Road Racing

The fourth round of the Honda Junior Cup was held today in Donington Park. The weather for the Free Practice and 1st qualifying session on Friday was dry but cloudy. On Saturday the conditions were not good with a wet qualifying session, however all 21 riders qualified to race. On Sunday the race was declared a wet race, with 21 riders starting the race. The weather conditions improved during the race and 8 riders competed closely for the top places. Javier Orellana (Europ Food SL) has come out victorious in the 10 lap Pata European Junior Cup race. The 16 year old from Mallorca, Spain, who is currently contesting his third season in the series, was able to take the lead and to get a small margin on the five-rider chasing pack on the last lap, crossing the line ahead of Angelo Licciardi (S.E.F.A.B Racing), Augusto Fernandez (WIL Sport), Illan

This years first round of the FIM Europe Honda NSF 100 Cup was held today in fine weather. The great venue Kartarena is located in the West of Czech Republic – just outside Cheb. For 2014 the circuit was slightly modified (200m longer with two additional corners). The first race showed a very close battle for the podium positions between Dirk Geiger (GER), Peetu Paavilainen (FIN) and Petr Svoboda (CZE). Behind this group it was Troy Bude (GER) on a comfortable 4th place. The second race seemed to be a smooth copy of race number one. Just the gaps between all riders were a little bit bigger – except for the fight for the 5th position. There it was again Oliver König (CZE) and Lucas Schaba (GER), but finally in reverse order. The next round of the Honda NSF 100 Cup will take place together with all Mini Road Racing

Yesterday the semifinal for the Team Speedway U21 European Championship was held at the track of Plzen (CZE). Unfortunately the nominated team of Russia had withdrawn and had to be replaced by a mixed European squad. Together with teams coming from Finland, Sweden and the host nation Czech Republic they were racing for the last qualification place for the final. During the whole meeting a close fight was going on between Czech Republic and Sweden which saw the team of Czech Republic win on 45 points, just 2 points ahead of 2nd placed team Sweden on 43 points. Team Finland finished 3rd on 26 points and Team Euro with 4 points on 4th place. The spectators could see ambitious speedway youngsters fighting for their team and country against each other. This caused some accidents but without any injuries to the riders concerned. The team of Czech Repulic will now complete

The Semi-Final 3 of the Individual Speedway European Championship was held today in Zarnovica (Slovakia). More than 3 000 spectators watched an impressive meeting with very good line up. Unfortunately meeting was finished after heat 20 before run-offs after heavy rain falls. Top five riders qualified for Challenge :Janusz Kolodziej,Peter Kildemand, Joonas Davidsson,Adrian Miedzinski and Tomas Suchanek. Next round is the ECC scheduled on the 9th of June in Debrecen (Hungary).    Download here FIM Europe Press Release 057/2014    

The FIME has received the communication from the Circuit of Albacete cancelling the Road Race event envisaged for October the 5th. The reason for the annulation of the event, as well as the impossibility for it to be held for the years 2015-16-17, is due to the decision of the consortium of the Albacete Road Racing Circuit, which has approved its financial scheme in the following years. These decisions do not allow to proceed with the celebration of the Road Race event in the circuit.    Download here FIM Europe Press Release 056/2014  

The Semi-Final 2 of the Individual Speedway European Championship was held today in Krsko (Slovenia). 1500 spectators watched an impressive meeting., with 2 additional heats for reserve place and for 1st , 2nd and 3rd place. The unhappy man of the night was a home hero Aleksander Conda who broke a collarbone after winning his first heat. Qualified riders are: Maksims Bogdanovs, Przemyslav Pawlicki, Andriy Karpov, Jurica Pavlic, Hans Andersen, and the reserve is Daniel Nermark. Next Semi-Final round is scheduled on the 24th of May in Zarnovica (Slovakia).    Download here FIM Europe Press Release 053/2014      

The first Semi-Final of the Individual Speedway European Championship was held today in Dougavpils (Latvia). Michael Jepsen Jensen was flying to the victory in the semifinal 1 in Daugavpils, finishing on 14 points, the victory was almost secured before his last heat, only needing 1 point to take first place. More exciting was the result for the next places, before the last 4 heats, 8 riders was in play for the last 4 qualification places. After finishing the last 4 heats it was clear that 4 riders was equal on 11 point, but all riders was through to the ECC. Two riders was also equal on 10 points for reserve place. In first run-off Russian Renat Gafurov took a victory against Josef Franc and securing the reserve place. Final heat was a run off for 2-3-4 and 5 position. Local hero Andzejs Lebedevs took the victory in the run-off, finishing

The 3rd round of the FIM European Honda Junior Cup took place this weekend on the Imola circuit. 22 riders from 14 nations went to the start. The race developed into a very exciting competition. A group of 11 riders battled lap after lap for the podium. In round 6, there were still 10 and in the last lap it was only 7. The winner was Augusto FERNANDEZ in front of Javier ORELLANA and Josh HARLAND all Spanish riders. Augusto Fernandez (WIL Sport) has come out victorious at the end of an exciting battle for the victory in the Pata European Junior Cup, powered by Honda race at Imola. The young Spaniard crossed the line a fraction of a second ahead of compatriot Javier Orellana (Europe Food SL), second, and Brit Josh Harland (Josh Harland), third, with several other protagonists who were also in contention for the win. Fernandez is

The 3rd round of the FIM European Championship took place today on the Imola circuit (Italy). The Italian Rider Marco Faccani went on to start in the lead and won ahead of the Finn Niki Tuuli and Stefano Casa Lotti (Italy). Marco Faccani (San Carlo Team Italia Kawasaki) narrows thus his gap to the leader of the FIM Europe Superstock 600 Championship Tuuli after taking a lights to flag victory in the third round of the series at Imola today. Behind Faccani, a titanic race long battle kept the crowd entertained with eventually Niki Tuuli (Kallio Racing Yamaha) and Stefano Casalotti (VFT Racing Yamaha) completing the podium. The Finnish rider recovered from saving what looked almost certain to be a big highside crash on the opening lap, starting his charge on the leader before eventually settling for second place and keeping the championship lead for just 2 points over today's

The first semi-final of the speedway Pairs European Championship was held yesterday in Debrecen (Hungary). 2.200 spectators watched impressive speedway meeting. Heavy rain interrupted meeting for more than 1 hour. Winning pair from Latvia with 23 points, second from Russia with 22 points, and home Hungarian pair with 19 points. The final is scheduled on the 13th of September in Divisov (Czech Republic).    Download here FIM Europe Press Release 043/2014