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The 27th edition of the FIM Europe Trial Championship will start at Castelloli, Spain, the upcoming weekend, with races both on Saturday and Sunday. A 5-rounds series that will award titles in the categories Europe, Junior, Over 40, Women and Youth. In Castelloli the event will be held inside a road circuit near Barcelona, which had already hosted the last round of the 2008 Trial World Championship. On Saturday the Youth and Women series will be on stage, while on Sunday it will be the turn of the most blazoned classes. Matteo Grattarola - Photo @Phototrial.it A meaningful news of the European Championship, already in force last year, is that the world top riders and the European Champions can attend the series. So, it could happen for the first time that a rider who has who has already won this championship might be crowned again. In the main class there

Spanish Arnau Farrè (Gas Gas, photo1) clinched the 26th European title in the European Trial history. The Junior Cup went to Italian Manuel Copetti (Vertigo) and the Over 40 Cup to German Markus Kipp (TRS). And this means that we did not have any surprises in this last round of the 2017 FIM Europe Championship, held in Lazzate, Italy. Indeed, all the leaders in the 3 different classes got their final prize. All photos @Phototrial.it After the incredible hot weather of the day before, weather forecast announced possible showers for this second day and they were not wrong. After the start of the International classes a heavy shower dropped making the first sections more challenging. Luckily it lasted less than one hour and all riders could benefit of the quick drying of the rocks because the sun shone again soon. The only one who celebrated the fresh crown with a

British Emma Bristow (Sherco, photo1) and French Hugo Dufrese (Gas Gas, photo2) are respectively the 2017 European champions in the Women and Youth classes, having both won the final round in the hottest Lazzate, Milan, Italy. With temperatures close to 40 Celsius degrees, the best females and the most promising young riders in the Trial world had their first challenge in trying to remain hydrated enough to have the strength to face sections almost on rocks, which the permanent Trial park area - chosen for this last round - offered. There were twelve sections all grouped together, about 2 km distant from the paddock, and it was very easy to watch all for the public present. All photos @Phototrial.it The women, first to start, showed soon they could ride without suffering too much the heat. Emma Bristow made some mistakes, because she started very early and, sometimes without adopting any

The final rounds of the FIM European championships are on the go in the upcoming week-end in Lazzate, near Milan, in Italy. About 160 riders have entered the two-day event, which will proclaim the winners in all the categories in these ever green series. Starting from Saturday on the scene, the best females Trial riders, some of them just coming from Arizona, since they rode few days ago two days of the FIM World Championship. Together with the Women, the youngest Trial riders, in the Youth class. Three times world champion British Emma Bristow (Sherco) and present leader with 285 points, cannot do any mistakes because her number one rival German Theresa Bauml (Beta, photo1) is just behind and having already beaten the number one in the last round in Latvia, will try to ride as good as she can to repeat her success. Between the two, Norwegian Ingveig Hakonsen

Burst of pride for German Theresa Bauml (Beta) and first victory for Hugo Dufrese (Gas Gas photo1) respectively in FIM Europe Women and Youth Championships: these are the two new winners in the second day of competitions disputed in Liepaja, Latvia. The third round of a series consisting of four appointments was full of dramatic turns of events. Starting from the Women class - World Champion British Emma Bristow (Sherco) was beaten by former European Champion Theresa Bauml (photo2). The turn was in the second loop: Emma got a five in section 10 and her leadership, gained until this mistake, moved to Theresa, who won for the first time in this season. Again the level of sections was thought for everybody, penalizing the best females because it was almost impossible to recover from any casual mistake. One step below today for  Norwegian Ingveig Hakonsen (Beta) to complete a podium where

World Champion British Emma Bristow (Sherco, photo 1) and Norwegian Mats Nilsson (Sherco, photo 2) are the winners respectively in the Women and Youth class of the second round of FIM Europe Trial Championship, held in Liepaja, Latvia. New country for this evergreen European championship, arrived for the first time on the banks of Baltic Sea. In the Women class, the favorite Emma Bristow had a hard work to keep her concentration higher than ever - due to not very difficult sections, the top female riders had more or less the same chances. At the turning point Emma was only in second place even if she made only one mistake. She was behind Norwegian Ingveig Hakonsen (Beta) able to clean the whole loop. In third position German Theresa Bauml (Beta), whose score was 7. In the second lap there was probably too much pressure on the young Norwegian rider, who

Women and Youth classes are going to dispute their championships on the banks of Baltic Sea because the round # 2 and # 3 of the FIM Europe Trial series will be held for the first time in the town of Liepaja, Latvia. The 2 km long circuit with 14 sections featured in is going to be decisive for assigning the 2017 titles in these two classes, because after this weekend there will be only one round left scheduled for the first week of August. Two separated rounds, one on Saturday and one on Sunday to show to Latvia public for the first time in the Trial history, an International qualified competition of this specialty. They will be lucky to see the two times World Women Champion, British Emma Bristow (Sherco, in photo1) coming from a brilliant 40th place in the hard Scottish Six Days, known as the most famous

Spanish Arnau Farrè (Gas Gas) put all British riders behind in Day2 at Bilstain, in Belgium, for the third round of  the European Championship. Italians won in the other classes: Manuel Copetti (Vertigo) and Valter Feltrinelli (Beta). Soon the first two riders in the overall standing Farré and British Toby Martyn (Vertigo) justified their positions presenting their first lap cards with 15 marks each, tied at the top of the provisional standing Iwan Roberts (Beta) was leading the group of chasers with 22 mistakes. Behind him his compatriot Jack Peace (Gas Gas) with 23 and Italian Pietro Petrangeli (Sherco) on 24. Arnau Farrè -  All photos @Phototrial Farrè improved smoothly in the second part, scoring 12, while Martyn worsened (17) and Roberts overtook him. Like yesterday, Roberts gave his best in the second loop: his score of 8 points was the best of the whole day and allowed him to

British Iwan Roberts (Beta), French Kieran Touly (Sherco) and German Markus Kipp (TRS) are the winners in the first day of the event held in the historic venue of Bilstain, Belgium, second round of the FIM Europe Championship and Cup. The schedule foresaw 15 sections to be repeated twice, all in the famous Domain Trial and Enduro, a private area belonged to Crosset family. And more or less the obstacles chosen were the same as those faced for years by the world top riders in the seventies and eighties. Many big rocks, sometimes quite difficult because covered by mud. This time, with the sun shining almost all day long, all the sections were easily overcome by any competitor and in any class. In the photo @Phototrial, Iwan Roberts Roberts found the right concentration and built his victory recovering from a temporary second place behind Jack Peace (Gas Gas), leader with

One week after the opening round held at Zelhem, The Netherlands, here are two decisive days for the European, Junior and Over 40 classes, fifty percent of their series on the historic venue of Bilstain, Belgium East, theatre of important world events in the eighties. The large property is a closed area with natural rocks and is now often used for training riders in Enduro and Motocross. In the main class there will be 25 riders able to face the spectacular obstacles included among the red gates mandatory for their riding. Fighting for the top positions we expect some confirms from British riders, quite comfortable on these changeable weather conditions, because Bilstain is just few kilometers South of Zelhem and even there the sections are rich of big rocks, in indoor style. Toby Martyn (Vertigo), Peace brothers Dan and Jack (both on Gas Gas), Iwan Roberts (Beta) are all possible