FIM Europe News

  Aida Cojanu finished 65cc Race1 at the third place Greek Motocross Club OFMG hosted this weekend the first round of the European Motocross 65cc and 85cc South Eastern European Zone. Three thousand people gathered today in Giannitsa MX Park to enjoy the thrilling races the MX kid riders in EMX65 and EMX85 were about to perform. 26 riders from 6 different Countries were present despite the rain, which was coming and going since Saturday morning.             Croatian Nikola Hranic (Husqvarna) was the winner of the day in EMX85, having won both races in front of Greek rider Antonis Sagmalis (KTM) who managed to finish second also in the second race after a great battle with Bulgarian rider Nikolay Malinov (Kawasaki) who had to settle for third as well in both races.         Greek rider Andreas Andreou (Yamaha) did the battle for the second place but finished

Brad Freeman, winner of the overall in the first day - Photo @Robert PairanDuring the Day1 of the second round of Enduro European Championship, France showed its best side: with summer temperatures of nearly 20 degrees and sunny weather, the first day of race was even better for the spectators than for the riders, who had to fight hard. Except for the overall winner Brad Freeman from England, French riders were at high level and six of them finished the race in the top 10.Antoine Basset and Anthony Geslin conquered the second and third place in the overall, right in front of their fellow countryman Quentin Delhaye de Maulde and David Abgrall.The reigning champion Tom Sagar from England was 6th in the overall and had to fight back to first place in his E2-class after several crashes.Exept Basset, who won the E3-class with his KTM, more and more junior riders

From the left, Mr Michael Günther, DMSB Sport Director, Mr Alessandro Sambuco, FIM Europe Secretary General, and Mr Jochen Schäfer, DMSB Responsible for Motorcycling  On the 22nd March the FIM Europe General Secretariat hosted a meeting with representatives from DMSB. Mr Michael Günther, Sport Director, and Mr Jochen Schäfer, Responsible for Motorcycling, met FIM Europe Secretary General Mr Alessandro Sambuco, in a joint meeting with the Administration. In addition to discussing various administrative matters, the meeting represented the occasion to understand how the General Secretariat services are perceived by an important Federation such as DMSB.“These occasions are fundamental for me, in order to collect, understand and interpret the evaluation on the work of our Organization”, stated Alessandro Sambuco. “What emerges from these meetings will give us an opportunity to promote improvement activities, with the minimum target to maintain the value of the current standards and with the more challenging goal

Since the Six Days of in 1980 the city of Brioude is a well known venue all over the world for enduro.For the second round of the European championship, during the Easter weekend, the challenging race will be made up of three laps of the course, and each lap will be 80 kms long, with three tests. The opening ceremony with riders parade will take place on Thursday evening at 6:00 pm.Test 1 will be a typical cross-test with a long grass track in Civeyrat, only 7 kms East from Brioude.Test 2 is the extreme-test in Verneuges, about 23 kms South West from the paddock. Lots of rocks and a big jump will challenge the riders.Test 3 is the enduro-test in Brenat, about 12 kms South West from Brioude. The race is completely through the wood, with plenty of stones and roots everywhere.The spectators will have five most interesting view-points.For

Following the cancellation because of the unsuitable weather conditions of the 2 events that were scheduled in Estonia and Russia for the 2016 European Snowcross Championship, FIM Europe is delighted to confirm that this championship will now be combined with the World Championship event in Alta, Norway on Friday and Saturday 8/9 April. The Chairman of the FIM Europe Motocross and Snowcross Commission, Mr Eddie Herd, is extremely pleased to have this event saved and for the riders to visit this spectacular track in the far north of Norway and expresses his sincere thanks to Youthstream, the FIM/CMS, the NMF and the Alta club together with the FIM Europe Management Council for their cooperation and assistance, without whom this event could not happen. The Supplementary Regulations will appear on the FIM Europe website within the next few days.

The European Supermoto Champion in 2015, Marc Reiner SchmidtBPROM, the promoter of European Supermoto S” Championship, communicates that, due to technical/logistic issues, the round scheduled in Magione (Italy) on 12th June will be held on the same date at Kart Planet Circuit of Busca (Cuneo - Italy), venue which already hosted the race last year and in the past.

The Endurance races were born in Europe and particularly in France, in 1922 with the creation of the famous "Bol d'Or". These competitions, which at the beginning were national, were integrated into a European Championship in the early 70s with the participation of many official teams and support of Manufacturers. Given the success of this discipline, the FIM decided then to create a World Championship, which still exists today and is very popular with the teams, factories and riders, especially following the arrival of a new promoter.The creation of the Endurance European Cup can be considered as a homecoming, in Europe, for crews and riders who for any reasons cannot commit to the full World Championship, or for those who wish to "make their debut" in a major discipline, with a very promising future.Originally the Endurance races were intended to demonstrate the reliability but also the brilliance of motorcycles, at a

Contrarily to the cancellation announced on March 3rd, the Italian Motorcycling Federation communicates that the event of the European Bajas Championship scheduled on 24-26th June in Pordenone (Italy) will be regularly held, on the organizer’s request.

The Supplementary Regulations of the first round of EMX North East 65/85 Championship and of the EMX Women’s Cup have been issued and can be downloaded at this link.The races will be held in Cieszyn (Poland) on May 21-22th. As for the Women’s Cup, the event is open to women of a minimum age of 15 years old riding MX2 specification motorcycles (250cc 4-strokes or 125cc 2-strokes). The top four women in the FIM World Championship for 2015 and 2014 are excluded from entering but the event is open to any rider from any Continental Union, not just Europe.

The Bulgarian Motorcycling Federation (BMF) has been forced to change the date of the first round of the European Supermoto Championship SM Junior, S3 and Open: the race scheduled on 7-8 May in Pleven (Bulgaria) will be held on April 9-10, due to reconstruction works planned in the area which will host the race. Above, the updated European Supermoto Championship Calendar.