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The second round of the Bajas European Championship was held on Friday and Saturday in the Papa (Hungary) track. Because of short track on Friday there is only one result per class. Winners of the different classes were: Bike Overall: Lubomir Vojikuvka (CZE, Beta) OTV Overall: Giammarco Fossà (ITA, Polaris) Quad 1: Arkadiusz Bernat (POL, Can Am) Quad 2: Kamil Wisniewski (POL, Yamaha) Quad Overall: Kamil Wisniewski (POL, Yamaha) Next and final round is scheduled from the 12th to the 17th of September in Idanha a Nova (Portugal).    Download here FIM Europe Press Release 135/2014  

The third round of the European Championship was held at Hockenheim Ring in Germany. The race was well attended by approximately 70 0000 spectators who saw a good race in excellent weather. Four classes were represented: Top Fuel Bike (4 Riders), Super Twin Bike (6 Riders) and Pro Stock Bike (9 Riders). The winners of each class were: Top Fuel Bike Ian King UK Super Twin Bike Samu Kemppainen FIN Pro Stock Bike Fredrik Fredlund FIN The Superstreet Bike European Cup was also held with 33 racers attending to the race with the winner was:Bradley O´Conner UK. Next and final round is scheduled from the 4th to the 7th of September in Santa Pod (UK).    Download here FIM Europe Press Release 134/2014      

The third round of European Quad Championship was held this weekend on the circuit “ZELTA ZIRGS” Kegums in Latvia. 29 Quad riders came to a perfect prepared circuit, and the free practice and qualifying training was carried out on a warm and cloudy day. The fastest rider in the qualifying practice was Edgars Mengelis Latvia, with Olli Koskela Finland on the second place and on the third place came Mike Van Grinsven the Netherlands. On a sunny Sunday with 28 degr. The first race toke place at 12.30 and the fastest rider was Edgars Mengelis Latvia number two Olli Koskela Finland, and on the third place came Mike Van Grinsven the Netherlands. In the second race Edgars Mengelis Latvia was again the fastest with Olli Koskela Finland on the second place, and number three Mike Van Grinsven the Netherlands Overall standing for the third round is Edgars Mengelis Latvia 50

The Mini Moto European Championship was held this weekend in the Czech Republic track of Cheb. Winners of the different classes are (unfortunately, there were not enough participants for two classes with Championship): Junior A: Mattia Falzone (Italy, Pasini) Senior Open 50: Michael Carbonera (Italy, DM) Mini GP 50: Davide Baldini (Italy, RMU) In the same weekend in Cheb was also held the Honda NSF European Cup with final standings seeing the victory of Finnish Peetu Paavilainen (Finland).    Download here FIM Europe Press Release 132/2014    

The 3rd Final of the 2014 FIM Europe Speedway European Championship (SEC) took part in Holsted (Denmark). Before the event a very heavy rain has made difficult the life of the organisers and riders. Due to the very hard and professional job of the organizing staff the track has got raceable one hour after the stop of the rain. The spectators have been very loyal and their premium was a nice and exciting race. There have been good fights and also surprises. At 80 % of the race program nearly half of the riders have been on the same points! The victory went to Russian Emil Sayfutdinov who has retorted for the Danish victory of last round in Russia. The runner up has been Danish Peter Kildemand and the current European Champion, Martin Vaculik of Slovakia has finished on the third place. The last round of the SEC will be

  In the picture from left: Mr. Alessandro Sambuco, FIM Europe Secretary General; Mr. Wolfgang Srb, FIM Europe President; Mr. Giuseppe Luongo, Youthstream President; Mr. John Van Den Berk, MXGP Academy Trainer     August 3rd, at MXGP of Belgium, round fifteen of the FIM Motocross World Championship in Lommel, Youthstream President Mr. Giuseppe Luongo joined FIM Europe President Dr. Wolfgang Srb, FIM Europe Secretary General Alessandro Sambuco and MXGP Academy trainer and two-time FIM Motocross World Champion John Van Den Berk in a press conference to announce that as of 2015 Youthstream’s latest project the ‘MXGP Academy’ will be officially managed by FIM Europe but will still receive on-going support from Youthstream. The MXGP Academy trains, develops and guides young riders to achieve everything they can within the sport of motocross. Because the project targets our youth, with the youth being linked heavily to their national motorcycling federations, the next logical step in the evolution of the MXGP Academy project was

The series of meetings planned by FIME President Dr.Wolfgang Srb continues without a break, in order to outline quickly a framework of the current situation and future plans concerning Continental Motorcycling. On July 31st a joint meeting took place between FIM Europe President Wolfgang Srb, accompanied by the General Secretary Alessandro Sambuco, and the FIM Executive Office, represented by Ignacio Verneda, executive director of Sports Division, Steve Aeschlimann, executive director of Operations Division, and Francoise Emery, Strategy and Planning manager. The meeting was held in the Swiss city of Mies, at the FIM provisional headquarters, while the new offices are being built in the same site as the previous building in Geneve. The most important part of the meeting was devoted to discussion on sports issues with Ignacio Verneda: the current situation and future developments in all disciplines were diffusedly analized. With Steve Aeschlimann and Françoise Emery future procedures were

Jere Haavisto followed his win in yesterday’s race with another dominant performance today to take the overall Grand Prix victory, but it was Brit Albie Wilkie who had the biggest smile at the chequered flag as he was crowned the 2014 Honda 150 European Champion. Just five points separated the two contenders coming into today’s race so it was always going to be a close-run affair. As Haavisto rode away from the field to take his fifth race win of the season, all eyes were on Wilkie as he fought towards the front from sixth position. In a repeat of yesterday, it was Wilkie versus Rick Elzinga for second place, but this time the championship title was at stake. A third place wasn’t enough for Wilkie; he had to finish second. As Jere disappeared into the distance, able to do no more to strengthen his chances of overhauling Albie in

We’ve reached the seventh and final round of the European Championship EMX300 series and the sound of twenty-six 300cc two strokes ripping around a track still sounds as mint as it did at the first round of the championship back in April this year. When the gates dropped for the final race of the season, the newly crowned EMX300 champion TM Racing Team’s Samuele Bernardini carried that same momentum he’s been carrying all championship long around turn one with yet another holeshot. Although it appeared the Italian would check out as he set the fastest lap of the race on lap one putting a three second cushion on yesterday’s fastest rider GL12 Racing’s Lewis Gregory, he threw it away with a high side on lap two which dropped him back to tenth. Gregory exhibiting that same aggression and intensity he showed in race one yesterday afternoon was quick to capitalize

With eight different race winners and five different round winners this season, the seventh and final round here in the savage sand of Lommel delivered what was the most intense and dramatic yet exhilarating end to what was easily the best ever season of European Championship EMX250 racing. With the championship being more or less narrowed down to two riders heading into the final race of the championship, the red plate holder CNC Doors KTM’s Steven Clarke and HSF Logistics Motorsport Team’s Brian Bogers carried the weight of the world on their shoulders. When the gate fell for the last time this season, the guy trailing the championship leader Clarke by eleven points coming in, Brian Bogers, stole the holeshot immediately sending both the crowd and pit-lane into turmoil. While most eyes were on the positions of Bogers and Clarke, it was Kemea Yamaha Racing’s Nick Kouwenberg actually stole the