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 Photo: Phototrial.it In the weekend from Thursday 11th to Sunday 14th August, the following European races will be held: 11-14 August - European Bajas at Veszprém/Hungary12-14 August - Superstreet Bike Cup at Kunmadaras/Hungary13 August - European Pairs Speedway Championship at Rīga/Latvia13-14 August - Trial European Championship, Women, Youth, Over 40 & Junior Cup at Großheubach/Germany13-14 August - European Open 65cc Motocross Cup at Orlyonok/Russia  

Photos: @Youthstream That’s a wrap! The final rounds of the European Championships EMX125 presented by FMF Racing and EMX250 were wrapped up yesterday in Frauenfeld-Gachnang, Switzerland, where our future stars were faced with a rutty and rugged man-made track, that had a good vibe about it which could be attributed to the noise and support coming from the nearly sold out grand stands that surround venue. The newly crowned EMX125 presented by FMF Racing champion, Sahkar KTM’s Jago Geerts, rounded out the season the best way he knows how, with two race wins while Bud Racing Monster Energy Kawasaki’s Darian Sanayei also did the double for his second overall win of the season. EMX250The track here in Frauenfeld-Gachnang wasn’t the most intimidating track on the calendar, although for the riders that aren’t fans of ruts and square edge bumps, it would have been pretty daunting. As a man-made track, built

Riders from eight nations were represented at this the third round of the FIM Europe Vintage Road Race Championship. The World Superbike track of Donington Park was the UK venue for the event and track was in superb shape for racing.  The sunny weather of the first day continued and conditions were perfect for second set of European races.  The event was well organised by the Classic Racing Motorcycle Club with the added attraction of demonstration laps by former Grand Prix stars Steve Baker, Jim Redman, Sammy Miller and Chas Mortimer. In the Vintage Road Racing European Championship races double victories were achieved by Richard Molnar on his Molnar Manx, George Hogton-Rusling on his Hercberg Suzuki and Vince Worthington and Paul Thomas in the Sidecar class.In the photo, the Sidecar crew of Ron Blake

Spanish Miquel Gelabert (Sherco, photo 1) sees the 2016 European title almost in his pocket after having topped the podium in the fifth round of the European Trial Championship, held today at Sokolov, in Czech Republic. Gelabert did not accept to be defeated by one single point the day before and had a very determined, concentrated start. None kept his pace: only 6 points lost in the first loop and even better in the second loop, with 4 points. On the fifteen sections featured in each loop it was an extraordinary result. The very dry terrain facilitated Spanish riders, more accustomed to deal with that sort of soils. Indeed in the second place, completely recovered after the accident happened inspecting the sections at the eve of the previous racing weekend in late May, Francisc Moret (Vertigo) gave his best scoring 10 and 7 points, so as to finish in a

The two Semi Finals and the Final of the European 85cc Youth Speedway Cup were held at Vissenbjerg, in Denmark.The races were run on a wet track after the rain of the morning but thanks to the excellent work of the Vissenbjerg Motor Club’s staff the event was successful, with 36 riders at the start. The eight best riders (from Denmark, Sweden, Germany and Finland) qualified to the Final. After 20 heats the winner was was Benjamin Basso in front of Esben Hjerrild and Jonas Knudsen, all from Denmark.

Emil Weckman rode to another race win in what was a challenging second moto for the CRF150R riders, taking the top honours in both races at the Switzerland GP in Frauenfeld. After losing out on the holeshot to Estonia’s Henry Vesilind, Weckman quickly made his way through to take the lead on the first lap. Following closely and hoping to challenge for the top positions were Leopold Ambjornson, Lenaic Pilorget, Andrea Bonifacio and Yago Martinez.Weckman started to pull away from the rest of the field, but during the early stages of the moto the chain came off after over-jumping the triple causing the young Finn to stop. After fixing his bike Weckman found himself in fourth with the top three riders still in his sights.After riding hard to catch them, Weckman was able to use the remaining laps to find his way through to regain the lead of the race

 The second day of ITP EMX Quad was held today at Kivioli, in Estonia.  The track was still in good conditions notwithstanding the rain of the night. During the day it rained again from time to time. Race1 started under the rain. It was a difficult race, in which the home rider Kevin Saar was the winner of the holeshot. In lap 2 already Mike van Grinsven took the leading position, in front of Kevin Saar, Edgars Mengelis and the second Estonian rider, Martin Filatov.  At the start a crash among 3 riders happened, which involved Adrian Mangieu, Dniil Vlasov and Tuomas Kuivamäki. Mangieu was able to continue, but for the other two riders race 1 was over. Mangieu however started again only after a while and finished only in 18th place. The top 5 maintained the same position until the last lap, when the leader van Grinsven suddenly stopped

Above, from the left: Roy Øwre, Martin de Graaff, Emilie Westbye (head of NMF Motorcycling) and Dr Wolfgang Srb, FIM Europe President.On Friday 5th and Saturday 6th August the Norwegian Motorcycle Federation celebrated its centenary in Oslo.   The prestigious City Hall in Oslo, home of the Nobel Awards ceremony, hosted the official celebration in presence of the people who participated in the recent history of the NMF, the representatives of the international and continental motorcycling and nearby Federations. In fact, to celebrate the event together with the President of the FMN Roy Øwre and the Secretary General Roy Wetterstad there were the former Presidents NMF Svendsrud Tore, Tore Kittelsen, Per Madsen, Terje Rønning and Lene Fevang, the former FIM President Jos Vassen, the FIM Representative Jos Driessen, the FIM Europe Europe Dr Wolfgang Srb with the 1st Deputy President Martin de Graaff, the Vice-President Juhani Halme and the Secretary General Alessandro

The city of Daugavpils, in Latvia, hosted the Individual Speedway Euro Championship, with 18 riders at the start in front of 6.000 spectators. Despite the threat of heavy rain the meeting was completed with only a small amount of rain, with good luck as heavy rain fell immediately after the last heat.The races were of an excellent standard, with several overtakings in almost every heat.The local supporters were kept happy with some good displays by the Latvian riders, Maksims Bogdanovs reaching the final as a wild card. His luck ran out as he crashed in the first staging of the final, and was disqualified. Grigorij Laguta made the most of the re-run to pass Joonas Kylmakorpi and take the win in front of Joonas Kylmäkorpi and Emil Sayfutdinov.   In the photo on the top, Laguta and Kylmäkorpi and, above, the podium The standings at the half way point are very

Photos: @Phototrial.it British Iwan Roberts (Beta, photo1) managed to beat Spanish Miquel Gelabert (Sherco) by one single point in the fourth round of the 2016 European Trial Championship, held in Sokolov, Czech Republic. Both started very well and got a smooth lead on all the others after the first lap, in which Roberts scored 5 marks against the still good 7 points of Gelabert. In the 15 sections to repeat twice, the best ones behind them were two riders with 14 penalties:  British Toby Martyn (Beta) and Norwegian Ib Vegard Andersen (Beta). Only eighth place for the other favorite, runner-up in the overall standings, Dan Peace (Gas Gas) with 20 points. In the second loop Gelabert tried to recover his 2 points of distance from the top, which led him to partial success, scoring one point less than leader Roberts who kept the first place and gained his first victory