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Tout Terrain Rally Cup: a week full of emotions in Greece From Spain to Greece: the second round of the TT Rally Cup took place in Karpenissi, Grece, from 20th to 26th May. Day 1 In the prolog was the Italian Leonardo Tonelli to win with his Husqvarna. Second place for Matteo Cura (Husquarna), third for Milan Engel (KTM) from Czech Republic. Day 2 After 260 km and five and a half hours of racing, once more was the Italian Leonardo Tonelli to rule. The German Dirk Von Zitzewitz (KTM) was second close to him. The third was the Czech Republic Milan Engel, just 2 minutes behind. Day 3 Italians riders ruled the 3rd day of competition: Leonardo Tonelli won in front of Edoardo Gavicchi and Matteo Cura. 5th position for Milan Engert. Day 4 At the end of a long day and 120 km the winner was the Czech

EMX 250 European Championship and EMX 125 European Championship 2T: Rubini and Guyon fight to French EMX wins Saint Jean D'Angely, France, hosted the FIM Europe’s EMX250 and EMX125 presented by FMF Racing championships. As the third round in the 2019 EMX250 Championship, the round of France followed a month and half hiatus since the last stop at Trentino. Coming into this weekend all eyes were on Maddii Racing Husqvarna’s Alberto Forato as led the championship following his perfect races in both the UK and Italy. The first race of the two took place on Saturday after morning qualifying provided an entry list of the top 40 riders. As the gates dropped in race 1 it was Yann Crnjanski taking the holeshot ahead of Honda Redmoto Assomotor’s Stephen Rubini and Bud Racing Kawasaki’s Jimmy Clochet as Forato was buried in the pack. Before the first lap was finished both Rubini and Clochet had made it past their fellow Frenchman Crnjanski in

EMX 65 / EMX 85 European Championship South West zone: 3rd round in Portugal Fernao Joanes in Guarda, Portugal, hosted the 3rd round of the EMX 65 / EMX 85 European Championship South West zone on a technical hardpack track. In EMX85 the qualifying race was won by the French Prugnieres Quentin in front of the Spanish Canet Edgard and Puig Victor. Thrilling the EMX65: the Spanish Joel Canadas and the French Cayenne Danion changed places 15 times from start to finish, followed by another Spanish rider, Jose Zambudio. EMX 85 race 1 was ruled by qualifying winner Prugnieres, while second position for Maxime Grau. Situation unchanged at the end of the race. The Italian Valerio Lata took the 3th position in the last corners and arrived in front of the Spanish Victor Puig. Double victory for Prugnieres, who won also the second heat leading form the start to the

SEC Speedway European Championship: the weekend in Hungary Fans in Nagyhalasz, Hungary, find their brick surface as a great one, because it brings many passes on the distance and the first race of the evening only confirmed this thesis. Fantastic fight was presented by Logachov and Bellego. Ultimately, after an attack on the last lap, it was Logachov enjoying first win of the night. The Russian Grigorii Laguta came back to speedway after a two-year break and showed to be the one riders have to be afraid of. "Grisha" was unstoppable and finished the meeting with maximum points. His advance hadn't been under danger even for a second. In Hungary, there was no time to be bored at all. Nearly every heat brought tons of emotions, but on the other hand, we had many crashes. The worst one came in heat no.15, when Peter Kildemand and Robert Kovacs fell on

European Races of the weekend 25-26/05/2019  

EMX Quad European Championship: the season starts in Ukraina First seasonal race for the EMX Quad European Championship in Bucha, Ukraina. 18 riders from 12 different countries had a nice challenge in front of about 20 thousand spectators. Ruler of the weekend was the Estonian rider Kevin Saar, winner of both the two races. In Race1 second position for Zdenek Polacek from Czechy and third for Roman Gwiazda from Poland; while in Race2 Valerijs Kuzmins finished second in front of Christopeher Tveraen from Norway. Two fourth position for the Italian Patrick Turrini. Overall classification: 1. Kevin Saar 2. Valerijs Kuzmins 3. Patrick Turrini

Supermoto S2: second seasonal victory for Thomas Chareyre After an absence of two years the S2 Supermoto European Championship was back at the circuit of KartPlanet in Busca, Italy, for the second round of the season. With rain falling from the skies 21 riders took part to this one-day round. At Race1 start it was TM Factory Racing rider Thomas Chareyre who took the hole shot into the first long left corner of the KartPlanet track. Chareyre was followed by Phoenix Racing riders Markus Class and Elia Sammartin who was in his turn followed by the teammate of Chareyre, Diego Monticelli. In fifth position it was Nicolas Cousin also from Phoenix. TMS Racing rider Milan Sitnianky had to start the race from sixth and he was followed by Giovanni Bussie, Jannik Hintz and Birba Racing rider Gioele Filippetti. In the first laps Markus Class was close behind Thomas Chareyre but

EMX 2T presented by FMF Racing: Mike Kras picks up Portuguese win Picking up his second overall win in a row this weekend in Agueda, Portugal, is Team Ecomaxx Fuels’ Mike Kras. As the third round of the European 2t Championship, Portugal provided perfect conditions. Starting with Saturday’s Race1 it was Kras in the lead just edging out his teammate Youri Van t Ende. This points leader coming into the weekend was Verde Substance KTM’s Brad Anderson who, after getting a decent start in 5ththrough the first corners, crashed during the opening lap. The crash from Anderson put him way back in the pack registering 17th after the first official lap. Todd Kellett took 3rdaway from Andrea Vendruscolo early and then got into second past Van t Ende the next lap around. Emanuele Alberio was having a strong ride in 4thposition before losing spots to Vaclav Kovar, A1M Husqvarna’s Andero Lusbo, and Brad Todd as the race went on. At the finish on Saturday

EMX 65 / EMX 85 European Championship North East zone and EMX Open European Championship: second round in Lithuania The second round of the EMX 65 / EMX 85 European Championship North East zone and the third of the EMX Open European Championship was held in Siauliai, Lithuania. Race1 of EMX 85 class saw a Latvian domination: the leader Edvards Bidzans won in front of Karlis Alberts Reisulis and Roberts Lusis. The second shot was ruled by young Latvian talent Edvardz Bidzans. Second position for Reisulis and third for Zakhar Osmolovski from Russia. Race 1 of EMX65 class was ruled by home rider Marius Adomaitis. Behind him Semen Rybakov from Russia and Reisulis. Race2 winner was Rybakov, followed by two Latvian: Tomass Saicans and Reisulis. Unfortunately, local hero Adomaitis crashed two times finishing 6th. Race1 EMX Open class had a great battle between Latvian rider Toms Macuks and Martin Michek

Enduro European Championship: day2 overall-win to Kristof Kouble The Czech Kristof Kouble surprisingly won the second day of the Enduro European Championship. Because of the bad weather with heavy rain, the organizer + defused parts of the track and the special tests, because in day1 only 70 of the 107 participants crossed the finish line. Previous day's winner, Albin Elowson, have had led more than half the time, but a gearbox damage on his motorcycle caused the Swede to check out prematurely. Shortly before, his compatriot Mikael Persson, yesterday's third overall, had retired after a crash with electrical problems. The only 19-year-old junior Rony Kytönen from Finland was able to finish second in the overall standings ahead of the Brits Jed Etcheles. In this order was the overall standings over the two days and Kouble continues the championship-lead in the overall class. Both top-riders also won their cubic capacity class: