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ITP European Quadcross Championship in Kegums (Latvia) – Day 1

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Edgars Mengelis, from Latvia, leader of qualifying - Photo by Rien Willems The sixth and final ITP EMX QuadCross event of the season 2015 is being held by the well known organizer in Latvia, in Kegums, approximately 55 kms East of the Latvian Capital Riga. The weather was hot on Saturday and for Sunday some rain and temperatures up to  25°C are announced. The track was very well prepared and there have been 35 entries and 26 riders present, which is quite good considering that it is the last race of the seson. On Saturday's qualification practice the pole position went to the European Champion of last year, Mike van Grinsven, in front of the new Champion, the Latvian Edgars Mengelis, who is 1.46 secs behind. Third position went to Jani Tanhuanpaa, FIN.
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FIM Europe and Università di Roma Foro Italico for a Master in Motorcycling Management

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On Thursday 6th August a meeting between the FIM Europe and the Università degli Studi di Roma “Foro Italico” was held in Rome. Topic of the meeting, which was attended by the FIM Europe President Dr Wolfgang Srb, the Rector of the University Prof Fabio Pigozzi and the FIM Europe Secretary General Alessandro Sambuco, was the presentation by the FIM Europe of a first draft for the organization of a Master in Motorcycling Management to be held in collaboration with the Fondazione Universitaria Foro Italico.There was a shared vision of the needs to which the Master will be addressed and of the content to offer, and which is proceeding with the definition of the organizational details.The recruitment, selection and development of sporting talents in motorcycling is one of the main goals of the European Motorcycling National Federations.The main actors in this process of creation of the next Champions are surely
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European Team Speedway U21 in Gislaved (Sweden) – Preview

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The photo of 2014 Final and the winning team, which was Poland. The Team Speedway U21 European Championship Semi Final is going to take place in Gislaved, Sweden on the 8th August. The four participating Countries are the host nation Sweden, Denmark (which took the place of withdrawn Russian team), Germany and Finland. They all take to the track with the ambition to finish as the winner of the meeting which means qualification to the final.On 29th July 2015 Russian Federation (MFR)  withdrew their team from Team Speedway U21 European Championship - Semi Final. The DMU (Denmark) decided to offer their second team – they have their first team in the Final. The points scored by DMU II will be counted towards the results of the race.However DMU II will not be classified in the final championship result and have no right to qualify to the Final.The final will take
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European Enduro Championship in Jämsä (Finland) – Preview

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Maurizio Micheluz - Photo by Robert Pairan After more than two months of Summer break, now the Enduro Championship is preparing for the North: Jämsä in Finland has been known as an international venue for off-road events for many years. Stages with many stones and roots but also with a lot of sand are waiting for the riders - racing through the different conditions is a particular challenge.In practice, the paddock is the only service point on the 52 kms long course. This will be repeated three times in the form of an 8, so that both times the teams can have the paddock supervised by their riders.The continuation of the duel between the reigning Overall champion Maurizio Micheluz and Tom Sagar will be interesting. The Italian was injured a month ago (the shoulder dislocated) and sand is not one of the favourite soil of Micheluz. Eero Remes, who is
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European Individual Speedway U21 Semi-Final 1 in Debrecen (Hungary)

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The circuit of Debrecen, in Hungary, hosted the Semi-Final 1 of the Individual Speedway Under 21 European Championship. Despite a very hot and sunny day, the Debrecen Speedway SE club worked hard to produce a very fast race track that gave the spectators an excellent racing day. As the meeting progressed, the track conditions improved, and it was difficult to forecast who would be the eventual winner. With nine qualifying places (+ one reserve) being available to progress into the European Final at Silkeborg (Denmark), the winner was Andzejs Lebedevs. The second place went to Maksym Drabik from the Poland, while third place went to Polish rider Bartosz Smektala. Everyone in the Track Racing world will now be focusing on the European Final which is being staged at  29.08.2015, in what will be an extremely hard race meeting prior to the crowning of the Individual Speedway U 21 European Champion
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European Quadcross Championship in Kivioli (Estonia)

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In the weekend of 1st and 2nd of August the fifth round ot the European Quad Motocross Championship was held in Kiviõli (Estonia) and organised by SA Kiviõli Seiklusturismi Keskus. Saturday the weather forecast promised sunny and dry day, but instead of it was heavy rain. 1st and 2nd Free Practice were held in scheduled time, and the Qualifying Practice went on with an half hour delay. The fastest were Edgars Mengels (LAT), Mike van Grinsven (NED) and Priit Järvloo (EST). Sunday morning, in sunny weather, also the Warm Up confirmed that Edgars Mengels and Mike van Grindsven still were the fastest riders. In the first race Mike van Grinsven dominated from the start, and was followed by Edgars Mengels. When Grinsven got technical problems, Mengels took the lead on the 10th lap. He controlled the last 8 laps up to the victory with a gap of 32 seconds on
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EMX 125, 250 and 300 Championships in Lommel (Belgium)

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  LOMMEL (Belgium), August 2015 - When the going gets tough, the tough gets going! And that was the theme of the weekend for the European Championships EMX250, EMX125 and EMX300. Proving to be the strongest sand rider in the EMX250 class this year HF Kawasaki’s Lars Van Berkel went 2 - 1 to stand top of the box here at the eighth round of the championship. Meanwhile Cyril Genot took claim of the seventh EMX125 round while GL12 Yamaha Racing’s Brad Anderson took his fourth consecutive race win and the overall once again in the EMX300.EMX250Conditions for race one were already fierce and challenging which ended up working in favor of Bodo Schmidt Motorsport’s Thomas Kjer Olsen in the opening moto as he blitzed past the early season red plate holder Wilvo Forkrent KTM’s Adam Sterry and sand specialist HF Racing’s Lars Van Berkel for his first race win
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EMX 150 Championship in Lommel (Belgium)

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The circuit of Lommel, in Belgium, hosted this weekend a new round of EMX 150. Jack Bintcliffe put in an impressive performance that saw the young Brit dominate the first race in the deep sand of Lommel, moving him closer to the championship lead.At the gate drop Bintcliffe got a great start that saw him take the holeshot and begin to pull away from the rest of the riders. Throughout the duration of the race he was able to build and maintain a gap that, at the end of race, was over twenty seconds to the second placed rider Emil Weckman, who currently leads the championship.Weckman struggled to begin with and lost places at the start but was able to find his pace and move back up to fourth early on. The young Finn was then the centre of an intense battle with Alexis Collignon, Tim Edberg and Viking Lindstrom
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European Mini Road Racing in Pomposa (Italy) - Day 3

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European Mini Road Racing Championship, promoted by FIM Europe and for this year organized in two calendar events, have the best Italian return. During this weekend at Pomposa Circuit, the opening round organized by FMI, young Italian motorcycling talents monopolized the Minimoto scene and won all scheduled races. Alex Venturini (Junior A), Emiliano Ercolani (Junior B) and Michael Carbonera (Senior Open 50) shone at Race 3, while Czech rider Ondrej Vostatek shone in NSF100. European Minimoto Nine races, nine victories and six podiums for Italian riders in Junior A, Junior B and Senior Open 50 classes. The best Italian talents monopolized the scene in every race at Pomposa Circuit, confirmeing with remarkable results the potential of a briliant future. To celebrate a memorable weekend for FMI, Italian talents won everything during this triumphal Sunday "Race Day". Starting from "Junior A" class the very young rider Alex Venturini (8 years old)
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European Hillclimb Cup in Kivioli (Estonia)

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In the photo above, Urmas Põldma, winner of the Unlimited class. Saturday evening the European Hillclimb Cup was held in Kivioli (Estonia). “This was the  first time that a Hillclimb was on the FIM-Europe calendar as an official Cup-race”, stated Martin de Graaff, FIM Europe first Vice-President. Ivar Gynnild (member of the FIM-Europe MX Commission) said to be happy with the status of this event and the 21 participants. He took the initiative for this event, and in his opinion next year the second event somewhere in Europe should be also on the official calendar. In EHC there are two classes: Modified (engine size from 0 to 700 ccm) and Unlimited (engine size from 700 to 2000 ccm). All riders make 4 runs and the winner is the rider with the shortest time up to the finish line (if they reach it). Below, from the left, Mr Martin de Graaff with
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