Motocross

EMX 250 European Championship and EMX 2T European Championship: Van De Moosdijk and Kellett rally in Russia for first overall wins Serving as the 4th round of both the EMX250 and EMX2T presented by FMF Racing Championship seasons Orlyonok hosted the future stars of the FIM Motocross World Championship. Warm weather and sunshine tested the physical conditioning of the riders while the challenging surface of the circuit tested their skill. Saturday’s EMX250 Race 1 began with KTM Junior Racing’s Rene Hofer in the lead with the number 98 MJC Yamaha of Thibault Benistant just behind him. SDMCORSE-Yamaha’s Rick Elzinga was third but the F&H Racing Kawasaki of Roan van de Moosdijk came from fourth to pass both Elzinga and Benistant by lap 2. Meanwhile Team Maddii Racing Husqvarna’s Alberto Forato crashed trying to come through the pack. Honda Redmoto Assomotor’s Stephen Rubini was one rider to successfully move forward from 7th to 3rd while Van de Moosdijk took the lead from Hofer. Van de

EMX 65 / EMX 85 European Championship North East zone: third round in Latvia The beautiful city of Gulbene, Latvia, hosted the third round of the 2019 European MX Championship for EMX 65 and EMX 85 North East zone. About thousand spectators gathered around the track to welcome and enjoy their favorite riders and felt the spirit of the race. The weather, despite all forecast, turned out to be perfect during the whole weekend. Even though the organiser did a massive job to maintain the good quality of the track. In EMX 65 class the qualification leader was Janis Martins Reisulis from Latvia. Second place for Semen Rybakov from Russia and third place for Marius Adomaitis from Lithuania. In EMX 85 qualifying race first position for another Latvian, Reisulis Karlis Alberts. Second place for Mikk Martin Lohmus from Estonia and third for Roberts Lusis from Latvija. EMX 85 class race

EMX 65 / EMX 85 European Championship North West zone and EMX Women's European Championship: fourth round in Germany The fourth round of the EMX 65 / EMX 85 European Championship North West zone and EMX Women's European Championship took place in Reutlingen, Germany.
With good weather conditions, the training started on time. In 65cc class qualifying Vitezslav Marek (Czech Republic) dominated on the little lady Lotte van Drunen from the Netherlands and the young English Ashton Boughen. In 85cc class best time for Cas Valk. In the women's class, after a great fight, Sara Anderson prevailed on the German Stephanie Laier. Third position for the Dutch Lynn Valk. Race 1 85cc class saw Julius Mikula (Czech Republic) first, the English Charlie Heyman second and Mads Fredsoe (Denmark) third. Marek won the first race of 65cc class, while Boughen finished second in front of Maxime Lucas from Belgium. Sacha Coenen (Belgium)

EMX 250 European Championship and EMX 125 European Championship 2T: Rubini and Guyon fight to French EMX wins Saint Jean D'Angely, France, hosted the FIM Europe’s EMX250 and EMX125 presented by FMF Racing championships. As the third round in the 2019 EMX250 Championship, the round of France followed a month and half hiatus since the last stop at Trentino. Coming into this weekend all eyes were on Maddii Racing Husqvarna’s Alberto Forato as led the championship following his perfect races in both the UK and Italy. The first race of the two took place on Saturday after morning qualifying provided an entry list of the top 40 riders. As the gates dropped in race 1 it was Yann Crnjanski taking the holeshot ahead of Honda Redmoto Assomotor’s Stephen Rubini and Bud Racing Kawasaki’s Jimmy Clochet as Forato was buried in the pack. Before the first lap was finished both Rubini and Clochet had made it past their fellow Frenchman Crnjanski in

EMX 65 / EMX 85 European Championship South West zone: 3rd round in Portugal Fernao Joanes in Guarda, Portugal, hosted the 3rd round of the EMX 65 / EMX 85 European Championship South West zone on a technical hardpack track. In EMX85 the qualifying race was won by the French Prugnieres Quentin in front of the Spanish Canet Edgard and Puig Victor. Thrilling the EMX65: the Spanish Joel Canadas and the French Cayenne Danion changed places 15 times from start to finish, followed by another Spanish rider, Jose Zambudio. EMX 85 race 1 was ruled by qualifying winner Prugnieres, while second position for Maxime Grau. Situation unchanged at the end of the race. The Italian Valerio Lata took the 3th position in the last corners and arrived in front of the Spanish Victor Puig. Double victory for Prugnieres, who won also the second heat leading form the start to the

EMX 2T presented by FMF Racing: Mike Kras picks up Portuguese win Picking up his second overall win in a row this weekend in Agueda, Portugal, is Team Ecomaxx Fuels’ Mike Kras. As the third round of the European 2t Championship, Portugal provided perfect conditions. Starting with Saturday’s Race1 it was Kras in the lead just edging out his teammate Youri Van t Ende. This points leader coming into the weekend was Verde Substance KTM’s Brad Anderson who, after getting a decent start in 5ththrough the first corners, crashed during the opening lap. The crash from Anderson put him way back in the pack registering 17th after the first official lap. Todd Kellett took 3rdaway from Andrea Vendruscolo early and then got into second past Van t Ende the next lap around. Emanuele Alberio was having a strong ride in 4thposition before losing spots to Vaclav Kovar, A1M Husqvarna’s Andero Lusbo, and Brad Todd as the race went on. At the finish on Saturday

EMX 65 / EMX 85 European Championship North West zone and EMX Women's European Championship: third round in Denmark In the weekend of 11th-12th May the 3rd round of North West European Motocross 65 and 85 cc Championship was held in Slagelse (Denmark) together with the 3rd round of Womens European Motocross Championship. A sunny weather welcomed about 300 spectators to watch the event live in the track. After the technical control there were 30 riders in the EMX65 class, 43 riders in the EMX85 class and 33 riders in the EMX Women class. EMX65 first heat was won by Czech rider Vitezlav Marek, 15 seconds before Lotte van Drunen (The Netherlands) and 21 seconds before Swedish rider Anton Isakson. The second heat was again won by Vitezslav Marek, this time 1 second before Lotte van Drunen and 11 seconds before Anton Isaksson. The overall standing for this event show

EMX 125 European Championship 2T and EMX 2T European Championship: Kras and Guadagnini top two-stroke European racing in Lombardia The rippers of FIM Europe made two stroke music for the thousands of motocross fans present in Mantova this weekend. Through two days of racing the conditions can only be definable as polar opposite with the lone ambiguous adjective being challenging. The younger and smaller cc two stroke of EMX 125 Presented by FMF Racing also dealt with the same challenging conditions as even the MXGP and MX2 riders. In a class that is one of the most difficult to be consistent in even with perfect conditions Team Maddii Racing Husqvarna’s Mattia Guadagnini did the seemingly impossible with double race wins. Race 1 was led by WZ-Racing’s Simon Laegenfelder for the first 9 laps while Guadagnini calmly worked his way past RFME MX Junior Team’s Orio Oliver to get into second. Only a lap after losing second

EMX 65 / EMX 85 European Championship South West zone and EMX Women's European Championship: Cardineau, Russi and Van Der Vlist the winner The city of Vesoul, France, hosted on 04th-05th May a thrilling cross weekend. During the pre-qualifications it started raining and it became colder: in the afternoon started snowing and it was necessary to stop racing because of too much water on the track. On EMX 65 the French Cardineau Felix was first in front of the Spanish Perez Salvador and another French rider Pigois Basile. In EMX 85 two Italians on top: Lata Valerio in front of Russi Matteo. The women’s class was led by the experienced Stephanie Laier in front of the Danish Dam Line and Dutch Valk Lynn. On Sunday morning the track was very wet and muddy. For the 65 cc class it was a very tough to race. Overall winner was Cardineau, followed

EMX 65 / EMX 85 European Championship North East zone and EMX Open European Championship: round 1 in Ukraine City of Kovel, Ukraine, hosted the first round of the Motocross European Chamionship NW zone with good weather on Saturday, but rain and cold on Sunday. Race 1 EMX 65 class saw a nice battle between winner of this race Marius Adomaitis from Lithuania and second Ricards Alens Galcins from Latvia. Third position for the Estonian Gregor Kuusk. In Race 1 EMX 85 class ruled the Latvian young talent Edvards Bidzans. Second was another latvian rider Kirils Maslovs and third Aleh Makhnou from Belarusia. Martin Michek from Czech Republic won the EMX Open class in front of home rider Roman Morozov and another Czech Peter Michalec. Race 2 were more difficult due to the heavy rain. In EMX 65 class the Latvian Janis Martins Reisulis won in front of Semen Rybakov