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LOMMEL (Belgium)  – Using the European Championship to dip your toes into racing the FIM Motocross World Championship just got voided. Not really, it still is the best way to test MXGP’s waters, but the word ‘dip’ isn’t at all accurate with the ninth round of the premier Amateur series, the EMX250, and the sixth and seventh rounds of European Championships EMX300 and EMX125 Presented by FMF Racing, taking place in Lommel, the gnarliest track in the world. It is more like diving in the deep end. At the conclusion of what was an epic weekend, champions have been crowned in all three classes. Sahkar KTM’s Jago Geerts won the EMX125 Championship Presented by FMF Racing after winning both races this weekend, while Bodo Schmidt Motorsports Thomas Kjer Olsen wrapped up the EMX250 title in Race 1 with five races left to go in the series, although the EMX250 round

 Photos @Ray The city of Budel, in the Netherlands, is hosting the European Motoball Championship. Yesterday, the Day 6 of the series was held and five matches were played. Youth team Netherlands-Youth team Germany 1-6 Germany has much more selection abilities, so they managed to tire out the Dutch team, which was not bad, either.Netherlands-Russia 2-7 Russia were preparing for semi-finals, but they did commit also in this match and won it with the result of 2-7. The Netherlands played their last game in this championship and were greatly cheered by their fans.Lithuania- Ukraine 10–2 Lithuania was really strong in this last match and Ukraine did their best but managed to score only twice. In the final standing Lithuania is 6th with 2 points and Ukraine is last with zero points. SEMI-FINALSRussia-France 4-1 Tough game and good performance from both teams, but the Russian defence was superb and they outclassed

The city of Budel, in the Netherlands, is hosting the European Motoball Championship. Yesterday, the Day 6 of the series was held and five matches were played. Youth team Netherlands-Youth team Germany 1-6 Germany has much more selection abilities, so they managed to tire out the Dutch team, which was not bad, either. Netherlands-Russia 2-7 Russia were preparing for semi-finals, but they did commit also in this match and won it with the result of 2-7. The Netherlands played their last game in this championship and were greatly cheered by their fans. Lithuania- Ukraine 10–2 Lithuania was really strong in this last match and Ukraine did their best but managed to score only twice. In the final standing Lithuania is 6th with 2 points and Ukraine is last with zero points. SEMI-FINALS Russia-France 4-1 Tough game and good performance from both teams, but the Russian defence was superb and they

Photo: Race Magazine The city of Örebro, Sweden, hosted the fourth and last round of the European Extreme Enduro, which scored around 5.000 spectators in two days. After yesterday’s prolog Joakim Ljunggren and Wade Young started first. They had a good battle for 2 laps and a half, then Young passed Ljunggren and Jarvis started upcoming from behind.When Jarvis passed Young he just continued his own race and had a good lead before Young, who had some mechanical problems.Eddie Karlsson, who normally races in the X-Trial World Championship, took part to the race to see what extreme enduro is. Graham Jarvis (in the photo) won in front of Wade Young and Lars Enöckl.After four rounds, the 2016 European Extreme Enduro Cup was won by Xavier Leon Sole in front of Alfredo Gomes Cantero and Anders Becker Johansen.    

 Emil Weckman, 2015 Champion and current red plate holder, took the race one victory in the deep sand of Lommel today in dominant style. Weckman initially powered into the lead aboard his CRF150R, taking the holeshot, before Estonia’s Henry Vesilind got the better of the Finn in the early stages of the race. However, it didn’t take the defending champion long to find his rhythm and regain the lead.The pair then opened a sizeable gap to the rest of the field, before a mistake by Vesilind resulted in a crash and dropped him to sixth. Unfortunately, the Estonian was unable to make any places up but maintained his sixth place at the chequered flag.A stunning ride from both Andrea Adamo (ITA) and Luis Outeiro (POR) saw the pair battling hard throughout the second half of the moto for second place. Although Outeiro looked to be holding off the Italian, Adamo

Photos @Robert Pairan The third round of European Enduro Championship (EEC) is being held at Ogre, in Latvia. At the end of the first day there was a new overall winner: KTM rider Jaromir Romancik from Czech Republic (in photo 1) was the fastest rider of all, finishing 23 seconds in front of his rivals. Second position of the day for Italian Nicolas Pellegrinelli (in photo 2), but with this result he catches the leading position of the championship. The former leader, Brad Freeman, could not start after surgery to his shoulder.Third position of the day for Junior Andreas Linusson from Sweden, who felt at his ease in the sand. In fact, both crosstest and the first enduro-test were sandy, partly very deeply sandy, but the second enduro-test was with hard ground in a former quarry, full of stones. And at the end, because of some rain, this test revealed

The city of Örebro, Sweden, hosted the fourth and last round of the European Extreme Enduro, which scored around 5.000 spectators in two days. After yesterday’s prolog Joakim Ljunggren and Wade Young started first. They had a good battle for 2 laps and a half, then Young passed Ljunggren and Jarvis started upcoming from behind. When Jarvis passed Young he just continued his own race and had a good lead before Young, who had some mechanical problems. Eddie Karlsson, who normally races in the X-Trial World Championship, took part to the race to see what extreme enduro is. Graham Jarvis (in the photo) won in front of Wade Young and Lars Enöckl. After four rounds, the 2016 European Extreme Enduro Cup was won by Xavier Leon Sole in front of Alfredo Gomes Cantero and Anders Becker Johansen.

Emil Weckman, 2015 Champion and current red plate holder, took the race one victory in the deep sand of Lommel today in dominant style. Weckman initially powered into the lead aboard his CRF150R, taking the holeshot, before Estonia’s Henry Vesilind got the better of the Finn in the early stages of the race. However, it didn’t take the defending champion long to find his rhythm and regain the lead. The pair then opened a sizeable gap to the rest of the field, before a mistake by Vesilind resulted in a crash and dropped him to sixth. Unfortunately, the Estonian was unable to make any places up but maintained his sixth place at the chequered flag. A stunning ride from both Andrea Adamo (ITA) and Luis Outeiro (POR) saw the pair battling hard throughout the second half of the moto for second place. Although Outeiro looked to be holding off the

The third round of European Enduro Championship (EEC) is being held at Ogre, in Latvia. At the end of the first day there was a new overall winner: KTM rider Jaromir Romancik from Czech Republic (in photo 1) was the fastest rider of all, finishing 23 seconds in front of his rivals. Second position of the day for Italian Nicolas Pellegrinelli (in photo 2), but with this result he catches the leading position of the championship. The former leader, Brad Freeman, could not start after surgery to his shoulder. Third position of the day for Junior Andreas Linusson from Sweden, who felt at his ease in the sand. In fact, both crosstest and the first enduro-test were sandy, partly very deeply sandy, but the second enduro-test was with hard ground in a former quarry, full of stones. And at the end, because of some rain, this test revealed very slippery.

Photos @Ray The city of Budel, in the Netherlands, is hosting the European Motoball Championship. Yesterday, the Day 5 of the series was held and five matches were played. Ukraine-Belarus 3-7 
Ukraine managed to do a good game, but did not get any positive results. Belarus took their points and won the game by 3-7. Ukraine still has no points in this championship and stands in the last place, behind Lithuania by goal difference.France-Lithuania 3-1 
Both teams started the game slowly and carefully, because both had two matches to face in the same day. France scored in the second quarter, but Lithuania quickly managed to score their first goal in this championship and at half-time the result was 1-1. But in the second half of the game France scored two goals and Lithuania was not able to reply. Russia-Belarus 7-2 
Belarus has showed great form in all the championship and