Enduro

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)

The fourth and last round of the Enduro European Championship will be held from the 18th to the 20th of October 2013 in Ourem Fatima (Portugal). The registered riders can be viewed in the following link.   (FIM Europe Press Release 153/2013)

At the second day at the European Enduro-Championship in Uhlirske Janovice you have had nearly the same winners in the overall. The Italian Maurizio Micheluz won – but this time in front of his countryman Andrea Beconi, who was third on Saturday. Now on position three a totally unknown rider: The German Andreas Beier, who is only a guest and this for had to start in the back of the field. That means that the KTM-rider had to overtake a lot of slower riders, starting just in front of him! Overall champion Maurizio Micheluz (Suzuki) won the E1-class too – this on second position the German Edward Hübner (Yamaha), while the Portuguese Luis Oliveira (Yamaha) became third. The overall second, Beconi (Yamaha), won the E2-class in front of Andreas Beier, who stopped first day with technical problems at his frontbrake. The Brit Tom Sagar became third with his handicap, a

At the third competition of the Enduro-European-Championship in Uhlirske Janovice / CZ the Italian Maurizio Micheluz won the overall in front of his country people Gianluca Martini an Andrea Beconi. – For this three different classes and three different brand of bikes (Suzuki, Beta, Yamaha) are on the top position! Overall winner Maurizio Micheluz (Suzuk) won with a huge gap also the E1-class in front of the Portuguese Luis Oliveira (Yamaha) and the German Edward Hübner (Yamaha). The overall-second Martini won the E3-class too – in front of his countrymen Jacopo Cerutti (TM) and Mirko Gritti (KTM). The third in the overall, Beconi (Yamaha), won the E2-class in front of the british rider Jamie Lewis (Honda) and the Frenchman Romain Dumontier (Yamaha). Allready at place 6 in the overall the first Junior was Nicolas Pellegrinelli (KTM): Pellegrinelli won the Junior E1 with the smaller displacement engines. Second in this class