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Edgar Pons, poleman in Moto2 After yesterday's free practice, the real action of European Moto2 and Superbike Championships in Barcelona (Spain) has begun today at 9am. The weather gave little rest today with a pressing heat during almost the entire day. In Moto2 European Championship, the two riders of Yellow Pages HP 40 Junior Team were the main protagonists of the day. Since the first session no one has been able to overshadow Edgar Pons (SPA-Kalex), who has taken advantage of the cool morning to mark his best lap, stopping the clock at 1 minute, 46 seconds and 163 thousandths. Same strategy seems to have followed his teammate, Luca Marini (ITA-Kalex), who set the second fastest time, six tenths behind the poleman. So Marini repeteated the second grid position, after Algarve. Xavi Vierge (SPA-Tech 3) was third fastest of the day. Behind him, Steven Odendaal (RSA-AGR Team), Tetsuta Nagashima (JPN-Kalex)

PATA European Junior Cup champion elect Javier Orellana will start what could be a title win European Junior Cup race tomorrow from pole position after snatching the top spot in the closing stages of final qualifying from Italian riders Matteo Ciprietti  and Emanuele Pusceddu, who were 2nd and 3rd respectively, the trio making up the front row of the grid. Giuseppe de Gruttola (SK & Itaba Moto) will head row number 2 where he will be joined by Guillaume Raymond and Mika Perez.British Sam Wilford was looking more than capable of snatching a place on row 2 until he crashed on his final lap. He will head row 3, starting 7th on the grid.The youngest rider in the field Troy Bezuidenhout also crashed early in the session after elevating himself into the top 12, he will start from 15th after being unable to make it back onto the track despite

  Federico Caricasulo (Pata Honda Junior Team) could hardly contain his delight at taking victory in today’s 13 lap FIM Europe Superstock 600cc race in front of his home fans at the Misano World Circuit Marco Simoncelli after timing his move for the lead almost perfectly on the penultimate lap. As ever the STK600 race was epic with in the early stages a group of ten swapping places at almost every turn. With 5 laps to go the leading group was now only 5 and headed by Michael Ruben Rinaldi (San Carlo Team Italia) who had to settle for 4th at the flag after being overtaken on the final two laps firstly by Caricasulo before Niki Tuuli (Kallio Racing) and Toprak Razgatliogliu (Kawasaki Puccetti Racing) who gave everything on the final lap to take the win, found their way past, taking 2nd and 3rd respectively after some incredible racing. For

From the left: Karol Lejman and Jan Konikiewicz from One Sport, Dr Wolfgang Srb, FIM Europe President, Armando Castagna, FIM CCP Director, and Piotr Szymański, FIM Europe Track Racing Commission Chairman Today, on the occasion of the first round of the Individual Speedway European Championship (SEC) in Torun (Poland), the marketing contract between FIM Europe and One Sport has been signed and extended for a period of ten more years. «I am very happy that we continue the partnership with One Sport», stated Dr Wolfgang Srb, FIM Europe President. «They have done an excellent job so far and I trust that they will work very hard to promote Speedway in the years to come. I also like to point out the presence of Armando Castagna, showing the new way of close cooperation of FIM Europe with FIM. FIM will work with One Sport on the promotion of the young riders (Individual Speedway

  The new issue of FIM Europe MAG is online and can be downloaded here. Among the articles, the news on the activity of FIM Europe, from the Strategic Plan Working Group to the to the meeting with the students in the University Foro Italico of Rome, from the spectacular European Motoball Championship to an interesting interview about the next Workshop on Leadership organised by FIM Europe. Last but not least, we discover Costa Rica through a motorcycle journey.  

There is only one day to the inauguration of Speedway European Championship. The line – up of the championship is very strong, which makes it very difficult to point one favorite for the gold medal. The journalist of Radio Zet and privately an enthusiast of speedway, Michał Korościel has attempted about the opinion on this year’s series of SEC. "I will not be original if I write that this year's European Championship is going to be extremely exciting. The list of participants, although very different in comparison to Grand Prix, is not worse. My favorite to win in this year's SEC series is Nicki Pedersen. The Danish star has won 3 titles in the Individual World Championship, but he has never been European Champion and he hopes to put this missing trophy on his shelf later this year."Nicki is a guy who, regardless a rank of an event, always wants

Can Oncu (65) and his brother Deniz, leaders of the SM85 class The all asphalt SuperMoto circuit of Pleven in Bulgaria hosted the second round of the European SuperMoto Championship for the classes SM85 and S3. As usual the track offered perfect conditions for racing and the standard extreme temperatures of 40°C.The SM85 class this season is dominated by the Turkish twins Deniz and Can Oncu who proved to be the top class SuperMoto riders. Their podium in Pleven was not a surprise at all, however the two brothers repeated the Arad scenario from Round 1 and shared one win and one second place each in both heats.Deniz Oncu won the second heat ahead of his brother Can Oncu. The fight for third position as usual was until the last lap: this time local rider Dimitar Petrov struggled in the battle with the Turkish Bahattin Sofuoglu and following a crash

The European Supermoto S2 Championship has been updated and the event scheduled on July 12th originally set to take place in La Molina, Catalunya will be held in Villena, Spain. The updated calendar is the following:

North Dutch town of Loppersum hosted the Semi Final of Sidecar European Championship. Around 2.200 spectators watched in windy and rainy weather very close heats for 6 places and 2 reserve posts. On the final rostrum, Dennis Noordman / Patrick Kremer KNMV, who won ahead of Karl Keil / Stefan Müller DMSB and Imanuel Schramm / Hermann Bacher FMS. Full recognition to 62 year old Karl Keil and his passenger, who qualified in second position for the Final event, which will be held in Hertingen, Germany on August 22. Full results on FIM Europe website: www.fim-europe.eu/events/74

The start of EMX300 - Photo ©Youthstream It was a diverse weekend for round five of the EMX125 and round three of the EMX300 European Championships with the two day event hosting one race on a dry, hard and slick surface and the second in some of the worst mud the championship has ever seen. Yesterday, the sun-baked circuit of Maggiora was dominated by KTM Factory Juniors Josiah Natzke who claimed his fourth consecutive EMX125 race win, while Swiss rider Killian Auberson took his first ever win in the EMX300. EMX300With the weather taking a turn for the worst today, the EMX300 race was cut short due to torrential rain flooding the circuit. Italian fans remained happy with one of their locals, Manuel Beconcini, claiming the race win and another Italian, Marco Maddii, stealing the overall. Meanwhile in the EMX125 it was Kemea Yamaha Yamalube’s Maxime Renaux who took his