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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

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 

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.  

  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

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

 On November 1st, the FIM Europe Management Council and some of the Presidents of the European  Federations have been invited by the Federation of Qatar to attend the final event of the World Superbike Championship, which is being held at the Losail International Circuit. The spirit of friendship and cooperation that binds the FIM Europe and the FIM Asia is also achieved through these initiatives, which provide opportunities to share experiences and examine common problems. The President of the QMMF, Mr. Nasser Khalifa Al Attiya, has personally welcomed the European guests together with representatives of the FIM on the occasion of an official  lunch held at the Hilton Hotel in Doha. “It was a great experience for us to visit Qatar and the unique Losail circuit. President Nasser is doing an excellent job in promoting the sport”, stated Dr. Wolfgang Srb, FIM Europe President.     In the photo, the

The new issue of FIM Europe MAG is online and can be downloaded here. Among the articles, the news on the activity of FIM Europe after the election of Dr. Wolfgang Srb as FIM Europe President, from the FIM Europe Congress in Cracow to the 8th Road Safety Conference, from the meetings for the future of sport to the new projects for European Road Racing. In the Mag, also an interview to 8 times Motocross world champion Tony Cairoli, who won a title in European Supercross Championship, and a review of the 2014 season of European Motocross.

"FIM Europe is very careful to mobility and road safety aspects, considering that in Europe there are 37 millions of powered two wheels vehicles", comments Mr. Silvio Manicardi, FIM Europe second Deputy President (in the photo). "For this reason every year during the FIM Europe Congress we organise also a Road Safety Conference, and the results and documents of the yearly meeting since 2007 can be consulted in our website. Every time we find interesting studies and documents, we care about bringing them to the attention of the two-wheeled world". The "Mobility Test" proves that powered two-wheelers can contribute to improve mobility and reduce congestions all over Europe. Last summer, in fact, the test was made in European cities with different modes of transport, with the contribution of Italian Motorcycling Federation (FMI) for Italy: commuting to work takes more and more time due to congestions. More than 60% of the

An important meeting of various FIM Europe Sporting Commissions was held today in Rome: Motocross and Snowcross, Enduro and Rally, Supermoto, Trial and Drag Bike. The meetings developed in a friendly context, of cooperation and harmonization between FIM Europe and FIM. In fact, the respective chairman of FIM Commissions took part to the event, which has been the first of its kind in the history of FIM. During the meetings, the 2014 season was analysed and the preview of the 2015 was given, with the aim of harmonizing technical and sporting rules. «There will not be significant changes for next year», Chairman of Motocross and Snowcross Com­mission Eddie Herd said. «We work in cooperation with Youth­stream, which is also the World Champ­ionship promoter, and every­body is satisfied. Supercross will add two or three rounds». «We defined the 2015 calendars, in agreement with FIM», Marco Bolzonello, Chairman of Enduro & Rally

On October 16th, at the FIM offices in Mies was held the first meeting between the new FIM CEO Ignacio Verneda and FIME Secretary General Alessandro Sambuco. After the appointment of Verneda, on  October 8th, this first meeting was fixed immediately with the intent to make the cooperation between FIM and FIME at the operational level closer, frequent and long lasting. On the table, a variety of topics including - having to launch a great deal of initiatives planned for 2015 - the important question of the FIM contributions. It should be emphasized, in fact, that all the activities organized by the FIM Europe in the near future (Training Camp, Meetings, Workshops, Conferences and Seminars) will be open to Directors, Officials and Staff of the FIM as of the other CONUs. The concept of "FIM Family" finally takes concrete form. At the end of the meeting, Mr. Sambuco was very