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The last round of the UEM Cross Country Cup was held in the Slovakian track of Kielce. The winners of this round in the different classes were: EC Junior: 1st round Pawel Szymkowski (POL, Husaberg); 2nd round Maciej Giemza (POL, KTM) EC Senior: 1st round Jaroslav Strbek (SVK, Suzuki); 2nd round Lukasz Kedzierski (POL, Yamaha) EC Veteran: 1st round Marcin Tynowski (POL,KTM); 2nd round Ryszard Augustyn (POL, ) EC Quad: 1st round Damian Rajczyk (POL, Yamaha); 2nd round Slawomir Sobiesak (POL, KTM) The new Champions are: Junior: Pawel Szymkowski (POL, Husaberg) Senior: Jaroslav Strbek (SVK, Suzuki) Veteran: Marcin Tynowski (POL,KTM) Quad: Dawid Kalinowski (POL, KTM) (UEM Press Release 112/2012)

The sixth round of the MAXXIS EMX Quad European Championship was run this weekend in Kegums (Latvia). The 2012 European Champion title was already assigned in La Capelle Marival to Jeremie Warnia In race 1, best start for Estonian rider Halliko Andro. After 3 laps the new European Champion Jeremy Warnia took the leader position and finished first in front of the 18 years old Dutch rider Mike van Grinsven and ACU rider Paul Holmes. In race 2, best start for Warnia in front of van Grinsven. They finished on this position in front of Holmes who fought the whole race with Latvian rider Edgars Mengelis for the 3rd place. The medals for the Championship was given by UEM Vice-President, Mrs. Nina Birjukova, to:  1st Jeremy Warnia (FRA) 2nd Paul Holmes (GBR) 3rd Mike van Grinsven (NED) (UEM Press Release 111/2012)

The third round of the Trial European Championship was held this weekend in Krzeszowice (Poland). On the muddy sections due to a lot of rain dropped the day before and for almost fifty percent of the competition, the riders belonging to Italian team showed more and more to be prepared on this kind of terrain. At least to have had bad weather on many Italian rounds in their national championship improved their experience in this case. Matteo Grattarola (Gas Gas) won the “queen” class dominating from the beginning. Even an exaggerate five at the last section of the first lap, given to him by a very strict observer just for having entered the section by foot, did not annoyed him. He kept his cool and in the second lap, he even increased his lead , to get his third win in a row. In second place, Italian Matteo Poli (Ossa)

The UEM Trials Championship is entering its hot phase: in less than one month here are the four rounds left. Next Sunday it is the turn of Poland to host the number three in the series. The venue is Krzeszowice, small town not far from Krakow, already visited by European circus in 2010. After the decision taken by the Trial Commission to lower the age limit from 18 to 16 years for participating in the International Class, and in case of closed circuit, to let the young riders riding even motorbikes over 125cc, here is the right place for testing this new rule. Indeed, at the top of the hill outside the town, around a soccer field, there is a large area dedicated to the sections of this event, completely off-road. It also looks very easy for the spectators to follow the whole competition by foot. In the Top class,

The Enduro European Championship final will be held from 17th to 19th August 2012 in Krompachy (Slovakia). This competition is formed of three days, with the third and final dayfully dedicated to motocross. The three days will have also an additional Team Championship, similar to the Six Days event. The individual classes, are very interesting too: The favourites are clear, but still nothing is defined right now. For this reason, also the Estonian Aigar Leok, goes back to the start, as he has the last chance to get the overall win and the title of "Overall". In the E3 class, however, the Italian Maurizio Micheluz holds the lead in the championship. In the E2 class lead the Belgian Cedric Cremer, in the E1 class, the Finn Roni Nikander. Krompachy is well known as an organizer in the Enduro scene - various international predicates have been hold there already - this

For the first time in the history of the UEM the Individual Speedway European Championship will be held as Final Series with four Finals in four different countries. The finals will be held as follows: Final 1 EMN 50/5 Rawic, Poland on 18th August 2012 Final 2 EMN 50/6 Daugavpils, Latvia on 1st September 2012 Final 3 EMN 50/7 Krsko, Slovenia on 15th September 2012 Final 4 EMN 50/8 Mureck, Austria on 30th September 2012 The first three placed riders from the European Championship 2011 will lead the official starting list, completed by the best eight riders from the 2012 qualification system. The following four riders have been nominated by the UEM Track Racing Commision: Max Dilger, DMSB Jozsef Tabaka, MAMS Claus Vissing, DMU Maks Gregoric, AMZS To complete the 18 riders squad, each federation organizing one of the Finals can apply for a Wild Card rider and two track

The 7th round of the Superstock 600 European Championship series and the 8th round of the KTM European Junior Cup were run today in Silverstone (Great Britain). Both races were delayed due to the rainy weather and both races were shortened with 2 laps. In the Superstock 600 race, during the 2nd lap four riders crashed and the race was stopped by the Red Flag. The restarted race gave four riders in a group and they stayed all the race rather close together, where Gauthier Duwelz had the lead. But in the last part of the final lap, he crashed and Italian Riccardo Russo (Yamaha), Dutch Michael Van der Mark (Honda) and British Lee Jackson (Kawasaki) finished in this order. In the provisional rankings, the points gap between the first two riders in the Championship is only 3 (Russo and Van der Mark), but between the third placed rider (Duwelz)

Excellent conditions for motocross in the EMX250cc European Championship event held in Loket (Czech Republic) this weekend in front of more than 25.000 spectators. Sixty-four riders from 18 countries were present at the fourth event of the EMX250 2012 Championship. First race of this event was brilliantly won by French rider Maxime Desprey (Kawasaki) who managed to lead from start to finish. British rider Mel Pocock (Yamaha), who won every race of the three previous rounds, came in second place at the finish line of the 15 lap race, while third step of the podium was occupied by Slovenian Tim Gasjer (KT), after winning an early battle with Danish Stefan Kjer Olsen (Yamaha). Second race started with the same Maxime Desprey (Kawasaki) in the lead, followed by British Mel Pocock (Yamaha), Slovenian Tim Gasjer (KTM) and Swiss Jeremy Seewer (Suzuki). Second lap of the race the French-man crashes out of

The UEM Trial Commission decided, during the UEM Congress in Belgrade, to lower the age limit from 18 to 16 years of age for participating in the International Class during a Trial European Championship event. As there is no overall classification for the International Class, the commission set the application date for this change to August 1st 2012 to make it possible for 16 and 17 year old riders to benefit from this change for the remaining four European Championship events. The correct wording of the § TL 01.1 – GENERAL, 7th sub-section, will now be: “An International Class shall be included in each event for riders of at least 16 years of age who compete on the same Section route as the over 40 Cup”. An International Class shall be included in each event for riders of at least 16 years of age who compete on the same Section

The 4th and last round of the South Western Europe zone of the EMX65 and EMX85 Motocross European Championship events was held this weekend in Freixo (Portugal). The Swiss Xylian Ramella (KTM) won both races of EMX65, placing himself in front of French Brian Moreau (KTM) and Slovenian Luka Milec (KTM), who also finished second and third in both races. In the EMX 85 class, Spanish Jorge Prado (KTM) won the first race in front of Portuguese Jorge Maricato (KTM). Third place of the first race went to Spanish Adrian Gallardo (Suzuki). Italian Lorenzo Camporese (KTM) managed to win the second EMX 85 race, but his 12th place finish in the first race made him place just outside the overall podium. French David Herbreteau (Kawasaki) placed second in front of Spanish Jorge Prado (KTM), who finished third in the second race, but finally won the overall. The winners of the