Enduro

The overall-victory at the second day of the enduro-european-championship was for Tom Sagar: The British rider had to quit at the first day and had to change the motor of his KTM. But with the 20 points at the second day live becomes a little bit more easy for him: “In the penultimate test I had a crash and lost some time – so I wasn’t sure, if it will be a good end at all.” Second in the overall was his fellow countryman Jamie Lewis in front of the first-day-winner Maurizio Micheluz, who will still lead the championship. Also in the E1-Class Micheluz is leading with his Suzuki, because he won the second time – just in front of the french Kevin Rohmer, who let Jack Rowland with his Husqvarna go onto third place. The E2-Class was the Class of Tom Sagar, who won in front of Jamie Lewis

The overall champion from last year, the Italian Maurizio Micheluz, won the first day of the season-opener in Antans, South of Spain. In the last of the three rounds he was the only one which took the steep and direct line with his Suzuki in the extreme-test – and took the win in this way! Second in the overall was the British junior Steve Holcombe on a KTM in front of his fellow-countryman, the European-junior-champion Jack Rowland: Rowland is riding this year in the E1-Class and there he took the second place right behind Micheluz and the Belgian Cedric Cremer. This former European-Champion is now starting with a smaller 250-4-stroke KTM after a years break! The E2-Class of the seniors won Jamie Lewis, the Husqvarna-Team-member an compatriot from Rowland, in front of the two Czechs Ondrej Helmich and Jakub Sefr. The Frenchman Julien Jagu won in front of his TM-Team-Member,

99 riders registered for the first round of the Enduro European Championship scheduled this weekend in Antas, in Southern Spain. The Championship will then follow with the event held in Bacau (Romania) on the 31st of May-1st of June, then it will be hosted in Santa Margherita di Staffora (Italy) on the 28th and 29th of June. The last round will be the three-days-final scheduled in Tokod (Hungary) on the 5th-6th and 7th of September. More detailed information on the Championship and each round are available on the Championship website: www.FIM-Enduro-european-championship.com The full Entry list can be viewed in the following page.     Download here FIM Europe Press Release 017/2014 including the full Entry List of the first round in Antas  

The new FIM Europe Extreme Series started on Sunday the 2nd of March with the first event “Eddy's Xtreme” at the famous Back Cown Quarry in the Lancashire region (Great Britain). The podium was completely British with victory of David Knight (Sherco). Second position to Jonny Walker (KTM) and third position to Paul Bolton (KTM). The next round will be held in Piatra Neamt (Romania) from the 20th to the 22nd of June.   Download here FIM Europe Press Release 010/2014

The FIM Europe Extreme Series will be in its first year, and riders who participate on this events can secure FIME points. More good news for European riders is that they will be able to run with their normal national licence (and starting permission issue from their Federation) and that should ensure no extra costs for them. The series will start this year and many predict that it will grow and grow, and each organizers will show that he can provide the quality of event required. Further details of the FIME rounds will be available very shortly. The 2014 Extreme Enduro Cup events will be the following: 02.03.2014 Back Cown Quarry QUARRY, Witwort, Lancashire (Great Britain, ACU) “Eddy Extreme” 20-22.06.2014 Pietra Neamt (Romania, FRM) “HEPN Hard Enduro Pietra Neamt” 25-26.07.2014 Storstenhöjden (Sweden, SVEMO)„Battle of Wiking“ 25.10.2014 Drebach/Griessbach (Germany, DMSB)„GetzenRodeo“   Download here FIM Europe Press Release 003/2014

It is now possible to purchase online on www.european-enduro-championship.com the new DVD of the 2013 season of the Enduro European Championship. The DVD, produced by Enduro-Media, includes an extract of the four rounds that were held in Italy, France, Czech Republic and Portugal and offers a broad overview of all the action as in the crosstests and in the demanding stages of the 4 events. An additional chapter is dedicated to all the European champions in all classes. The DVD length is 75 minutes and costs 16,00 Euro (plus 2 Euro for shipping costs to Germany or 4 Euro for shipments to other European countries).   Download here FIM Europe Press Release 002/2014    

The Italian Maurizio Micheluz became three times European Enduro Champion: on the last day of the final in Ourem / Portugal he achieved the triple. He not only won the E1-class and the overall title, but was in the three days with the Italian Trophy also European team-champion! Together with Andrea Beconi, Mirko Gritti and the E3-European Champion Gianluca Martini, they won ahead of Britain and France. Tom Sagar needs no win in the E2-class too: He made the third place in the race behind his British countryman Jamie Lewis and the French Romain Dumontier. So he took the title in front of Italian Andrea Beconi. Even Jessica Jönsson from Sweden did not win the final cross: with the second place behind her rival, the Finn Sanna Karkkainen, she took the title in the women’s class. The same with the British Junior Jack Rowland in the small capacity class: he

Three new Enduro Champions were crowned on the second day of the Enduro European Championship finals in Ourem / Portugal. The track was made even more difficult by the nightly rains, so same passages has to been bypassed again. But the drivers where happy, that the distance of four had been shortened to the laps at least. In the Juniors-E2/E3-class the local hero Diego Ventura won the championship title with a second place behind the Swedish rider Tommy Sjoström. After Ventura already destroyed a radiator on the stage, his team slowed him down and let him drive safely. Not so safely continued the Italian Gianluca Martini: nevertheles, the Beta-Pilot finished the day in second place behind his countryman Mirko Gritti. This was not only the result in the E3-class, which made Martini an European Champion, it was also the result in the “Overall”! Both riders had led the field through

For the first time in this year, a local rider wins the overall-classification at the European Enduro Championship. Luis Oliveira from Portugal won in front of his countryman Diego Ventura and the English rider Tom Sagar. Fourth became Italian rider Gianluca Martini in front of his countryman Maurizio Micheluz, the leading man in the championship. Junior Ventura won also his class and is on the way to the title. Same with Tom Sagar in the E2-class, who made a bigger gap in the championship. Only winner Oliveira is in the class and in the overall-championship behind Micheluz and cannot become champion by himself – only if Micheluz will make a serious mistake. Veteran Werner Müller from Austria won again his class and is able to get his 7th (!) European-Title with only a third place in the next day. In the Juniors-class up to 20 years it could happen that

The European-Enduro-Championship (EEC) is coming to the final competition: all the titles will be assigned in Ourem-Fatima (Portugal) from the 18th to the 20th of October. Two days the riders will do a classic enduro with 12 tests and 220 km stage each day. On third day they will have final-cross-race. More informations and live-timings can be found on Championship website www.european-enduro-championship.com from the description of the track up to the entry form. (FIM Europe Press Release 154/2013)