FIM Europe News

This weekend at the Nürburgring one of three weekends scheduled for the current semester was held by the MBA Motorsport-Management organized by the Kaiserslautern/Zweibrücken University (Germany). The Master's objective is to provide students with detailed knowledge of marketing, financing, sponsorship, leadership in motorsport and contract law. The lesson on Saturday morning saw the lecture of FIM Europe Secretary General Alessandro Sambuco on “Motorcycling in the International Sports Organization”. The lesson, which continues the collaboration started by FIM Europe with the two Universities of Kaiserslautern and Roma “Foro Italico” has offered the opportunity to the Master's students to make a focus on Motorcycling, given the almost total specialization in Car Racing. Family picture for Nürburgring CEO, Teachers and Students of the MBA Motorsport-Management From the description of the international sports organization and the institutions of motorcycling, the students passed the examination of the Organization Chart of FIM Europe and the processes

In the weekend from Friday 25th to Sunday 27th May, the follow­ing European races will be held: 25-27 May - Superstock 1000 and 600 European Championship at Donington/Great Britain 25-28 May - Supertwin Bike, Top fuel bike, Pro Stock bike, SSB European Championship at Santa Pod/Great Britain 25-27 May - Open Endurance Championship at Magny Cours/France 26-27 May - Road Race Hill Climb European Championship at Spoleto/Italy 25-27 May - European Supersport Cup at Poznan/Poland 25-27 May - European Cross Country Cup at Skykov/Slovakia 24-25 May - EMX Quad Championship at Cieszyn/Poland 25-26 May - European Trial Women and Youth at Krzeszowice/Poland 26-27 May - EMX65 and EMX 85 Championship SW Zone at Fernao Joanes/Portugal 22-27 May - All Terrain Rally Cup at Archaia Olympia Peloponisos/Greece

After the first round held in Castelloli over 1 month ago, the FIM Europe Youth and Women Trial Championship is back in the upcoming week-end. The 2nd and 3rd round are scheduled in Miekinia, 4 km from Krzerzowice, Poland. It is a quite famous venue, become almost a fixed appointment held every 2 years. Thanks to a small area completely closed to traffic, the local club can fully satisfy the main purposes of this event - reserved to women and the very young boys. It means that even those who have not yet the right age to get a regular riding license in their country, are allowed to compete with trial motorcycles. Not only, but Krzerzowice offers a huge benefit also to public, because they can watch the whole competition, simply walking from one section to another, all in not more than 10 km squared. There will be two different

The Day2 of the second round of Enduro European Championship was held today at Bacau, in Romania. Despite the rain at night, the track was probably even better than the day before. In addition, there was not so much dust, which had partly led to visibility problems on the first day and the ground was partially more handy. The leader of the overall championship, Italian Alessandro Battig, took his revenge. Yesterday he had lost a lot of time in the difficult uphill, where he had to push and fight, but things went smoothly for the Kawasaki rider today. Already in the first special-test of the day he was able to set the fastest time. In the new modified enduro test, in which the increasingly difficult uphill was cut out, he managed to gain the overall victory in the end of the day. However, young Swede Erik Appelqvist finished dangerously close to

The first round of Supermono European Cup was held at Brno, in Czech Republic. Thankfully after the promoter of the series quit last year ESA took the organisation of the series for 2018. It was their first ever event beside a club event at Brno Circuit. The organiser made its best job, with 18 entries and 16 riders on the grid. Hopefully the number of the riders will increase because the category is very exciting. Here were some present very special "home-made" bikes together with the Krämer Motorcycles based on KTM engine or the factory KTM bikes. The pole position was taken by Mr. Thomas Mair from Austria during the Qualifying Practice on Saturday. In race1 held on Saturday the winner was Jerry Van den Bunt (KMNV) ahead of Josef Frauenschuh (AMF) and of Jürgen Pirstner (AMF). On Sunday 2 more races were held. In the first one Jerry Van

In the first day of the second round of the European Enduro Championship in Bacau, Romania, the French rider Hugo Blanjoue won on his KTM: being 23 years old, he races in the Junior class where he leads the standings. Second place in the overall for Erik Appelqvist from Sweden (photo2) ahead of Czech Krystof Kouble: they all from the Junior class of the E2/E3. After his overall victory at the first round in his home country, Italian Alessandro Battig decided to compete in the other rounds of the European Championship too. Battig won his class, but in the overall classification the Kawasaki rider snatched the sixth place, which however consents him to maintain his lead in the championship. Two more class victories went to his Italian compatriots: in the two-stroke class up to 250 cc the winner was Maurizio Micheluz on Husqvarna and Tommaso Montanari on KTM was the

The city of Rivne, in Ukraine, hosted the first Semi-Final of U21 European Individual Championship. Over 6000 spectators were present during the meeting. The winner was Igor Kopec-Sobczynski from Poland ahead of Jan Kvech from Czech Republic and Wiktor Lampart from Poland. Next qualifiers were Patrik Wojdylo from Poland in 4th position and Oleg Michajlovs from Latvia. As a reserve, Nick Skorja from Slovenia. Full results on FIM Europe website: http://www.fim-europe.eu/events/541  

In the weekend from Saturday 19th to Sunday 20th May, the follow­ing European races will be held: 19-20 May - EMX 125 European Championship 2 Stroke at Teutschenthal/Germany 19-20 May - EMX65 and EMX 85 Championships SW at Brou/France 19-20 May - EMX65 and EMX 85 Championships NW at Vantaa/Finland 19 May - European U21 Individual Speedway Championship at Rivne/Ukraine 19-20 May - Enduro European Championship at Bacau/Romania 19-20 May - European Supermono Cup at Brno/Czech Republic

The 2018 MXGP of Latvia is well underway from Kegums and joining in the action of the World Championship was the two FIM Europe classes of EMX250 and EMX125 presented by FMF Racing. While the MXGP and MX2 classes are running their points paying races this afternoon the EMX riders started their championship racing Saturday and finished it up early today. Topping the overall standings was Honda Redmoto Assomotors Mathys Boisrame and KTM Junior Racings Rene Hofer! EMX 250 A reversed track layout provided exciting racing both Saturday and Sunday in both classes but in EMX250 Race 1 on Saturday Estonia’s Karel Kutsar took the lead early and held it for the first 12 laps before Honda Redmoto Assomotors Mathys Boisrame took the premier position away (photo 2). Boisrame who started in 3rd also passed KTM Silver Action’s Gianluca Facchetti for second on lap 3 before overtaking Kutsar. BUD Racing

The European Cross Country Cup was held at Lathi (Finland) in front of around 1000 spectators in nice, sunny weather. The track was around 15 kms long and very well prepared, no big holes, stones and other difficult, dangerous zones. After 9 laps and 3 hours of hard race there were no dramatic situations or accidents (7 laps for Women’s class). Created with Nokia Smart Cam The winners were Joakim Ljunggren from Sweden in the Senior Class, Antti Ahtila from Finland in the Junior Class, Marko Leponiemi from Finland in the Veteran Class and Marita Nyqvist from Finland in the Women’s Class. Full results on FIM Europe website: http://www.fim-europe.eu/events/535