FIM Europe News

The first round of the European Individual Speedway Under 21 Championship scheduled on May 25th in Debrecen (Hungary) was cancelled because of weather conditions. The organisers had done a great job to set the track, but the Jury decided to stop the race after heat 3 because of heavy rain and thunderstorms (practice had been held regularly and with fine weather conditions). The event was cancelled because the weather forecast predicted heavier rain for the next day. A new date for the event will be fixed. At the moment the next event remains in Macon (France) on June 26th.

The last weekend saw the opening round of the FIM-Europe Drag Bike Championship at Santa Pod Raceway, England. FIM-Europe Top Fuel Bike class attracted eight entries, with multi-time series champion Ian King qualifying in the number one spot and the quickest run of the event with a 5.830s/232.52 mph run, but the home rider lost out to Filippos Papafilippou at the semi final stage. The final proved to be a Sweden vs Greece affair, with Rikard Gustafsson tak­ing the win when Papafilippou stopped for brief fire shortly after leaving the startline. Gustafsson (in the photo by Rose Hughes) ended up idling to a 21 second clocking from his Suzuki Funnybike. The final of FIM-Europe Super Twin ended up as an all-Dutch affair, with low-qualifier Martijn de Haas (in the photo by Rose Hughes) defeating fellow countryman Job Heezen with a 6.6056s/212.81 mph to a 7.3536s/205.24 mph decision. Defending FIM-Europe Pro

Today the fourth round of the European Junior Cup was held in Donington (England), together with the World Superbike and Supersport championships, as usual. The Spanish rider Javier Orellana has extended his championship lead in the Pata European Junior Cup after storming to his 3rd win of the year in today’s 10 lap race.Now 27 points clear in the overall standings he came home 3 seconds ahead of French Guillaume Raymond who claimed his first podium finish of the year in 2nd. Italian Paolo Grassia completed the podium. British Sam Wilford claimed a season best 5th.Championship contender Emanuele Pusceddu, who won in Imola (Italy), was involved in a multi-bike crash in the opening lap. The Italian will look to regroup in Portimao in a fortnight.Avalon Biddle, from New Zealand, is the winner in the Women European Cup, and now she has the same amount of points in the general standing as

The fourth round of the European Motocross 125 and 250cc  Championship was held this weekend in Matterley Basin (England). In EMX 125, in Race 1 (in the photo a moment of the start), French rider Maxime Renaux won in front of British Conrad Mewse, while Miro Sihvonen from Finland managed to catch the podium. In Race 2, it was Josiah Natzke, from New Zealand, to win with a good margin on the leader of Race 1, Maxime Renaux, who is however the winner of the overall. Third position for Spanish Ruben Fernandez Garcia. With a third position in the overall, Spanish Jorge Prado Garcia on KTM maintains the leadership of the championship after the first four rounds. In EMX 250, Darian Sanayei, from USA, won Race 1 in front of Adam Ste­­rry and Steven Clarke, both from Great Britain. In Race 2 Damon Graulus from Belgium won, finishing before French Maxime Desprey and British Adam

The second round of the Honda 150 European Championship was held this weekend in Matterley Basin (England).Young Brit Jack Bintcliffe put in a dominating performance at his home event to win the second race of the weekend with a time gap of sixteen seconds over Emil Weckman, who, with his race win yesterday, moves into the championship lead. The holeshot was taken once again by Mack Bouwense who started strongly but found himself slipping back through the pack as the race progressed. With his home fans cheering him on, Bintcliffe took the lead after the first couple of corners, which allowed him to make his getaway. Close on his tail for a time was fellow Brit, and wildcard rider for this event, Jake Parker who rode strongly all race until an incident caused him to lose time in the closing laps.Although Bintcliffe and Weckman were able to pull out a large gap

The Spanish rider Mika Perez (in the photo) took the pole position at Donington Park ahead of Pata European Junior Cup’s fourth race of the season, scheduled for tomorrow at 11am local time (GMT+1). Pole-sitter for the second time this year, the RBC Team rider was the only EJC entry to break the 1’40s barrier as he lapped in 1’39.952 to edge out Emanuele Pusceddu (SK & Itaba Moto) and Guillaume Raymond (Activbike), who will join him on the front row of the grid. Series leader Javier Orellana (Europ Foods) will start the race from fourth place, with the top-12 covered by 0.819s after one of the closest ever qualifying sessions for the category.

  In the Honda 150 European Championship, Emil Weckman kept his cool under extreme pressure from those behind to take the race one victory in Matterley Basin, his second race win of the year, and moves himself up into the championship lead ahead of tomorrow’s race.All eyes were on Jack Bintcliffe, the highest placed Brit in the championship, at the start but it was Mack Bouwense who took the holeshot. However, it was not long before Weckman felt the confidence to jump big and propel himself into the lead, closely followed by Henry Vesilind and Slade Tressler. After a bad start, which left him last, Jack Bintcliffe pushed hard and fought through to take eighth place at the chequered flag.As the race unfolded, all eyes turned to Yago Martinez who was chasing down the top three and was the first CRF150R rider to make the big double jump at the finish

Today in the Università degli Studi di Roma Foro Italico, the sole State Sport University in Italy, about one hundred students attended a lesson about "The governance of FIM Europe" held by FIM Europe Secretary General Mr Alessandro Sambuco, who is also an Assistant Professor of this University. Alessandro Sambuco explained to the young audience the world of FIM Europe, which is exemplifying of other Federations and of the Sporting Governance in general.  In particular, the lesson dealt with the principles at the basis of "good governance", from transparency to responsibility, from the participation and involvement of members and stakeholders, to integrity and ethic behaviour. The International Sports Organization was described, too. The FIM Europe President Dr Wolfgang Srb was present, too, and intervened with a speech to the students, explaining, in particular the vision and the mission of FIM Europe. Dr Srb talked about the importance of fairness in

The second round of European Baja Championship was held last weekend from Rechnitz (Austria) to Sárvár (Hungary). For the first leg the weather was mostly sunny, with 18-20°C.It was a long day with two long special stages and two shorter stages, quite easy but dusty.There were many time penalties during the day for different reasons.In Bike class the winner was Rudolf Lhotsky from Czech Republic; in Quad Pawel Otwinowski from Poland won the Overall and the Q1, while Maciej Albinowski, from Poland, too, won the Q2. The Italian rider Giammarco Fossa is the winner in UTV category. Hungarian Matyas Somfai won the Open class. For the second leg, nice weather and very good special stages together with a local rally. No accidents and no penalties. There were in total 8 special stages, all on gravel today.In Bike class Rudolf Lhotsky from Czech Republic confirmed his first place and is the

Starting grid of Adria. From the left Franco Moro, who realized the Sherco motorcycles for the Championship, the rider Oliver Konig, Mr Luigi Favarato, Mr Martin Hejduck and Mr Álmos Györffy of Commission Road Racing of FIM Europe The European Stock 250 4 Strokes Championship took its start in Adria (Italy), last weekend. Fine weather and over 2500 spectators for the Alpe Adria Series, which hosted the Continental event, aimed to give young riders a stepping stone to start racing in an international contest with affordable costs."The first round of the European Stock 250 4 Strokes in Adria was interesting under many aspects", comments Luigi Favarato, President of Alpe Adria Motorcycle Union. "First of all, we have to remark the competiveness of the motorcycles; in fact, the two races were held in the context of the Moto3 Alpe Adria with a unique starting grid and separate standings, and some riders of