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FIM Europe congratulates to Vito Ippolito

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  The FIM General Assembly gathered in Jerez (Spain) voted on the re-election of President Vito Ippolito with 62 votes against the 41 obtained from the other candidate Jorge Viegas. On the same occasion were also elected three members of the FIM Board of Directors, Jacques Bolle (FRA), Nasser Khalifa Al Attiyah (QAT) and Andrzej Witkowski (POL). At the end of the General Assembly, congratulating the newly elected President Vito Ippolito, FIM Europe President stated: "Congratulations on behalf of FIM Europe. Vito Ippolito has a long term experience in the sport in various positions and has served already since 2006 as FIM President. We are looking forward to an excellent cooperation with the European Federations and wish him all the very best. Congratulations also to the new members of the Board of Directors!"  In the photo, FIM Europe President Dr. Wolfgang Srb congratulates to Mr Vito Ippolito for his re-election as
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FIM Europe preparing for Congress in Malta

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  On Monday November 17th the first inspection was held in Malta for organizing the 2015 FIM Europe Congress, from 2nd to 5th July 2015. The Secretary General Alessandro Sambuco and the Treasurer Michal Sikora met the President of the ASMK Frans Deguara and the Secretary General Johann Pace by making a visit to the Grand Hotel Excelsior (you can see the promo video of the Hotel at the website https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JO3Svb5dh2M), which will host the General Assembly. It was also visited the Golden Tulip Vivaldi Hotel, where was planned the cheapest accommodation for those who will choose it. The essential features of the two tours that will be offered to the accompanying persons, were outlined, too: on Friday there will be a boat trip to Gozo with Lunch on the Island and Saturday morning will be visited La Valletta.Michal Sikora participated to the first inspection as organizer of the previous
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Meeting FIM Europe with ADAC

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  ADAC Headquarters in Munich between top representatives from ADAC (Allgemeiner Deutscher Automobil-Club e.V.) and FIM Europe in order to discuss various areas of cooperation. ADAC is the largest automobile club in Europe with more than 18.9  million members and carries out substantial sport activities in automobile racing as well as with motorcycles (Road Racing, Motocross, Supermoto, Enduro, Trial). The national motorcycle Federation is the DMSB. “I am very happy about the meeting. There are so many activities in Germany, clubs, organisers, teams and riders as well as thousands of volunteers. The sport will be the winner”, declared FIM Europe President Wolfgang Srb. “ADAC will support European motorcycle activities, especially for young riders. There is a growing demand for affordable as well as sustainable motorcycle sport”, stated ADAC Sport-President Hermann Tomczyk. In the top photo, from left, Dieter Porsch, Head of Motorcycle Division, Hermann Tomczyk, ADAC Sport President, Lars Soutschka,
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FIM Europe Stock 600cc Championship 2015 Provisional Calendar

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The dates of the 2015 provisional calendar of European Superstock 600 championship.   DATE COUNTRY CIRCUIT 12 April Spain MotorLand Aragón* 19 April The Netherlands TT Assen 10 May Italy Autodromo Internazionale Enzo e Dino Ferrari di Imola 07 June Portugal Autódromo Internacional do Algarve** 21 June Italy Misano World Circuit Marco Simoncelli 20 September Spain Circuito de Jerez 04 October France Circuit de Nevers Magny-Cours *STK600 double race ** STC = Subject to contract conditions      
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«The key-word is ‘cooperation’»

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Mr. Martin De Graaff, President of FIM Europe Sporting Council, makes the point of the FIM Europe Sporting Commissions Meeting in Rome. FIM Europe hosted this weekend the second group of Sporting Commissions. Three weeks ago five Sporting Commissions met in the Tiber Hotel in Fiumicino, near Rome. The meetings of this weekend were: Vintage, Road Racing, Motoball and Track Racing Commissions. On Sunday morning the Promoter of Hill Climb also talked with Road Racing and Vintage Commissions about the possibilities of combinations with Vintage. The organisers were also invited for this meeting. The reaction of the Commissions three weeks ago was very positive about this kind of meetings, important was the contact with other commissions, the members of Management Council and the Staff. Like the cooperation with motocross promoter Youthstream the contacts with Dorna, the promoter of the World Road Racing Championship are renewed. As from 2015 two classes
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FIM Europe Presented Stock 250 European Road Racing Championship

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The Roof Garden of Tiber Hotel in Fiumicino, near Rome, hosted the presentation to the media of the Stock 250 4 Strokes European Championship. It is a completely new challenge, which aims to increase the participation of young riders in a low cost road race class which will prepare to the next steps in road racing. The new championship consists in six double races and the calendar is the same as the Alpe Adria championship, with six events in Adria Raceway (Italy), Pannoniaring (Hungary), Rijeka (Croatia), Most (Czech Republic), Hungaroring (Hungary) and Slovakiaring (Slovakia). "We wanted to organize a credible, affordable and strong road race championship for the coming years for federations, teams and riders", Dr. Wolfgang Srb, FIM Europe President said. "From July we started talking with Dorna and thanks to a close cooperation next year we shall have a European Championship in Moto2 and in Superbike. We missed
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New course for FIM Europe Commissions Meetings

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The second session of meetings of the FIM Europe Sporting Commissions has been just completed at the Hotel Tiber in Fiumicino, near Rome.“With the meetings of the Road Racing, Track Racing, Vintage and Motoball Commissions we close this first year of experience with this new format for the meetings”, FIM Europe President, Dr. Wolfgang Srb said. “Meetings have been held no longer separately but autonomously in common sessions. The rationale for this change is the aim to foster horizontal communication among the various Commissions within the FIM Europe to develop in the members the sense of belonging to the group and improving the organizational climate”. On this occasion the FIM Directors Oriol Puig Bulto – Technical Commission and Rezso Bulcsu – Road Racing Commission, participated in the meetings with the spirit of cooperation currently underway between the FIM and the FIM Europe.“We are working to create new rules for vintage 
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New maximum age limit for European Stock 600 Championship

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FIM Europe communicates that from 2015 maximum age limit for participation to the European Stock 600 Championship will change from 22 to 24 years. The minimum age is confirmed in 15 years. The minimum age starts on the date of the rider's birthday. The maximum age finishes at the end of the calendar year in which the rider reaches the age of 24.  
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FIM Europe-FIM-FEMA: new cooperation to defend Motorcycling

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  On November 11th  FEMA, FIM and FIM Europe representatives met in Brussels: Morten Hansen, Dolf Willigers and Rolf Frieling from FEMA, Silvio Manicardi from FIM Europe, Jesper Christensen and John Chatterton-Ross from FIM.Since July the organisations have been working on the draft OECD-ITF report on the safety of powered two wheelers (OECD is the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development based in Paris, which also hosts the International Transport Forum). This group will now coordinate responses to the final report which is expected to be published shortly. Common ground was established on the issues connected to motorcycling and mobility, but also on  training, awareness of riders by other road users, infrastructure, intelligent transport systems and the need for more research.  All agreed that the OECD-ITF report will have a major impact on policy by governments and the EU institutions for many years to come. The meeting serves as a
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Meeting Dorna-FIM-FIM Europe for the 2015 Road Racing Championship

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The 8th November 2014 on the occasion of the last MotoGP race at the Circuit de la Comunitat Valenciana in Valencia (SPA) a meeting was held between representatives of Dorna, FIM and FIM Europe to define the details of the 2015 Road Racing European Championship formula. The Championship will see eleven races in eight events involving classes Moto2 and Superbike. The races, like the FIM CEV 2014, will take place in France, Portugal and Spain. The calendar is being finalized and will be presented in the coming weeks. At the end of the meeting this is the statement of Dr Wolfgang Srb: “I am very happy that an agreement has been reached for a credible and attractive European Road Racing Championship. The sport is the winner!” In the photo from the left: Oscar Gallardo – DORNA/FIM CEV Repsol Director, Ignacio Verneda – FIM CEO, Carmelo Ezpeleta DORNA CEO, Dr. Wolfgang
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