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The European Champion in 2015 Gianluca Tournour @Candellone The 25th edition of the FIM Europe Trial championship is on the go. In the next weekend for the third consecutive year, in Pietramurata, Trentino region, North-East of Italy, the Riva del Garda club will have the honor to host the start of every series in these two days of competitions. As tradition on Saturday the scene is reserved to Youths and Women. Two loops with 12 sections each, all inside a close area, easily reachable by spectators. In order to give chances to compete to everybody, independently of their own riding skills, there are also two sub-classes, named “International”, for both Youth and Women, with sections at a lower level.Up to this moment already 175 riders have sent their entry-forms. This fact can only ratify how good was the choice of this venue as starting round. The main championship will continue in

As announced in FIM Europe press release of March 23rd, 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, this championship will now be combined with the World Championship event in Alta, Norway on Friday and Saturday 8/9 April. The Supplementary Regulations have been issued and can ben downloaded from FIM Europe website at the following link: http://www.fim-europe.com/images/pdf/2016/SR/MX_SNOWCROSS/SR_Snowcross_ALTA.pdf

The press conference for the MXGP Academy (@ Youthstream) After the qualifications on the first day of the MX GP in Valkenswaard (The Netherlands), Youthstream and FIM Europe organised a press conference for the MXGP Academy. The trainers of the Academy are busy all over the year with riders training in several European Countries. Besides this it is important to pay attention to the skills of the trainers.In January many KNMV trainers took part to a special course for trainers in Sport center Papendal, in The Netherlands.These trainers were invited in order to receive the certificates in Valkenswaard.Giuseppe Luongo from Youthstream is enthusiastic about the progress of the Academy trainers: "Young, good educated riders are the future and the base for the pyramid which works very good in motocross. Part of this is the training of trainers, they have influence in the development of our sport", stated Giuseppe Luongo.Martin de Graaff

The start of EMX250 @ YouthstreamThe first round of the European Championship EMX250 and European Championship EMX300 resented by FMF Racing took place this weekend on the treacherous circuit of Valkenswaard, The Netherlands. Stormy skies darkened the atmosphere ever so slightly as rain came and went, and wicked winds gusted, but the real storm that is the depth of racing in the European Championship was enough to put a smile on everyone’s faces as Rockstar Energy Husqvarna’s duo of Conrad Mewse and Yentel Martens reigned supreme here at the opening rounds.EMX250 - When the gates slammed into the sloppy sand of Valkenswaard Norway’s Even Heibye was the quickest to react and took the holeshot with the two EMX250 rookies, Conrad Mewse and Maxime Renaux, in tow.Mewse was looking right at home on the roughness of Valkenswaard as he hang right off the back of his Rockstar Energy Husqvarna, keeping the

Antoine Basset, winner of the overall in the second day - Photo @Robert Pairan In the second day of the Enduro European Championship in Brioude (France) the overall was won by French rider Antoine Basset on his KTM in front of the Brit Brad Freeman. Freeman was leading in the overall up to the last special test: “I hit a tree with my shoulder and crashed,” stated the junior rider, who however won the Junior-E1-class and keeps the overall lead in the championship. Contrarily to Day1, there were less Junior riders at the top of the overall: Freeman was the only one up to the sixth place, where we can find his classmate Nicolas Pellegrinelli.Third place in the overall for Czech Jaromir Romancik ahead of the reigning champion Tom Sagar and of Romain Dumontier, and this is also the podium of E2-class.Guest starter Jérémy Carpentier from France won the E1-class.

  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.