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Built in a rock quarry the circuit of Uddevalla brought fourth a new challenge for the riders of the EMX250 with the terrain being incredibly hard to read, a little loose and stoney on top with a hard pack base. While race one saw Wilvo Forkrent KTM’s Adam Sterry look the most smooth and steady on the slippery surface as he took home his first ever EMX250 race victory, a few errors and a shocking start in race two early this morning saw his chance at a podium quickly diminish. Meanwhile, with the dawning of a new day and the start of the second race, it was Hitachi Construction Machinery UK KTM’s Ben Watson who took the advantage of riding with a clear track when he took the holeshot ahead of Bud Racing Kawasaki’s Sullivan Jaulin and Kemea Yamaha Racing Team’s latest edition Nick Kouwenberg. While the trio up front

British Gas Gas rider Dan Peace kept up is 100% record in the 2014 European Youth Trial Championship with a win in Krzeszowice today. Dan's 10 mark loss put him 3 clear of a tie between Italian Luca Petrella on his Ossa and Beta mounted British rider Toby Martyn with the Italian rider taking second place with more clean rides. Theresa Bauml was victorious in a closely fought women class losing 23 marks which was 3 less than her German compatriot Ina Wilde who was in turn 4 ahead of Italian Sara Trentini. It was a great day for the German women, taking 5 of the first 6 positions. In the international competition Pia Emonts won the women's class from Nadine Faude and Millie Ray with Scandinavian riders dominating the International Youth event. The trial was held near the town of Krzeszowice in beautiful weather and will on Sunday welcome

The 5th round of the Superstock 600 FIM-Europe Championship took place today on the Autódromo Internacional do Algarve (Portugal). Marco Faccani (San Carlo Team Italia Kawasaki) has won the fifth round of the European Superstock 600cc Championship and the third race in a row. After a close fight, Wayne Tessels (Wayne Racing Team) took the second place ahead of Federico Caricasulo (Evan Bros. Racing Team). The top six was completed by Illya Mikhalchik (Team Go Eleven) ahead of Richard Bodis (Talmacsi Racing) and Andrea Tucci (San Carlo Team Italia). Three riders went down in the first corner after the start of the race. All riders were uninjured. Third in the general Championship, Niki Tuuli (Kallio Racing Yamaha) did not finish the race due to technical problem. The 6th round of the Road Racing European Honda Junior Cup was held today in Portimão (Portugal). The Championship leader Augusto Fernandez (WIL Sport)

The second day at the third round of the Enduro European Championship (EEC) in Casanova di Staffora / Italy was won by the Italian rider Maurizio Micheluz. The reigning champion had a tight fight with his countryman Jacopo Cerutti. The winner of the first day, the Brit Tom Sagar, lost a lot of time already in the first lap, when he had a very hard crash in the Enduro-Test. This for he couldn’t reach the two Italians. The heavy rain at the end of the day doesn’t help him too: the last test became very slippery and difficult. The rain started, when the first rider arrived and became more and more. This is the reason that the 17 year old junior Brad Freeman from England won this test took the second place in the overall! This is, why you find his foto in here – while the junior-classes are starting

The sixth and final round in European Championship EMX 85cc & EMX 65cc, and the 7th round in EMX Open was this weekend held in Senkvice, Slovakia. On a very hot Saturday the organizer has made a great work with watering the track, and the qualifying races went very well. In the EMX 85cc it was Gianluca FACCHETTI (ITA) the fastest rider and got the pole position in the Sunday races. In the EMX 65cc it was Noel NIELSSON (SWE) who got the pole position. In the EMX Open class the fastest rider was Semen ROGOZIN (RUS). Sunday´s races were under great conditions except the last hour, when huge thunderstorm came and due to this Jury commission decided to shortened EMX 65 second race and cancelled EMX OPEN second race. The first race In EMX 85cc meant victory for Taylor HAMMAL (GBR) who secured by this his overall victory in

Serbian Motocross Club Gajici was this weekend the host of the last 65cc -85cc round of the South Eastern European Zone. Seven thousand people gathered under the warming Sun to enjoy the beautiful races the MX kid riders in EMX65 and EMX85 were ready to perform. Bulgarian Hakan Halmi (KTM) was the winner of the day in EMX85, having won both races by a large gap in front of Bulgarian rider Alex Dimitrov (KTM) who managed to finish second in both races as well, maintaining a 2 point lead in front of Hakan Halmi in the overall where Alex Dimitrov was second and Hakan Halmi third. Third in both races was Bulgarian rider Momchil Ivanov (KTM). Even though absent for the race, Croatian rider Nikola Hranic won the overall of the South Eastern Zone with 163 points, 12 more than Alex Dimitrov. EMX65 was a Hungarian affair with Adam Kovacs

As happened in Italy at the first round, Belgian Maxime Warenghien (Sherco), German Sascha Neumann (Gas Gas) and Finn Jussi Haapanen (Gas Gas) won their respectively classes in this second day, in Tanvald, Czech Republic. This was the fourth and penultimate round of the 2014 FIM Europe Championship. Four sections were modified to make them more difficult, after having seen the scores of yesterday, and the weather was again clement for the whole event. After the convincing victory of day one, all eyes were focused on German Franz Kadlec (Beta) to watch and admire his precise riding. And he did not disappoint his fans, gaining the leadership at half competition as he did 24-hours before. Best score (7 marks) and all rivals behind. But this time not too distant. Werenghien scored 12, same for British Jack Price (Gas Gas). Then Norwegian Hakon Pedersen (Ossa with just 3 marks more. At

The 125cc Track Racing European Cup was held yesterday in the Czech track of Plzen. Winner of the event was Dutch Jarmo Vires, followed by Polish Marcel Studzinski and Polish Marcin Koscielski.      Download here FIM Europe Press Release 100/2014   

German Franz Kadlec (Beta) dominated the scene in this first day in Tanvald, Czech Republic, valid as third round of the 2014 FIM Europe Trial Championship. His total score of 10 points is almost one third of what done by the second, Martin Kroustek, proud to bring on podium his Beta 4 stroke: the only one at this level on a not updated model. In third position another “local” rider, Jiri Svoboda (Beta) ahead of one of the favourites, Italian Luca Cotone (Sherco). Against the odds the weather: for the first time in tre latest years, Tanvald offered a sunny day, consequently the scores in all the classes lowered dramatically. Kadlec demonstrated soon to be able to ride one step above his rivals. On the 15 sections, after the first loop, he lost 8 marks. Svoboda was not too distant (13), then Cotone (17). But the second lap of the

The first day at the third round of the Enduro European Championship (EEC) in Casanova di Staffora / Italy was won by the British rider Tom Sagar on his KTM: he was 51 seconds in front of the reigning Champion Maurizio Micheluz and his countryman Jacopo Cerutti – Both couldn’t take time from their “home-advantage”. Micheluz took the second place in the last of the six tests – which came together to 50 minutes: “I know, Jacco was only fife seconds far, so I pushed as hard as possible.” This helped him to win this enduro-test with 8 seconds in front of Cerutti and so he took the second place of the day. With this we already have the the winner of three main classes. The E1-Class was won by Suzuki-rider Maurizio Micheluz with nearly 50 seconds in front of the Swiss Jonathan Rosse on the Yamaha and the British