Enduro

Today the local rider Rannar Uusna (class Senior E3) won the opening day of the Enduro European Championship Round 2 in Paikuse, Estonia. “I made one small mistake in the Enduro Test but otherwise I had a smooth day“, said Uusna who after the first round of the Championship was holding the fifth position. Before the race Uusna set out to win in the familiar sandy conditions of his home country and he kept his promise.  “I had no problems today with my bike and I rode as well as I could.“ Uusna's time today was 42:25.97 and he was 3 seconds faster than the second in overall classification – Matteo Pavoni from Italy who also won the Junior E1 class. The third in overall classification and the winner of the Junior Under 20 class was Joakim Grelsson from Sweden – he was 9 seconds slower than Pavoni. Esimene päev

After heavy rain the conditions of the first round of the European Enduro Championship at Gouveia, in Portugal, changed over the night and the track switched into a good shape today. Without the dust, senior E3 class Italian Oscar Balletti took the overall win in front of the reigning champion, his compatriot Maurizio Micheluz. Photo @Robert Pairan - Oscar Balletti Third place in the overall ranking for a rider, who was still a junior last year: Olivier Nelson. In the first day, the Swedish rider had big disadvantages through the dust. Andreas Linusson, also from Sweden, who has had switched from 300 2-stroke to the 250 4-stroke KTM, won the senior E1 class. He also took the lead in the championship, ahead of French Luc Breban and of the reigning champion of the class, Italian Guido Conforti, who took the second place in Day2. With his fantastic performance in the

The first round of the European Enduro Championship started today at Gouveia, in Portugal. On the demanding track, among rocks and stones and a lot of dust, the French junior rider Theophile Espinasse took the first victory. The Sherco rider won all the first five tests and finished 25,6 seconds in front of Italian Oscar Balletti. The latter had an advantage from the technical problems of Anthony Geslin – the French was second until but he had technical problems at the last timecheck and dropped down to 14th position. Photo @Robert Pairan - Theophile Espinasse Espinasse won the junior E2/E3 class as well, with more than half a minute of advantage on his compatriots David Abgrail and Hugo Balanjoue. In the junior-class E1 the first place went to French Jeremy Miroir, who won ahead of Italian Matteo Rossi and of Czech Kristof Kouble. Among the under 20 Brit Daniel Mundell

The new season of the Enduro European Championship is ready to kick off in two weeks, on 29/30 of April in Portugal. In Gouveia a challenging area is waiting for the riders, right at the border of the Serra da Estrela Natural Park. The local motoclub is busy in preparing everything: the special cross-test and enduro-test are all within walking distance from the paddock. Around on the track there are some more spectacular places. Photo @Robert Pairan The start of the three rounds, each of 55 km, will be at 9:00 am, and the arrival is expected at 3:00 pm. The reigning champion Brad Freeman is not going to take part to the series, because aftern winning the European series he has become a factory rider for Beta in the world championship. This means that this year the series will have a new overall champion. Last season’s second, the Czech

The first round of the European Baja Championship was held at Bugac, in Hungary. In the Quad class Iaroslav Tovstyk from Ukraine was the winner in front of Przemyslaw Pawlowski from Poland and Olga Roucková from Czech Republich. There was a special standing for women and  Olga Roucková was the winner in front of Sandra Ulrichova and Agata Stefaniak (in the photo).

In the weekend from Friday 24th to Sunday 26th March, the follow­ing European races will be held: 24-26 March - European Baja Championship at  Bugac/Hungary.  

Mike Hartmann (Photo @Robert Pairan) The second and final round of the European Super Enduro Cup was held at Albi, in France, in the context of the the FIM Maxxis SuperEnduro World Championship. In the European class German Mike Hartmann (Husqvarna) proved unbeatable as he raced his way to a double victory and the European Cup title confirming the title he had won last year. Adrian Jacon (KTM) from France conquered the second place in the race, which is remarkable considering that he is a rookie. Harmann won the Cup in front of his compatriots Marcel Teucher (KTM) and Felix Braeuer (KTM). Full results on FIM Europe website: www.fim-europe.eu/events/306

In the weekend from Saturday 18th to Sunday 19th March, the follow­ing European races will be held: 18-19 March - European Motocross EMX 65/85 at Giannitsa/Greece 18 March - European Super Enduro Cup at Albi/France. Photo @Youthstream

In the weekend from Friday 10th to Sunday 12th March, the follow­ing European races will be held: 10-11 March - European Snowmobile Enduro Cup at Kemijärvi/Finland.

The first round of the European Extreme Enduro Cup was held at Tong, Leeds, in Great Britain. The expected snow and bad weather never materialised and although the race started in wet weather and the course remained wet and muddy, there was no heavy rain but even some sunny conditions. Extreme Enduro specialist Graham Jarvis took the lead from the start. The expected challenge from David Knight, multi-world champion and multi-winner of this event did not happen because Knight crashed heavily on Lap 1 and was forced to retire. Ex Trial star Billy Bolt now concentrating on Extreme Enduro challenged Jarvis in the early stages, but then Graham started racing with his normal, smooth style he gained a good gap. Paul Bolton, coming back from a long period of stop due to injury, did a really good race, struggling with Bolt. Jarvis had never won this event and was determined