can be viewed below with the update.

Following the cancellation of the final round of the Women's Motorcross Championship, the Chairman of FIM Europe Motocross & Snowcross Commission, Mr. Eddie Herd, is delighted to announce that the medal ceremony will now take place on the SkyBox podium on 16th September at the MXGP in Assen, with the kind permission of Youthstream. This event has the FIM WMX class together with MXGP and MX2 and it is planned to have the medal ceremony on the Sunday morning following the WMX winner's ceremony. The WEMX winners are as follows: Gold - Sara Andersen of Denmark (in the photo) Silver - Shana Van Der Vlist of the Netherlands Bronze - Mathea Selebo of Norway. For the 125 2 stroke class the winners are:- Gold - Lyn Valk of the Netherland Silver - Malou Jakoben of Denmark Bronze - Kirstine Valledsen of Denmark.  

Markus Reiterberger (Alpha Racing-Van Zon-BMW) rode to another spectacular win in the European Superstock 1000 Championship, increasing his championship lead to 14 points with just two rounds to go. The German was unstoppable from lights to flag at the Misano World Circuit Marco Simoncelli, taking his fourth win of the campaign ahead of Maximilian Scheib (Aprilia Racing Team) and Riccardo Russo (Motocorsa Racing). As the lights went out it was a stunning start for Reiterberger as he looked as comfortable as always on his BMW machine, never looking back once he got away from the line. But his competitors were on the hunt for the podium, as Scheib kept one eye on the championship standings looking for second position. Keeping the fight going until the end of the race, there were two stunning battles on the cards for the final podium spots, with Scheib just managing to hold off Russo

The European Individual Grass Track Championship Final was a very hard fought competition staged on an extremely hot evening at the Circuit Jacques Rossignol, at Tayac in the South of France. With each of the 20 riders competing in four qualifying heats, before earning their place in one of three Finals (C, B and A), racing was always going to be hard and fast on the 400 metre track. Unfortunately one of the pre meeting favourites – young Dutchman Romano Hummel – crashed in his first heat, and after receiving medical attention on the track, was then taken to hospital with a suspected broken leg. With the winner and second placed rider of the B Final being elevated into the main A Final, this race was always going to be one of the toughest of the evening. However Czech rider Martin Malek leapt from the tapes, chased by defending European