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The fifth round of the Supermoto European Championship was held Saturday the 18th and Sunday the 19thof August in Lignères (Switzerland) with perfect weather conditions and without any serious accident. All the three heats were won by the Czech rider Peter Vorlicek (Honda), who become the 2012 European Champion with one round to go. In the Young trophy and the first heat was won by Italian Edgardo Borella (Yamaha) and the second and third one by the Dutch Devon Vermeulen (KTM), who leads now the provisional rankings with 233 points. The next and last round of the Championship is scheduled on the 23rd of September on the French track of Carole. (UEM Press Release 122/2012)

The 2012 UEM Grass Track Individual Final was certainly a hot competition with the event being staged in temperatures approaching 34 Celsius at Eenrum in the North of Holland. The 4000 spectators witnessed some very exciting racing with riders not giving a centimetre during the 12 qualify heats. Once all the points were totalled, the field of 18 riders were allocated to the three (C, B and A) Finals. With two places available for the winner and 2nd place from the B Final racing was again extremely competitive with Dirk Fabriek (FMB) and Glen Philips (ACU) joining Ales Dryml (ACCR), Stephan Katt (DMSB), Jörg Tebbe (DMSB) and Jannick de Jong (KNMV) in the final. With Ales Dryml being unbeaten during the qualifying heat, he started favorite. However Katt had other ideas and he out gated the other five riders, to lead the race from start to finish. (UEM Press Release

The fourth and last round of the Enduro European Championship was held in three days this weekend and was a great success. Great organisation, beautiful location and huge participation of riders (129) with nine national teams fighting for the Nations, 8 for the Nations Junior Trophy and 3 for the Veteran Trophy. The track was particularly attractive, with standards similar to a world competition. The Nations trophy was won by Italy, also the Junior Trophy, while the Veteran trophy went to the Czech team. The new European Champions are: E1 Junior: Martin Larsson (SWE, Husaberg) E2/3 Junior: Gianluca Martini (ITA, Beta) Junior U20: Guido Conforti (ITA, Yamaha) E1 Senior: Roni Nikander (FIN, KTM) E2 Senior: Cedric Cremer (BEL, KTM) E3 Senior: Maurizio Micheluz (ITA, Honda) Veteran: Werner Mueller (AUT, KTM) Women: Heike Petrick (GER, KTM) The award ceremony took place immediately after the event with the participation of UEM Vice-president

The first final of the Individual Speedway European Championship was held yesterday the 18th of August 2012 on the Polish track of Rawicz. The victory went to the Czech rider Ales Dryml in front of two Polish riders Tomasz Gapinski and Robert Miskowiak. The new format of the European Championship includes three more finals, to be held on the first of September in Daugavpils (Latvia), on the 15th of September in Krsko (Slovenia) and on the 30th of September in Mureck (Austria). (UEM Press Release 117/2012)

Still Italian riders at the top at Tanvald in Czech Republic in the fourth round of the UEM Trial Championship. A sunny day with hot temperature let the riders collect many cleans and dispute the competition as “walking on thin ice”, well knowing that any minimum mistake would have been unrecoverable. In the Top class, Matteo Grattarola (Gas Gas) gathered his four win in a row and stretched in the overall standing. He started soon on the right foot. In the first lap he only failed the very difficult section 11, delivering his card with only 5 points! Behind him, tied Martin Kroustek (Beta) and Matteo Poli (Beta), both carrying 11 marks. Still the best score for him in the second part, even if a bit worse (8 points), let him top the podium again. Kroustek kept the second position ahead of Poli, both quite distant from the winner. In

A great event was organised by ACU in collaboration with Youthstream from the 16th to the 19th of August with the finals of the EMX 65 cc. and EMX 85 cc. classes after the regional qualification rounds and with the sixth round of the 125cc Motocross European Championship and the fifth round of the EMX 250 cc class. The meeting was organised at a top level and was characterised by good weather at the main days with many spectators the motocross world saw the world biggest MX event ever held! Over 5 days Motocross in 10 classes (MX1, MX2, MX3, WMX, VMX, Amateurs and the European: EMX65, EMX85, EMX125, EMX250). Nearly 400 riders were present! In the EMX 65 cc. and in the EMX 85 cc. classes the new 2012 European Champions were awarded, respectively the Swiss Xylian Ramella (KTM) and the Dutch Davy Pootjes (KTM) In the 125cc. class,

The UEM Trial Championship has just passed its turning point and proposes at the UEM Trial Circus a very well known and appreciated venue: the closed circuit of Tanvald, North of Czech Republic, close to the border of Poland. That is very convenient for the riders that have just competed near Krakow in the last week-end. In the last two years Tanvald was chosen as final round of the championship and the slippery rocks situated in the thick wood have decreed the winners in the various classes. This time the round held was only the number 4th in the series, but still on Saturday it has been scheduled the second round of the Youth and Women Championship. Two intense days of sport with the best of the very young riders coming all over our continent. The first Youth round was organized on Easter in Italy and the winner was Spanish

The fourth round of the Dragbike European Championship was held from the 10th to the 12th of August in Hockenheim (Germany). In the Super Street Bike class (UEM-Cup), after the three qualifications passes Sotiris Tsakiris (GR) was number one with an 8,386 pass. Graham Balchin had the fastest top speed of 297,08 km/h. Winner was Richard Stubbins (UK), runner up Sotris Tsakiris (GR) who become the first Greek in a UEM-final. Graham Balchin (UK) is the leader of the championship In the Pro Stock Bike class, after the three qualification passes Fredrik Fredlund (FIN) was number one with an 7,269 pass. He also had a top speed of 301.24 km/h. Winner was Fredrik Fredlund (FIN), runner up Gert-Jan Laseur (NL). Fredrik Fredlund (FIN) is the leader of the championship In the Super Twin Top Fuel Bike class, after the three qualifications passes Samu Kemppaien (FIN) was number one with a

The first edition of the Hill Climbing Cup of European Nations was held yesterday in Arette (France) on the 12th of August in front of an huge crowd of 70.000 people with very good weather. The event registered the participation of 7 national teams and the presence of local television and it offered an exciting show with great performances by the best European specialists of this discipline. The victory went to the French team followed by Estonia and the Netherlands. (UEM Press Release 115/2012)

The Semi-Final 1 and Semi-Final 2 of the Youth Speedway Racing European Cup 80cc were held yesterday in Czestochowa Poland). In the first Semi-Final Victory went to Danish rider Sam Jensen, followed by two other Danish riders Frederik Jakobsen and Mads Hansen. In the second Semi-Final again the first three riders from Denmark: Sebastian Mortensen, Jonas Jensen and Andreas Lyager. The final was won by Danish Frederik Jakobsen, second position to Danish Andreas Lyager and third position to Danish Jason Jorgensen. (UEM Press Release 110/2012)