Road Racing

The fourth and last final of the Individual Speedway European Championship was held today on the Austrian track of Mureck. For the first time, the title of an European Speedway Champion was given after a set of 4 final races. The new champion is Ales Dryml, Czech Republic, who could defend his leading position without too much efforts. 2nd finished Robert Miskowiak (Poland), the 3rd place was kept by Andriy Karpov (Ukraine). Winner of the last race was Kenni Larsen, Denmark, who defeated Robert Miskowiak only by run off. A crowd of nearly 2000 spectators saw a well organised event with excellent races. (UEM Press Release 154/2012)

Dorna and RFME inform that the following riders (see attachments) are currently registered to participate to the Road Racing European Championship, scheduled in Albacete (Spain) on the 6th and 7th of October 2012 Download here the entry lists of the event: Supersport 600 Entry List 2012 Superstock 1000 Entry List 2012 Moto3 125GP Entry List 2012 Road Racing EC Nations Statistics

The fore last round of this season for the EC Superstock 600 Road Race was run today at the fantastic nice Autodromo Algarve circuit in Portimao (Portugal). With a points difference of 2, the 1st and 2nd placed riders respectively Dutch Michael van der Mark (Honda) and Italian Riccardo Russo (Yamaha) had a prestigious race to go. Michael had pole position and Ricardo second after he had technical problems in the 2nd qualifying practice. After a brilliant start of Russo with Van der Mark on the fourth place the battle starts after the fourth lap when Van der Mark catches Russo. For a couple of laps they came side by side over the finish. But in the sixth lap Russo made a little mistake in the difficult hairpin. After this Van der Mark finished with a gap of almost 6 seconds before second Russo. A very exciting fight was on

The third final of the Individual Speedway European Championship was held yesterday on the Slovenian track of Krsko. Winner of the round was Ukrainian Andriy Karpov followed by Latvian Andzejs Lebedevs. The leader of provisional rankings is Czech Ales Dryml with 40 points, in front of Karpov and Lebedevs both with 34 points. The last final is scheduled on the 30th of September in Mureck (Austria). (UEM Press Release 149/2012)

The 8th round of the Superstock 600 European Championship series and the 9th round of the KTM European Junior Cup were held this weekend in Nuerburgring (Germany). In the Superstock 600 cc the Qualifying practice on Friday and Saturday was running under very good weather condition, sunny and not so hot. Fastest was the Dutch rider Michael Van der Mark with new track-record 2:02.677. The Belgian Rider G. Duwelz crashed in the sighing lap so the 3th place on the grid was free. The race saw the victory of Dutch rider Michael Van der Mark (Honda), followed by Italian Riccardo Russo (Yamaha) and Italian Franco Morbidelli (Yamaha). Thanks to this victory Van der Mark managed to overtake Russo and is now leading the provisional rankings with 169 points. Next round is scheduled on the 23rd of September in Portimao (Portugal). The 6th round of this season for the Road Racing

After the first round held in Zuera (Spain) in July, the second round was held in the tight technical Kartarena circuit just outside Cheb in the Czech Republic. By the end of the two sessions local Czech riders Martin Gbelec and Filip Salac were at the top of the qualifiers, almost a second in front of German Philip Freitag who headed the rest of the pack. The hot weather and the grippy surface were once again causing heavy tyre wear for the harder riders like Patrik Pulkinen from Finland and fresh tyres were the order of the day for the races. When the first race started all eyes were on a very relaxed Gbelec, comfortably leading the series. Already with a win in the German championship to his credit and having posted the fastest time in practice it seemed he was unstoppable in his quest to win the Honda NSF

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)