Road Racing

The second raceday at Grobnik, in Croatia, started windy and cloudy weather. Supermono Cup (photo1) In race1 Austrian Josef Frauenschuh had a very good start and was battling with his compatriot Lukas Wimmer for the first place. In the first corner the Dutchman Jerry van de Bunt was fourth, but managed to pass German Johann Karl in the first lap and kept the third place for the rest of the race despite the problems he had with the clutch. After three laps the positions at the front were settled and the distance between the riders was growing lap by lap. Behind them there was a tough but fair fight among three riders on a HKR EVO 2 for the sixth position. In the end German Dennis Bayreuther managed to be the best Rookie for the fourth time. On Sunday Race2 had totally different weather conditions. Frauenschuh had a good start again

This weekend the last round of European Stocksport 300 is being held at Grobnik, in Croatia. The 2017 European title has already been won by Daniel Blin, from Poland. In qualifying practice, the fastest rider was Vojtech Schwarz (photo1) followed by Lenhart Ulbel (photo2), both on Yamaha bikes and Gasper Hudovernik on KTM, who is a very young rider from Slovenia. He is taking part to a race for the first time and was very competitive from the beginning. His performance during the first race was also very awesome. After a bad start he followed the field with a big gap. During the race he showed a perfect performance. With his fastest lap, 8 tenth of seconds faster than the winner Vojtech Schwarz, he impressed spectators and officials. Race 1 saw Vojtech Schwarz (ACCR) winning in front of Lenhart Ulbel (AMF) and Gasper Hudovernik (AMZS, photo3). During this weekend also

On a really fine racetrack at Lokomotive Stadion of Daugavpils, in Latvia 16 young rider under 21 years, all nearly on the same level, signed a spectacular final with close and hard race. The races were performed in front of 3.500 spectators, who in the end could see the rider Robert Lambert from Great Britain become the new European champion, with Bartosz Smektale from Polen and Andreas Lyager from Denmark immediately behind him. Russian rider Gleb Chuganov finished at the 4th place after a rerun with Andreas Lyager from Denmark. Full results on FIM Europe website: http://www.fim-europe.eu/events/445        

In the weekend from Saturday 26th to Sunday 27th August, the follow­ing European races will be held: 26 August – European Under 21 Individual Speedway Championship at Daugavpils/Latvia 26-27 August – Road Race Hill Climb European Championship at Spoleto/Italy 26-27 August – Supermoto European Championship, Supermoto Junior and S3 at Kustendil/Bulgaria European Supermoto ©BProm    

The European U21 Team Speedway Championship was scheduled last weekend at Krosno, in Poland. Heavy rain, as the toughest challenge of speedway races, stopped Polish youngsters on their way to the podium since they’ve won four out of five heats. Maybe a lot would have changed in next 15 heats, but Referee and the Jury stopped the meeting after Heat 5, which wasn’t enough heats to verify results; at least 10 heats should be done to decide the U21 European Team Champion. After many glances to the sky and a bit of hope that the rain will stop, the track was already soaked from the rain and it was not possible to continue. The group of 19 riders from 4 Countries was informed at 19:10 that they had to leave lovely stadium, notwithstanding the organizer did its best to provide them best conditions. Due to the bad forecast on the

The Polish Team will defend the title conquered last year: Poland, in fact, won in 2016 the European U21 Team Speedway Championship in Stralsund. Poland will host teams from Denmark, Latvia and Germany. Riders will arrive at Krosno on August 19th very early, because practice is scheduled for 11 am on the day of the competition. The final will start at 5 pm. “It will be a great race, not on black track any more, because the track surface has changed. Of course we aim to win, and our goal is only one: the gold medal”, said the coach Rafał Dobrucki. Krosno is waiting for fans to come, not only from Poland, and the city is ready to welcome guests from all over Europe. During the press conference in Krosno, before the European U21 Team Speedway Championship, the drawing for the colours of the helmet took place, done by the

The picturesque town of Hertingen in the South of Germany hosted the 2017 European Individual Grass Track Final, with the event producing some very spectacular and close racing throughout Saturday evening. The 3,000 spectators who attended the event were treated to a number of ‘wheel to wheel’ races with riders not giving a centimetre during the 12 qualify heats. Once all the points had been totalled, the field of the top 16 point scoring riders were allocated to the three (C, B and A) Finals. With two ‘last chance’ places available for the winner and seconded place riders (in the B Final), to qualify through to the all-important A Final, racing was again extremely competitive with Edward Kennet (ACU) and home German rider Christian Hurlshorst (DMSB) finally managing to gain these two important places. This enabled them to join the defending Champion, Brit James Shanes, former multi European Stephan Katt,

The European U19 Individual Speedway Cup was held at Divisov, in Czech Republic, in a cloudy, windy day after the heavy rain of the day before. Over 200 spectators watched very interesting races among 18 very young riders from 10 different Countries. The racing was very tight in the whole meeting and the riders fought also with a bit tricky track, with a lot of deep ruts. After 21 heats, in the Final heat the winner was the Brit Robert Lambert, in front of Filip Hjelmland, from Sweden, of Bartosz Smektala from Poland and of Michael Haertel from Germany. Robert Lambert managed to snatch victory in all 6 his heats. It was the first meeting after a few years when the riders under 19 competed for the FIM Europe Cup.    

European top solo Grass Track riders head to the picturesque town of Hertingen in the South of Germany this weekend for Saturday’s staging of the FIM Europe Individual Grass Track Final, where one of the eighteen racers will be crowned 2017 European Champion. OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA The Hertingen Club will host Europe's Blue Riband event at their super-fast banked circuit and on Saturday evening it will see the Brit James Shanes (in the photo above) defend the title he won in dramatic style at Swingfield in England 11 months ago (in photo 2, the rostrum of 2016). Hopes for the German hosts rest largely on two former winners of the crown. Stephan Katt bids to become the first man ever to win the title four times, a feat which would elevate him above fellow-countryman Robert Barth and Dutch rider Jannick de Jong. Veteran Bernd Diener won his European crown in

The European 85 cc Youth Speedway Cup was held at Vetlanda (Sweden) with 35 riders at the start. The event was held in a cloudy weekend, with some rain during the semifinals, while in the final day the weather was better, but windy. It was nice to see riders from 6 different Countries. The semifinal 1 was held with fine weather but during the semifinal 2, heavy raining started after heat 7. The staff did an excellent work and after one hour the meeting started again. In Final day the track condition was good and also the weather was good. The racing was very tight in the whole meeting and after 20 heats the re-run was held for second and third place. The winner was Marcus Birkemose, in front of Mathias Pollestad and Philip Hellström- Bängs. The Club personal did a perfect work during the whole weekend and the stadium