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Filip Salac, winner of Race1 The city of Grobnik hosted the third round of the European Superstock 250 Championship, with races both on Saturday and on Sunday. The Hungarian Mate Laczko was the fastest in qualifying practices and he gained the pole position. In the first race, held on Saturday, the winner was however Filip Salac, from Czech Republic, who finished in front of poleman Mate Laczko and of Czech Petr Svoboda, third. Italian Manuel Torrini was fourth, while Oliver Konig (CZE) and Roman ml Kucera (SVK) did not finish race one. Oliver Konig, winner of Race2 On Sunday the race was a real fight among the young riders of this new Continental series: the poleman Mate Laczko managed to win the race in front of Oliver Konig and of the winner of race1 Filip Salač. At the chequered flag, fourth position for Manuel Torrini (ITA) before Petr Svoboda (CZE). After the

TEUTSCHENTHAL (Germany) -  Temperatures were almost perfect here at the classic Talkessel circuit, where round five of the European Championship EMX250 took place. To the delight of the German crowd that flooded the awesome venue here in Teutschenthal, Rockstar Energy Suzuki Europe’s Brian Hsu stood on the podium for the first time in his career while Apico Husqvarna’s Steven Clarke, the defending EMX250 champion, also hit a career milestone with his first ever overall victory.A few spanners were thrown in the works today with the drop of the gate. Turn one was chaotic with a bunch of riders going down in a heap, two of which are some of the hottest championship contenders Mafi Yamaha MX Team’s Alvin Ostlund and HONDA JTech’s Nick Kouwenberg. One quarter of a lap later, yesterday’s race winner Kemea Yamaha Yamalube’s Damon Graulus stalled his bike in an awkward place and was planted by another

  The start of Moto2 The FIM CEV Repsol riders have been cheered on this weekend by 24,000 fans who came to the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya. Under a scorching sun, Edgar Pons (SPA-Kalex) and Carmelo Morales (SPA-Yamaha) have added one more victory to their roster in the Moto2 European Championship and in the Superbike European Championship. Edgar Pons (SPA-Kalex) took a resounding victory in the Moto2 European Championship race and is proving unstoppable this season. Lapping a good way behind Pons, came a competitive chasing group with no clear leader. At the start of the race, Alan Techer (FRA-Tech 3) looked impressive, coming through from sixth place on the grid to trail the leading rider while fighting a continuous battle with Luca Marini (ITA-Kalex). They were joined by Steven Odeendal (RSA-Kalex), after he had gradually recovered from running wide at the very first corner, and Xavi Vierge (SPA-Tech 3), who

Today the sixth-round Pata European Junior Cup, powered by Honda, race at Misano, Italy ended in dramatic style this afternoon with race and series leader Javier Orellana getting knocked off his Honda CBR650F just three corners from clinching the 2015 title. The Spanish rider led into the final lap knowing that victory in today’s 10-lap race at the 4.226km Misano World Circuit would allow him to secure the 2015 European Junior Cup with two rounds to spare. However, he was pursued hard by Italy’s Emanuele Pusceddu, who was placed fourth in the points table.As the leading pair hit the fast turn 12, Pusceddu lunged for lead but, instead, collided with Orellana, sending both riders into the gravel trap, thankfully unhurt.The race was consequently won by Italian Guiseppe de Gruttola, who celebrated his 20th birthday today in some style, with Alfonso Coppola finishing in second place, just six thousandths of a

Above, Nicki Pedersen, Tomasz Jędrzejak and Paweł Przedpełski.  Yesterday evening the inaugural round of Speedway European Championships series on the most modern stadium MotoArena in Torun was held. Over 9000 spectators could see the amazing actions into a fence, the fight on elbows for every centimeter of the track.Nicki Pedersen won the first round. In the big final the Danish rider was faster than Pawel Przedpelski, who rode in Torun as wild card. Third place for Emil Sajfutdinov, who was invicible in first five heats. The Russian rider is the leader of general classification with 16 points. Results: 1. Nicki Pedersen (Denmark) - 15 (2,2,3,3,2,3)2. Paweł Przedpełski (Poland) - 12 (2,3,2,1,2,2)3. Emil Sajfutdinow (Russia) - 16 (3,3,3,3,3,1)4. Antonio Lindbaeck (Sweden) - 12 (3,1,3,2,3,0)5. Grigorij Łaguta (Russia) - 9 (0,3,3,2,1) + 3rd place in Race - Off6. Peter Kildemand (Denmark) - 10 (3,w,1,3,3) + 4th place in Race - Off7. Artiom

In EMX 250 the Belgian Damon Graulus  on Yamaha won the race before Steven Clarke on Husqvarna and Adam Sterry on KTM, both British.  Sterry arrived in Teutschenthal as leader of the championship classification and still maintains his position at the top of the standings, even if only with 5 point of advantage on today’s winner Graulus. In the Honda 150, Emil Weckman, current red plate holder, took his third win of the season in the Honda European 150 Championship at the MXGP of Germany today. The young Finn took the Holeshot and soon settled into the lead but was unable to relax as the top eight riders were separated by the smallest of margins for the first half of the race. Eric Schwella, one of the German wildcard riders for this round, rode a strong race in front of his home crowd. Although he was in fourteenth place at

Edgar Pons, poleman in Moto2 After yesterday's free practice, the real action of European Moto2 and Superbike Championships in Barcelona (Spain) has begun today at 9am. The weather gave little rest today with a pressing heat during almost the entire day. In Moto2 European Championship, the two riders of Yellow Pages HP 40 Junior Team were the main protagonists of the day. Since the first session no one has been able to overshadow Edgar Pons (SPA-Kalex), who has taken advantage of the cool morning to mark his best lap, stopping the clock at 1 minute, 46 seconds and 163 thousandths. Same strategy seems to have followed his teammate, Luca Marini (ITA-Kalex), who set the second fastest time, six tenths behind the poleman. So Marini repeteated the second grid position, after Algarve. Xavi Vierge (SPA-Tech 3) was third fastest of the day. Behind him, Steven Odendaal (RSA-AGR Team), Tetsuta Nagashima (JPN-Kalex)

PATA European Junior Cup champion elect Javier Orellana will start what could be a title win European Junior Cup race tomorrow from pole position after snatching the top spot in the closing stages of final qualifying from Italian riders Matteo Ciprietti  and Emanuele Pusceddu, who were 2nd and 3rd respectively, the trio making up the front row of the grid. Giuseppe de Gruttola (SK & Itaba Moto) will head row number 2 where he will be joined by Guillaume Raymond and Mika Perez.British Sam Wilford was looking more than capable of snatching a place on row 2 until he crashed on his final lap. He will head row 3, starting 7th on the grid.The youngest rider in the field Troy Bezuidenhout also crashed early in the session after elevating himself into the top 12, he will start from 15th after being unable to make it back onto the track despite

  Federico Caricasulo (Pata Honda Junior Team) could hardly contain his delight at taking victory in today’s 13 lap FIM Europe Superstock 600cc race in front of his home fans at the Misano World Circuit Marco Simoncelli after timing his move for the lead almost perfectly on the penultimate lap. As ever the STK600 race was epic with in the early stages a group of ten swapping places at almost every turn. With 5 laps to go the leading group was now only 5 and headed by Michael Ruben Rinaldi (San Carlo Team Italia) who had to settle for 4th at the flag after being overtaken on the final two laps firstly by Caricasulo before Niki Tuuli (Kallio Racing) and Toprak Razgatliogliu (Kawasaki Puccetti Racing) who gave everything on the final lap to take the win, found their way past, taking 2nd and 3rd respectively after some incredible racing. For

From the left: Karol Lejman and Jan Konikiewicz from One Sport, Dr Wolfgang Srb, FIM Europe President, Armando Castagna, FIM CCP Director, and Piotr Szymański, FIM Europe Track Racing Commission Chairman Today, on the occasion of the first round of the Individual Speedway European Championship (SEC) in Torun (Poland), the marketing contract between FIM Europe and One Sport has been signed and extended for a period of ten more years. «I am very happy that we continue the partnership with One Sport», stated Dr Wolfgang Srb, FIM Europe President. «They have done an excellent job so far and I trust that they will work very hard to promote Speedway in the years to come. I also like to point out the presence of Armando Castagna, showing the new way of close cooperation of FIM Europe with FIM. FIM will work with One Sport on the promotion of the young riders (Individual Speedway