Enduro

The second round of the Tout Terrain European Cup was held in Greece. In the context of the Hellas Rally, which sees 285 entries, 46 riders took part to the European Cup. The event started on Monday 21st finished on Sunday 27th. After the first 5 days, French Loic Minaudier was the leader of the overall, ahead of Italian Jacopo Cerutti and Spanish Dani Oliveiras. Day 6 Italian Andrea Mancini snatched the first position at the end of the day. Second position in the absolute standing of French Sebastien Souday, winner of Quad category, who has been bettering every day and who was particularly performing on Day 6’s fast routes. The second position in the Bikes was for Italian Jacopo Cerutti, who has so far won 2 wins and 3 second places and is and 5th in the overall category. With this win, Andrea Mancini went into the lead of

The second round of the Tout Terrain European Cup is being held in Greece. In the context of the Hellas Rally, which sees 285 entries, 46 riders take part to the European Cup. The event started on Monday 21st and is scheduled to finish on Sunday 27th. Loic Minaduier - © Photo Actiongraphers Day 1 In the 97 km race, the fastest competitor was Italian Jacopo Cerutti, who also won the C category. Second position for French Loic Minaduier, ahead of the current FIM European Tout Terrain Cup’s leader, Andrea Mancini. Of the 285 starters, category C drivers dominated the field. In the wonderful Greek environment, there were no accidents on the heavy track. Day 2 In the second racing day, the riders had to face at first the sandy dunes of the Peloponnesos beaches. At the beginning Spanish Marc Sola Terradellas was the fastest, but the winner of the

The Day2 of the second round of Enduro European Championship was held today at Bacau, in Romania. Despite the rain at night, the track was probably even better than the day before. In addition, there was not so much dust, which had partly led to visibility problems on the first day and the ground was partially more handy. The leader of the overall championship, Italian Alessandro Battig, took his revenge. Yesterday he had lost a lot of time in the difficult uphill, where he had to push and fight, but things went smoothly for the Kawasaki rider today. Already in the first special-test of the day he was able to set the fastest time. In the new modified enduro test, in which the increasingly difficult uphill was cut out, he managed to gain the overall victory in the end of the day. However, young Swede Erik Appelqvist finished dangerously close to

In the first day of the second round of the European Enduro Championship in Bacau, Romania, the French rider Hugo Blanjoue won on his KTM: being 23 years old, he races in the Junior class where he leads the standings. Second place in the overall for Erik Appelqvist from Sweden (photo2) ahead of Czech Krystof Kouble: they all from the Junior class of the E2/E3. After his overall victory at the first round in his home country, Italian Alessandro Battig decided to compete in the other rounds of the European Championship too. Battig won his class, but in the overall classification the Kawasaki rider snatched the sixth place, which however consents him to maintain his lead in the championship. Two more class victories went to his Italian compatriots: in the two-stroke class up to 250 cc the winner was Maurizio Micheluz on Husqvarna and Tommaso Montanari on KTM was the

The European Cross Country Cup was held at Lathi (Finland) in front of around 1000 spectators in nice, sunny weather. The track was around 15 kms long and very well prepared, no big holes, stones and other difficult, dangerous zones. After 9 laps and 3 hours of hard race there were no dramatic situations or accidents (7 laps for Women’s class). Created with Nokia Smart Cam The winners were Joakim Ljunggren from Sweden in the Senior Class, Antti Ahtila from Finland in the Junior Class, Marko Leponiemi from Finland in the Veteran Class and Marita Nyqvist from Finland in the Women’s Class. Full results on FIM Europe website: http://www.fim-europe.eu/events/535  

The new season of the European Enduro Championship started this weekend at Fabriano (Italy), around 200 kms North-East of Rome. Day1 - The first winner in this competition was Italian Alessandro Battig (photo2). The European champion Matteo Pavoni was fighting against his countrymen Maurizio Micheluz and Alessandro Battig. Not so strong at the beginning, Pavoni increased in the last five special tests, but Micheluz and Battig were already too far ahead. This year Battig is riding a 450cc Kawasaki instead of the smaller 250cc as in the last seasons, which helped him to win the overall. Photos @Robert Pairan Micheluz was second and won the new 250-2-stroke class, while the former Junior champion Pavoni was third in the overall and won the over 250 cc 2-stroke class. Fourth position for Lorenzo Macoritto, who won the Junior class ahead of Czech Krystof Kouble, first not Italian rider. The Women’s class was

The final round of Superenduro Cup was held in Lidköping in Sweden, where the German rider Tim Apolle arrived as the leader of the general standings with 15 points of advantage on the other riders. Above Tim Apolle in action. Below, Andris Grinfelds. All photos ©Robert Pairan Already in the qualifying Apolle was nearly 4 seconds faster than his rival Andris Grinfelds from Latvia, who followed him in the series. In the first heat the German rider gained the leadership at the start and already after one lap he had to fight with the first slow riders. But Apolle kept cool and safe and won the race. His advantage grew to 18 points – not enough for the title, but a comfortable gap, while Grinfelds was fighting from ninth position to second place. In the second heat, with reversed start, there was the inevitable traffic jam at the first obstacle.

The first round of GIANT Snowmobile Enduro FIM European Cup was held at Kemijärvi, in Finland, with 29 participants, in front of around 200 spectators in the first day and 500 in the second day. The weather was cloudy, with temperatures from -3 to -8 C° degrees and about 1 meter of snow. Day 1 - Nice and long special tests were challeanging for the riders. Three special tests were more than 50 km long and one was shorter for spectators near the city. In the Veteran class among the participants there were Tapio Nevala President of Finnish Motorcycle Federation (photo1) and Kurt Ljungqvist General Secretary (photo2). The winners in day one were Tuula Havumäki in Women, Saku Niskanen in the Junior, Teppo Käkelä in the Senior, Jukka Nyberg in the Veteran. Day 2 - During the night and morning about 5 cm of snow fell down so conditions were

The atmosphere in the Biskaia Arena was electric for the 2nd round of the European Superenduro Cup. A little over 6000 fans came to the Bilbao Exhibition Center to cheer on the best international riders – the event hosted, in fact, also the 4th round of the Maxxis FIM Superenduro Maxxis FIM Superenduro World Championship. The show, which was full-on, complete with enthusiastic cheerleaders and shockingly unpredictable races. Great challenge between French Jacon Adrien and German Tim Apolle, winner of the first round in Poland, who raced with a KTM 300 that he will also use in the German Enduro Championship. The first manche was regular, while in the second final, just after the start, the crash of a rider slowed the race of the best ones, who had to make difficult comebacks, on the very technical track set up in the city of the Basque Country. This race saw

The new season of SuperEnduro started in style - it was an overwhelming reception in the Tauron Arena for the opening round of the 2018 season of the Maxxis FIM SuperEnduro World Championship, and in this context the first round of the FIM Europe SuperEnduro Cup started, too, in front of 12,000 Polish spectators who were thrilled by the exploits of the 75 riders entered from 22 nations. With a win in both heats in the evening, German Tim Apolle is in the lead of the Cup. Photos ©Robert Pairan The first heat was not so difficult for the Husqvarna rider, because he won the qualification, which gave him the chance to be the first rider to choose the place at the starting-gate. And he did a good start, took the lead after three corners and continued without riding mistakes, winning the first race. “I was lucky this time, let’s