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SSP 300 Women's European Championship: Sowa makes the double at Grobnik A month after the round in the Czech Republic, the SSP 300 Women's European Championship got back on track for another exciting race weekend. The fourth round of the season took place at Automotodrom Grobnik, Croatia, in a weekend full of action and challenges. Race 1 In very high temperatures, Patrycja Sowa had a great start from P3 taking the lead, but Natalia Resel Rivera and pole-women Josephine Bruno wasted no time in fighting back. After six laps of fight and overtaking, a technical problem forced Bruno to retire. The Spanish-Polish battle continued, but it was Sowa who won ahead of Rivera. Third position for Arianna Barale at the end of an intense fight with Denise Dal Zotto and Beatrice Barbera. Race 2 Once more, Sowa made a lightning start moving to the front and taking the lead. Again

Supersport 300, Supersport 600 and Superstock 1000 Cup: Grobnik hosted the fourth round Weekend full of action at Automotodrom Grobnik, which also hosted the fourth round of the Supersport 300, Supersport 600 and Superstock 1000 Cup in extremely hot weather conditions. Supersport 300 and Supersport 600 Cup Czech rider Daniel Turecek ruled both races of the Supersport 300. In Race 1 he won ahead of the Turkish Mert Konuk and Hungarian Lukacs, while in Race 2 Patricia Sowa took P3 at the end of an amazing weekend in the SSP 300 Women's European Championship. Serbian rider Strahinja Kovacevic won the Supersport 600. Superstock 1000 Cup Raced together with the Alpe Adria International Motorcycle Championship, it saw the double success of Slovenian rider Marko Jerman. In Race 1 he won ahead of the Austrian Max Melzer and the young Hungarian rider Szamado Mate, who at the beginning of the season jumped

European Handy Bridgestone Cup: the show goes on in Rjeka The Automotodrom Grobnik welcomed the second round of the European Handy Bridgestone Cup. Race 1 Strong domination of the Czech rider Martin Horky (Yamaha R1) followed by Emiliano Malagoli (BMW S1000RR) and Lorenzo Picasso, who raced this round with the second bike of Malagoli. A great gesture of fair play. In fact, during the practice, Picasso had a bad crash with significant damage to the bike. The 600 class saw the win of Austrian Lorenz Jacob (Yamaha R6 - Austria) ahead of Italian rider Remo Marinato (Yamaha R6). In the Lesser Impaired category Massimo Bacci won the 1000 class and Antonio Montoya the 600 class. Race 2 A very hot Sunday saw the double win of Horky at the end of a lonely race. Second position for Lorenzo Picasso ahead of Emiliano Malagoli. At the end of this race, the

Dragbike European Championship: third round in Sweden Two months after the last round, the Dragbike European Championship was back to the action at Tierp Arena, Sweden, for the third round of this 2024 season. It was a successful event with good numbers of entrants, equally divided by Scandinavians and Europeans. Once more, the weekend had competitive racing and a very close fight. The runs in the finals have been decided with only 0’’047 seconds difference in TopFuelBike and only 0’’002 seconds in both ProStock and SuperStreetBike. The Swedish Rikard Gustafsson, who won the last round in June, this time had to settle for the second position as Jan-Sturla Hegre from Norway won the TopFuelBike. Marcus Christiansen continued his domination in the SuperTwinBike. The Danish rider won again in the Swedish arena ahead of home hero Per Bengtsson and ran a personal best time of 6’’1109, only 0’’005 away from breaking

European Pairs Speedway Championship: Team Germany rules QR in Germany Action and drama in Stralsund, Germany, where the home team (Kevin Wölbert, Norick Blödorn) won the QR of the European Pairs Speedway Championship. With team Germany on the first step of the podium, it was an exciting challenge until the last for the two qualifying spots with team Great Britain (Tom Brennan, Leon Flint, Ashton Boughen) and team Czech Republic (Jan Kvéch, Adam Bubba Bednář, Matous Kamenik). In the end, thanks to a very good performance by its leader Brennan, who scored a set of 18 points, the second place went to Great Britain thanks to one point. It is worth noting that Andriy Karpov came to Germany straight from Ukraine to take part in the competition as the only Ukrainian representative. The Final of the European Pairs Speedway Championship will be held in Lonigo, Italy, on October 20th. Links

European Sidecar Championship: Valladon/Fourcade ruled the QR Bad Hersfeld in Germany hosted the QR of the European Sidecar Championship. 13 teams from 5 different countries were prepared to battle for 6 spots in the Final. The best on the track was the French team lined up by Remi Valladon with passenger Dylan Fourcade. Second position for the couple Manuel Meier/Lena Siebert and third for Immanuel Scharamm/Nadin Löffler, both from Germany. Links FIM Europe Track Racing

Tout Terrain Rally Cup: Ro Rally Marathon Last year's winner Nicola Quinto kicked off the 2024 Ro Rally Marathon with a dominant overall win in the third round of the Tout Terrain Rally Cup in Râmnicu Sărat, Romania. This prestigious event brought together rally raid and off-road motorsport enthusiasts from all over Europe and was organized under the aegis of FIM Europe and FRM. The challenge started last Sunday with a pre-race show at the city hall and finished today. 7 days of action with over 1500 km of Special Tests and 2.000 km of total race: impressive distances and passages through picturesque landscapes and extremely challenging terrain. After the official first day of races, on Thursday the race was canceled for safety measures due to bad weather conditions with heavy rain and highly muddy slippery areas. Back to the action on Wednesday, riders found very challenging conditions. Italian’s Quinto,

European races of the weekend 10-11/08/2024  

Hill Climb and Vintage Hill Climb European Championship: Germany crowned the Hill Climb 2024 champions Challenging weekend for the final round of the Hill Climb European Championship and the fourth of the Vintage Hill Climb European Championship. The town of Lückendorf, in Germany, hosted a great and thrilling race, on a tough weekend because of the changing weather conditions. On Friday the heavy rain caused a lot of trouble in cleaning the tyres before the start of the practices. Instead, Saturday was a dry and warm day, perfect conditions for practices. Sunday was wet again, with heavy rain over the night. The track at Lückendorf was well-prepared by the organizer: MC Robur Zittau did a great job, offering to teams and riders a challenging event. In front of a very big crowd of spectators up to 180 participants joined a weekend full of race action at the end of which

Trial European Championship: Germany hosted an exciting third round Round three of the Trial European Championship was perfectly organized in Großheubach, Germany, by MSC Großheubach, which has been organising international and national events since the beginning of the eighties. Day1 In the European Championship class, home favourite rider Joschka Kraft took an early lead and kept it the whole first lap, but it was very close between the chasing group with Milosz Zyznowski, Téo Colairo, Rodney Bereiter and Paul Reumschüssel. Colairo had a very good second lap, but even if he gave his best he couldn’t reach the German rider, who won with an advantage of 4 marks. Third place for the Polish Zyznowski. In the Women's Championship, the close battle continued. After the first lap, Denisa Pechacková was leading with only one mark ahead of Vivian Wachs and Alessia Bacchetta. The end of the challenge saw Pechacková and Bacchetta