Motoball

From Monday August 6th to Sunday August 12th the European Motoball Championship will be held in Kovrov (Russia). The City of Kovrov has a long history in Motoball Sport and is located about 300 km East of Moscow. The Governor of the Region Vladimir is supporting the Championship strongly and the Stadium was rebuilt during the last month to guarantee optimal conditions for the most important event in Motoball 2018. For the first time in Motoball Sport there will be 2 classes in the Championship. - One for Seniors and one for Juniors between 12 and 18 years of age. In the Senior class the Teams from Belarus, France, Germany, Lithuania, Netherlands and the hosting Team from Russia will participate. In parallel, the European Motoball Junior Championship will be held from August 08th to August 12th in the Stadium in Kovrov. The 4 Junior Teams from Belarus, France, Germany and

The European Motoball Championship finished with the victory of Russia on France and with the third place of Germany, while the Junior Final between Russia and Germany saw the German Team as the new European Junior Champion. Junior-Final 14:00 - Russia – Germany 2:3 In a very tight match Germany won 2:3. At the beginning the German team scored quickly, but Russia replied with the 1:1 just one minute later. In the second Quarter Germany went in front again, but Russia was fighting back and scored the 2:2 for the draw. In the last Quarter Germany was a bit stronger and scored the 3rd goal which decided the match for their colors. After the victory in 2016 in the Netherlands, Germany won also the European Junior Motoball Tournament 2017 in France. Congratulations to Russia for Silver and to France for Bronze. All the Junior Teams were showing excellent Motoball at

The European Motoball Games are going on in Cameret and Valreas, in France. In Day5, on Monday July 31st, five matches were held. The Junior Teams of Russia and Germany won their matches against France today and went into the Final, which will start today at 14.00 at Camaret. As for the Senior class, the first participant of the 2017 European Motoball Final is Russia. In a tight, high level match, Russia had the longer breath under the hot sun in Camaret. So Germany will take part to the match for the 3rd place, missing the Final for the first time since many years of presence. After the match of 19.30, the 2017 Final of the European Motoball Championship is complete: Russia and France will play the Final on August 1st 2017 at 20:30 in Camaret while Belarus and Germany will contend the third position in the match which will

The European Motoball Games are going on in Cameret and Valreas, in France. In Day4, on Sunday July 30th, seven matches were held. All photos © Ray 11th Senior-Game 11:00 - The Netherlands – Ukraine 13:2 The Netherlands won their first and only match against Ukraine. On the asphalt ground in the Stadium of Camaret, the Dutch Team was too fast for Ukraine. In this reason it was a clear result for the Orange team, but Ukraine also scored twice. 1st Junior-Game 13:00 - France – Russia 3:3 After the common breakfast and the friendly handshake the Junior matches started. Both Franch and Russian Teams were playing a technically excellent Motoball with nice combinations and perfect scores. At first it was France to pass ahead with 2:0 but after that Russia came back and did a draw in the last minute. 2nd Junior-Game 14:00 . France – Germany 0:2 In

The European Motoball Games are going on in Cameret and Valreas, in France. In Day3 four matches were held: Germany-Ukraine, Belarus-The Netherlands, Russia-Ukraine and France-Belarus. 7th Game 15:00 - Germany – Ukraine 10:0 Finally the Ukraine Team arrived in Valreas (they had a delay due to Visa issues and their first race – expected on Friday - was rescheduled on Sunday). Ukraine played the first match against Germany and they did well in the first Quarter. After that Germany started to score and the game ended with a clear 10:0 for Germany. All photos © Ray 8th Game 16:45 - Belarus – The Netherlands 4:1 The Netherlands was not able to put the Belarus Team under pressure, so Belarus played better during the first half of the match and scored four times. In the second half of The Netherlands was stronger and the Dutch team scored their first goal in

The European Motoball Games are going on in Cameret and Valreas, in France. In Day 2 three matches were held Russia-Belarus, Germany-Belarus and France-Germany. The match between The Netherlands and Ukraine was postponed to Sunday July 30th at 11 am since some players of the Ukraine team had problems with the Visa and did not arrive in time. “I want to thank the Dutch team for their understanding and cooperation”, commented Thomas Staudt, Jury President of the European Motoball Championship 2017 and vice-president of the FIM Europe Motoball Commission. “Since the match was moved we decided to reschedule the time of the match between Germany and Belarus to 17:30”. All photos © Ray 4th Game 15:00 - Russia – Belarus 5:0 Russia started the day with their first players’ selection and put Belarus under pressure from the beginning. The Belarus team, which is starting to integrate young players was good

The European Motoball games started in Cameret and Valreas, in France. In the first day, the Referee Meeting was held at 10:00 in Cameret. Pascale Reschko Jacquot, Chairwoman of FIM Europe Motoball Commission and André Cast (Clerk of the Course) welcomed the 6 participating Nations: Belarus, France, Germany, The Netherlands, Russia and Ukraine. André Cast made a detailed presentation of the rules which changed from last year. All photos © Ray 1st Game 15:00 - Russia – The Netherlands 11:0 Russia was showing its strength and the Netherlands tried to fight back. After the 1st Quarter the score was 2:0 and at the half time already 5:0. Finally the Russian Team scored 6 times more and won clearly. Russia did not play with their first selection to save some power for the following match against Germany. 2nd Game 17:00 - Germany – Russia 2:4 The participants of the Final 2016

The Circuito do Estoril in Portugal was the scene of the European Moto2 and European Talent Cup at Estoril, in Portugal. In Moto2™, Eric Granado (Promoracing, photo1) once again achieved a double, the second in a row and his fourth win of the season. The clear leader of the category took victory after pulling away with Ricky Cardús (Team Stylobike), Steven Odendaal (NTS Sportscode T Pro) and Lukas Tulovic (Forward Junior Team). Behind the leading riders, Héctor Garzó (Team Wimu CNS) was forced to fight back after starting from seventh place on the grid. Ricky Cardús (Team Stylobike) bore the weight of the race while poleman Tulovic gradually lost touch enabling Héctor Garzó (Team Wimu CNS) to pick him up with two laps remaining. Then Eric Granado (Promoracing) passed Ricky Cardús (Team Stylobike) in a surprise move on a corner to take his third victory of the season, with Steven

The games of the 31st edition of European Motoball Championship will be held  in France, at Camaret and Valreas and will start on July 27th, to continue until August 1st. All the games will be streamed live on www.promotoball.ru A video has been issued, for the promotion of the live-streaming. “Thousands fans, sixty players, six Countries, two stadiums and only one champion”, is the claim. The link of the video is as follows: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlreXAKax08

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