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The last round of FIM Europe Supermono Cup was held at Oschersleben. Josef Frauenschuh arrived as the leader of the general standings and he confirmed his good state of form in qualifying practices, even if the pole position went to Jerry van den Bunt, who however was absent in Grobnik and lost many points in the general classification. The first race started on wet/dry (mixed) track surface but many riders opted for wet tyres. After the race all wet tyres were almost destroyed but there were no serious crashes. After very emotional fight the winner was Jerry van den Bunt. In this race he showed that the classification of the European Supermono Cup 2018 was still open. Josef Frauenschuh was 5th and lost many points: his advantage on the second - Jurgen Pirstner - was now only 24 points. In race 2 Jerry van de Bunt was the leader from

In this special issue, the report and all the pictures of the FIM Europe Congress, held at Nantes (France), in which FIM Europe President Dr Wolfgang Srb was re-elected for the next 4 years. During the General Assembly, the new Management Council was elected, too. Furthermore, the contents of the Road Safety Conference and an article about the campain “No ride without training”, supported by MotoGP stars. It can be read for free at the following link: https://issuu.com/fimeurope/docs/fim_europe_mag_4-2018

In the weekend from Saturday 25th to Sunday 26th August, the follow­ing European races will be held: 25-26 August - EMX 250 and 400 at Sevlievo/Bulgaria 25-26 August - European Supermoto Cup at Oschersleben/Germany

The FIM Motocross World Championship was joined by the European Championship races of EMX125 presented by FMF Racing and EMX250 where Team VRT’s Tom Guyon and Honda RedMoto Assomotor’s Mathys Boisrame took the respective overall wins. Played out over 2 days the EMX racing started with Time Practice and Last Chance Races to narrow the fields down to 40 riders each. Following the Qualifying was the first points paying races on Saturday starting with first with EMX125 presented by FMF Racing Race 1 immediately by EMX250 Race 1. In EMX250 the race was first led by the round 1 winner in RedSand, Spain, BUD Racing Monster Energy’s Pierre Goupillon. Goupillon quickly lost the lead to Team DIGA-Procross’ Dylan Walsh and the lost another spot to Honda RedMoto Assomotor’s Mathys Boisrame. Walsh dealt with pressure from the red plate holder Boisrame on his Honda but the #172 fell on lap 2.

The European acceleration elites got together for the 33rd NitrOlympX at the Hockenheimring, in Germany, from 17 to 19 August. The “Ring” was transformed into a straightaway and became a runway for the fastest motorsport in the world: drag racing. The 2nd round of the European Dragracing Championship and the 3rd round of the European Super Street Bike Championship and Junior Drag Bike Cup were held. Top Fuel Bike - The winner was Greek Filippos Papafilippou (photo 1). Second position for Eric Richard (FRA) Super Twin Bike - The winner was Marcus Christiansen (DEN, photo 2) and second was Takeshi Shigematsu (JPN) Marcus run a new ET record 6.408. Pro Stock Bike - The winner was Alex Hope (GBR) second was Karl-Heinz Weikum (GER). Super Street Bike - The winner was Graham Balchin (GBR, photo 3) and second was Rick Stubbins (GBR). Junior Drag Bike Cup - The winner was Lorens

Leon Madsen won the third round of Tauron Speedway Euro Championship 2018, which was held at Daugavpils (Latvia) in front of around 6.000 spectators, in a sunny day. Thanks to a good result, Dane became the new leader of Individual Speedway European Championship. It was the very first heat, when fans, who gathered at the venue in Daugavpils, had reasons to get excited from. Andzejs Lebedevs - the local favourite, started the meeting with a win. Heat after heat, current Euro Champion got it slightly worse and did not get through to the final heat. Rivalry in Latvia started great for Madsen, who left Robert Lambert behind his back in his first start of the day. Dane presented some solid racing, which led him to gathering 16 points. After three series of starts, Madsen caught up Hampel in the overall classification and Pole's lack of presence in the final meant

In the weekend from Saturday 18th to Sunday 19th August, the follow­ing European races will be held: 18 August - Tauron Individual Speedway Euro Championship at Daugavpils/Latvia 18-19 August - EMX 125 and 250 at Frauenfeld-Gachnang/Switzerland 18-19 August - Dragbike European Championship and Junior Cup at Hockenheim-Nitrolympx/Germany

BELARUS Juniors 1-3 FRANCE Juniors France juniors played good game and were more composed team than their opponents. They scored three goals, conceded only one and won third place. Belarus played well, but were let down but their defense. GAME LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfV1NhKp1Og RUSSIA Juniors 5-1 GERMANY Juniors Russia scored their first goal in the first quarter, while Germany wasted 11 meters penalty. Later Russian juniors intensified the attacks and claimed their first European Juniors Motoball Championship title. GAME LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spyozQezbVM BELARUS 2-14 GERMANY Germany scored a nice goal in the first quarter, but made problems for themselves with getting yellow/red card for one of their players and green card for another one. Belarus used this situation well and scored equalizer. But Germans recovered well in the second quarter with two fast goals, and their goal-machine started the demolition - 14 goals from Die Mannschaft and 2 from Belarus was an

The Speedway U19 Individual European Championship was held at Varkaus, in Finland - 17 riders from 10 nations were on the starting list, and they all did their best to become the Champion. On a sunny and windy day on a hard racetrack Mads Hansen from Denmark was the fastest, ahead of Polish Szymon Szlauderback and of Latvian Olegs Mihailovs. These young riders from 10 different Countries showed that Speedway is at a high level in Europe. Full results on FIM Europe website: http://www.fim-europe.eu/events/613

The third round of class SM Junior of the European Supermoto 2018 Championship was held this weekend in Lithania on "Baciunas" Karting track in Sauliai. Even if before the event the sun was hot, with more than 30°C, practices and races of SM Junior class saw an unexpected turn of the weather, with only 19 degrees, clouds and rain without stop. It was Estonian rider Aksel Partelpoes on his Husqvarna to overcome these conditions imposing himself as the man to beat in all the outings on the track – he scored the best lap in free and timed practices, thus earning the pole-position for the races. He was closely followed by Russian Ivan Mosin (TM) and Jan Ulman from Czech Republic on his Kawasaki. The first ten laps race was won in high class by Aksel, who did enough to break in front of the pack in the early laps