Road Racing

The final of the UEM Under 21 Team Speedway Junior European Championship was held yesterday the 8th of September 2012 in the wonderful setting of Landshut in Bavaria (Germany) on a warm sunny evening. The race meeting which consisted of four teams from Germany, Poland, Ukraine and Denmark was very competitive and the young riders put up a great show of strength throughout the event. The 2500 spectators witnessed some very exciting racing with some of the heats being too close to call, with riders overtaking and re overtaking before the reaching the final flag. Once the scores were finalised and agreed, the new 2012 European Under 21 Team Speedway Champions were Poland, with 48 points, 2nd was Denmark with 41 points and Ukraine in third place. Everyone who attended the event agreed that it was a very good championship final with the young riders showing great determination and good

The second semi-final of the Pairs Speedway European Championship was held yesterday the 8th of September 2012 on the Hungarian track of Miskolc. The winners of the semi-final was the pair from Latvia: Anzejs Lebedevs and Kasts Puodzuks. The final is scheduled on the 22nd of September in Rivne (Ukraine). (UEM Press Release 138/2012)

The 2nd round of the new competition in the UEM, called the “Hill Climb Road Racing”, was held on the beautiful Passo Zambla in the area of Gorno near Bergamo in Italy. In total 97 riders were present to race “up to the hill” for over 2290 meters of racing track and making an altitude of 181 meter. The track has 7 square corners to the right and 8 to the left. Also 3 over 180 degrees hairpins. The average speed is not over 80 km/h. The weather conditions were perfect so high in the mountains. All was very well organised run without any problems. (UEM Press Release 135/2012)

The second final of the Individual Speedway European Championship was held yesterday the first of September 2012 on the Latvian track of Dougavpils. The victory went to the Russian rider Grigory Laguta in front of Czech rider Ales Dryml and Latvian Andrejs Lebedevs. In the provisional rankings is leading the Czech rider Ales Dryml with 28 points. Next final round is scheduled on the 15th of September in Krsko (Slovenia) and the last one on the 30th of September in Mureck (Austria). (UEM Press Release 132/2012)

The third and last round of the Two Countries Cup was held today in Moscow (Russia). The winner of this round was Russian rider Maxim Kiselev (Honda), followed by Russian Sergey Orlov (Yamaha) and Belgian Dakota Mamola (Yamaha). After the three round the winner of the two Countries Cup is the Italian Denis Sacchetti (Kawasaki) with 56 points followed by Belgian Dakota Mamola (Yamaha) with 40 points. (UEM Press Release 126/2012)

The first Semi-Final of the European Pairs Speedway European Championship was held yesterday on the Danish track of Munkebo. The Danish team (Kenni Larsen, Peter Kildemand, Nikolai Jakobsengot) was the winner in front of Germany and Denmark. The next Semi-Final is scheduled on the 8th of September in Miskolc (Hungary). (UEM Press Release 125/2012)

The final of the Individual Speedway Junior European Championship was held yesterday on the Polish track of Opole. The winner and new 2012 European Champion was Polish rider Bartosz ZMARZLIK, second Polish Tobiasz MUSIELAK and third Danish Mikkel MICHELSEN. (UEM Press Release 124/2012)

The 2012 UEM Grass Track Individual Final was certainly a hot competition with the event being staged in temperatures approaching 34 Celsius at Eenrum in the North of Holland. The 4000 spectators witnessed some very exciting racing with riders not giving a centimetre during the 12 qualify heats. Once all the points were totalled, the field of 18 riders were allocated to the three (C, B and A) Finals. With two places available for the winner and 2nd place from the B Final racing was again extremely competitive with Dirk Fabriek (FMB) and Glen Philips (ACU) joining Ales Dryml (ACCR), Stephan Katt (DMSB), Jörg Tebbe (DMSB) and Jannick de Jong (KNMV) in the final. With Ales Dryml being unbeaten during the qualifying heat, he started favorite. However Katt had other ideas and he out gated the other five riders, to lead the race from start to finish. (UEM Press Release

The first final of the Individual Speedway European Championship was held yesterday the 18th of August 2012 on the Polish track of Rawicz. The victory went to the Czech rider Ales Dryml in front of two Polish riders Tomasz Gapinski and Robert Miskowiak. The new format of the European Championship includes three more finals, to be held on the first of September in Daugavpils (Latvia), on the 15th of September in Krsko (Slovenia) and on the 30th of September in Mureck (Austria). (UEM Press Release 117/2012)

The Semi-Final 1 and Semi-Final 2 of the Youth Speedway Racing European Cup 80cc were held yesterday in Czestochowa Poland). In the first Semi-Final Victory went to Danish rider Sam Jensen, followed by two other Danish riders Frederik Jakobsen and Mads Hansen. In the second Semi-Final again the first three riders from Denmark: Sebastian Mortensen, Jonas Jensen and Andreas Lyager. The final was won by Danish Frederik Jakobsen, second position to Danish Andreas Lyager and third position to Danish Jason Jorgensen. (UEM Press Release 110/2012)