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From the left, David Luongo, Youthstream Director, the new European Champions Jorge Prado Garcia (EMX125), Emil Weckman (EMX150), Nick Kouwenberg (EMX250) and Dr Wolfgang Srb, FIM Europe President - Photo ©Youthstream.   ASSEN (The Netherlands), 30 August 2015 – The final rounds of the world’s number one amateur motocross series, the European Championships EMX250 and EMX125, took place amidst the epicness of the MXGP of The Netherlands this weekend. Kemea Yamaha Yamalube’s Damon Graulus and Sahkar KTM Racing’s Jago Geerts won the battle on the amazing circuit, which was remarkably built in five days on the infield of the iconic Dutch TT circuit in Assen but it was J-Tech Honda’s Nick Kouwenberg and KTM Factory Juniors Jorge Prado who won the war with their clinching of the gold plates. “It was a most impressive weekend on the unique and outstanding circuit of Assen”, stated Dr Wolfgang Srb, FIM Europe President. “The track was

FIM Europe President, Dr Wolfgang Srb, on the podium of the EMX 150  - Photo © Youthstream. ASSEN (The Netherlands), 30 August 2015 - After a championship fight that went down to the last race, Emil Weckman emerged triumphant with two dominant rides that saw him take the championship title today in Assen. The young Finn faced a season-long tough battle with British rider Jack Bintcliffe, with the pair only separated by two points going into the final round in the Netherlands. Unfortunately for the Brit two bad starts left him with too much work to do on the man-made sand track at the Assen TT circuit to catch Weckman; however, Bintcliffe’s impressive rides did see him close down a ten second deficit in the first moto to 0.894 seconds within three laps and come from outside the top ten at the start to finish within fifteen seconds of winner Weckman.

From the left, John van den Berk, MX Academy trainer, Martin van Genderen, MX Academy Coordinator and trainer, Giuseppe Luongo, president of Youthstream, Dr Wolfgang Srb, FIM Europe President, and Martin de Graaff, FIM Europe 1st Deputy President and MX Academy Project leader - Photo © Youthstream. Today in Assen, the Netherlands, after the qualifying races of the World MXGP and MX2, an important event of MX Academy was held: the young riders who attended the Academy received their first certificates. The event was accompanied by a press conference, to which took part Dr Wolfgang Srb, FIM Europe President, Martin de Graaff, FIM Europe 1st Deputy President, Giuseppe Luongo, President of Youthstream, Martin van Gendere, MX Academy Coordinator and trainer, and John van den Berk, MX Academy trainer.They welcome everybody and then said how glad they were to be there giving the certificates to kids for the first time. “We are very happy about what this fantastic

Today in Assen (Netherlands), Emil Weckman increased his championship lead from Jack Bintcliffe with a race one win, ahead of tomorrow’s final race of the season. The start of the race saw home-hero Mack Bouwense take the holeshot with Weckman just behind into the first corner, while Bintcliffe struggled to get off the line and found himself caught in the pack before losing time running wide in the second corner. At the end of the first lap Weckman had moved himself into the lead and remained there until the end, troubled only on the last lap by a recovering Bintcliffe, who managed to reduce a ten second deficit to only 0.894 seconds in the last three laps.Alexis Collignon, Tim Edberg and David Robson also made strong starts on the man-made sand track. Although Collignon looked to be closing on Weckman in the first half of the race, none of the

The circuit of Silkeborg, in Denmark, hosted the final of the Individual Speedway Under 21 European Championship. Despite very hard track circumstances after some rainy days, the club worked hard to produce a safe meeting. As the race progressed, the track conditions improved and the spectators who came to Silkeborg stadium were able to see good show, with the best young Speedway riders in Europe. The Under 21 European Champion of 2015 is Anders Thomsen from Denmark. The second place went to Nikolaj Busk Jakobsen from Denmark, too, while the third place went to Polish rider Bartosz Smektala.

Despite best efforts made by FIM Europe and for reasons outside of its control, it is with great regret that the event in Vellahn (Germany)  scheduled on 17th October 2015  as fourth and last round of the European Enduro Extreme Cup, has been cancelled.   The updated calendar of the season:

The FIM Europe Track Racing Commission took the following decision:on 28th June 2015, during the speedway match of Team Championship of Poland (Extraleague) anti-doping control was carried out and the tested rider was Oleksandr Loktaev (FMU). The PZM was informed by the Polish Commission Against Doping in Sport (PANDA) about a report from the WADA accredited laboratory in Warsaw about the presence of AAF – Adverse Analytical Finding in a urine sample collected from Oleksandr Lokataev.   On 18th  August 2015 PZM was informed that the rider did not ask for the analysis of his B sample which means the confirmation of the results of “A” sample.  On the basis of FIM Anti-doping Rules art. 9 and 11.3 the results of European Pairs Speedway Championship - SF in Gustrow on 4th July 2015 will be changed - the points of Oleksandr Loktaev are substracted from the team result: 1. DSMB -

The track of Oschersleben (Germany) hosted last weekend the third of four rounds of the European Supermono Cup.The event was settled with FIM Endurance and Sidecar World Championships. During the whole weekend it was very nice weather without clouds and temperature between 25 and 29 degrees.The Supermono Cup offered two races, as usual, and the winner of both was Austrian rider Lukas Wimmer. In race 1 he finished before Dutch Jerry van de Bunt and Austrian Josef Frauenschuh.Race 2 was redflagged after lap 1 due to crash of Jerry van de Bunt and Manni Kehrmann, both transported to hospital. Manni Kehrmann broke his collarbone and some ribs, Jerry van de Bunt pinched his wrist and ankle. The race was restarted for 10 laps and the winner was once again Lukas Wimmer, this time in front of Austrian Josef Frauenschuh and German Christian Schmeink. In this round Lukas Wimmer continued his winning series

Italian rider Gianluca Tournour won today the Trial European title in the main class - Photo by Mario Candellone Today in Grimmialp, Switzerland, the Italian rider Gianluca Tournour (Gas Gas) conquered the European title. Two more titles were assigned: to French Pierre Sauvage (Sherco) in the Junior Cup class and to Vladimir Kothay (Ossa) from Slovakia, in the Over 40 Cup class. Yesterday Theresa Baeuml (Ossa) and Toby Martyn (Beta) had already won the title of European champions after winning respectively the last round of the FIM Europe Trial Women and Youth championship. In the top class all the eyes were focused on the duel between the two riders who shared the first position in the championship: Tournour and Francesc Moret (Vertigo). The former, leader from the beginning of this 2015 series gave proof not to suffer the pressure of his rival and faced this last competition very concentrated and determined

Stefan Mueller, world champion of Sidecarcross in 1980, died today in Hertingen (Germany) during the practice session of the European Sidecar Final Stefan Mueller died today in an accident during the practice session of the European Sidecar Championship in Hertingen (Germany). “Karl Keil and his passenger Stefan Mueller were in the second lap of practice, when Mueller fall on the track and he was hit by a French team, which was following”, said Imanuel Schramm, who was riding behind the two sidecars. The helicopter arrived quickly  but there was no chance for Mueller, who died on the track. Stefan Mueller was 55. The organizers have cancelled the event. FIM Europe expresses sincere condolences to the family and to all his relatives and friends.