FIM Europe News

FIM Europe website has now a new Public Affairs section dedicated the lastest information on European regulation on Road Safety and other issues related to motorcycling. The page has been now updated with a series of case studies on motorcycling to be downloaded: - Study case made by Swedish Transport Administration: "Increased safety for motorcycle and moped riders." Click here - Study case made by Ministère de l'Ecologie, du Developpement durable et de l'Energie: "Enquete de 2012 sur l'utilisation des deux - roues motorisés Public Affair. Click here - Study case made by CSIAM (Chambre Syndacale Internationale de L'Automobile et du Motocycle ): "Changeons de regard sur le motards. L'image des utilisateurs de 2/3 des roues motorisés" Public Affair. Click here - Study case made by GEMA Prévention Assureurs Mutualistes: " Portrait du conducteur de 2 roues d'aujourd'hui". Click here More updates on the Public Affairs page coming soon!!

Amazing European Supercross Championship edition. The stages around the EICMA MotoLive track were full of people who attended to the races of the unique round which has assigned the titles to the 2013 European champions. The organization has signed another perfect edition of the SX Series Championship which has been rich of emotions for the several fights during the competions.. SX1 – Zack Osborne (Honda RedMoto) has been the dominator of the day. The fastest and the skilled rider of this racing day. He won both Finals with a large gap in front of all the other riders. Second is Angelo Pellegrini (Honda Racing World Motocross) and third PJ Larsen (Honda MBTeam). SX2 – European Champion is Michele Cervellin (Honda Racing Technology) in front the International SX Champion Killian Auberson (KTM). Third place for Jeremy Chaveau. SX125 – Brian Hsu won the European title SX125. Second the Italian rider Filippo

The Italian Maurizio Micheluz became three times European Enduro Champion: on the last day of the final in Ourem / Portugal he achieved the triple. He not only won the E1-class and the overall title, but was in the three days with the Italian Trophy also European team-champion! Together with Andrea Beconi, Mirko Gritti and the E3-European Champion Gianluca Martini, they won ahead of Britain and France. Tom Sagar needs no win in the E2-class too: He made the third place in the race behind his British countryman Jamie Lewis and the French Romain Dumontier. So he took the title in front of Italian Andrea Beconi. Even Jessica Jönsson from Sweden did not win the final cross: with the second place behind her rival, the Finn Sanna Karkkainen, she took the title in the women’s class. The same with the British Junior Jack Rowland in the small capacity class: he

Last rounds of the FIM European Supersport 600 and Junior Cup was settled in Jerez Spain in good weather with no problems. Both classes have evolved into a good sporting success and there was in both classes many battles for position. In the Superstock class, victory of British Kyle Smith (Honda) in front of Italian Franco Morbidelli (Kawasaki) and Italian Alessandro Nocco (Kawasaki). Thanks to the second position Franco Morbidelli became the new 2013 European Champion. In the European Junior Cup, victory of New Zealand rider Jake Lewis in front of Spanish Augusto Fernandez and British Josh Harland. The winner of the 2013 Euopean Junior Cup is Jake Lewis. Both classes have evolved a lot in the right direction, so it will be interesting to follow developments next year. (FIM Europe Press Release 158/2013)

Three new Enduro Champions were crowned on the second day of the Enduro European Championship finals in Ourem / Portugal. The track was made even more difficult by the nightly rains, so same passages has to been bypassed again. But the drivers where happy, that the distance of four had been shortened to the laps at least. In the Juniors-E2/E3-class the local hero Diego Ventura won the championship title with a second place behind the Swedish rider Tommy Sjoström. After Ventura already destroyed a radiator on the stage, his team slowed him down and let him drive safely. Not so safely continued the Italian Gianluca Martini: nevertheles, the Beta-Pilot finished the day in second place behind his countryman Mirko Gritti. This was not only the result in the E3-class, which made Martini an European Champion, it was also the result in the “Overall”! Both riders had led the field through

For the first time in this year, a local rider wins the overall-classification at the European Enduro Championship. Luis Oliveira from Portugal won in front of his countryman Diego Ventura and the English rider Tom Sagar. Fourth became Italian rider Gianluca Martini in front of his countryman Maurizio Micheluz, the leading man in the championship. Junior Ventura won also his class and is on the way to the title. Same with Tom Sagar in the E2-class, who made a bigger gap in the championship. Only winner Oliveira is in the class and in the overall-championship behind Micheluz and cannot become champion by himself – only if Micheluz will make a serious mistake. Veteran Werner Müller from Austria won again his class and is able to get his 7th (!) European-Title with only a third place in the next day. In the Juniors-class up to 20 years it could happen that

The PATA European Junior Cup, dedicated to young riders from 14 to 19 riders on Honda CBR 500 R bikes, will be repeated also next year again in 8 round to be held in conjunction with European events of the Superbike World Championship. This year edition had moments of high interest and the next Sunday on the Spanish track of Jerez will be assigned the 2013 title, with three riders Jake Lewis, Robin Anne e Augusto Fernandez divided by only 5 points. FIM Europe President, Vincenzo Mazzi, declared: “It is good news that the PATA European Junior Cup is confirmed also for 2014, after the success of this year. This is the kind of events that help to find and prepare the champions of tomorrow.” (FIM Europe Press Release 155/2013)

The European-Enduro-Championship (EEC) is coming to the final competition: all the titles will be assigned in Ourem-Fatima (Portugal) from the 18th to the 20th of October. Two days the riders will do a classic enduro with 12 tests and 220 km stage each day. On third day they will have final-cross-race. More informations and live-timings can be found on Championship website www.european-enduro-championship.com from the description of the track up to the entry form. (FIM Europe Press Release 154/2013)

The fourth and last round of the Enduro European Championship will be held from the 18th to the 20th of October 2013 in Ourem Fatima (Portugal). The registered riders can be viewed in the following link.   (FIM Europe Press Release 153/2013)

Yesterday, the 13th of October, in the track of Cingoli (Italia) was a fatal accident in which a young British quad rider, Conner Smith, representing Team GB (ACU) in the QuadCross of European Nations, died in the medical center at the track before he could be air-lifted to hospital. All marshals, Red Cross people. doctors worked professionally, and very fast. The event was abandoned after this tragedy which happened in the first race, and therefore there are no results for the QuadCross of European Nations or the SidecarCross of Eurpean Nations. FIM Europe express deepest sympathy to the rider's family and friends and to the ACU.   (FIM Europe Press Release 152/2013)