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Vintage Regularity Cup: Round 1 in Slovakia The first round of the Vintage Regularity Cup was held on May 1st in Slovakia with the organization of the Classic Club Hlohovec. Slovakiaring welcame 59 riders and 15 sidecars with 4 different races and 6 classifications in 2 rounds. The free practice at Wednesday evening was with wet conditions, but qualifying and races were with good weather. The winners: Class EC A1 – Kamenar Lubomir Class EC A2 – Schmidt Kvetoslav Class EC B – Talaga Otakar Class EC C – Bezouska Jakub Class EC D – Kupka Radoslav Class EC E Side – Chmelar Petr

EMX 65 / EMX 85 European Championship South West zone and EMX Women's European Championship: Cardineau, Russi and Van Der Vlist the winner The city of Vesoul, France, hosted on 04th-05th May a thrilling cross weekend. During the pre-qualifications it started raining and it became colder: in the afternoon started snowing and it was necessary to stop racing because of too much water on the track. On EMX 65 the French Cardineau Felix was first in front of the Spanish Perez Salvador and another French rider Pigois Basile. In EMX 85 two Italians on top: Lata Valerio in front of Russi Matteo. The women’s class was led by the experienced Stephanie Laier in front of the Danish Dam Line and Dutch Valk Lynn. On Sunday morning the track was very wet and muddy. For the 65 cc class it was a very tough to race. Overall winner was Cardineau, followed

EMX 65 / EMX 85 European Championship North East zone and EMX Open European Championship: round 1 in Ukraine City of Kovel, Ukraine, hosted the first round of the Motocross European Chamionship NW zone with good weather on Saturday, but rain and cold on Sunday. Race 1 EMX 65 class saw a nice battle between winner of this race Marius Adomaitis from Lithuania and second Ricards Alens Galcins from Latvia. Third position for the Estonian Gregor Kuusk. In Race 1 EMX 85 class ruled the Latvian young talent Edvards Bidzans. Second was another latvian rider Kirils Maslovs and third Aleh Makhnou from Belarusia. Martin Michek from Czech Republic won the EMX Open class in front of home rider Roman Morozov and another Czech Peter Michalec. Race 2 were more difficult due to the heavy rain. In EMX 65 class the Latvian Janis Martins Reisulis won in front of Semen Rybakov

SEC Speedway European Championship: Qualifying Round 4 in Slovenia Over 1.500 spectators enjoyed an exciting day at the sunny MatijaGubec stadium. Russian Grigoriy Laguta was the undisputed winner of the qualifying round 4 at the Matija Gubecstadium in Krško, Slovenia. Behind him the Polish Kacper Woryna, second, and the Russian Sergej Logatchev, third. The top three is qualified to the Euro Challenge meeting in Hungary. Expectedly, Matic Ivačič was the best Slovenian rider and with his final fifth place he still has some hope of being called to the Euro Challenge as a reserve. Following Matic’ great heats, was his club teammate, Denis Štojs who ended up in 11th place with 7 points and showed great performance amongst a tough international competition from 12 different countries. The classification: Laguta Grigory Russia Woryna Kacper Poland Logatchev Sergey Russia

SEC Speedway European Championship: Qualifying Round 3 in Ukraine QR3 was held on 2nd May in Rivne, Ukraine. The original date was the 1st May, but due to the heavy rain and the bad track conditions, Tuesday’s practice was canceled. Unfortunately, also one race was canceled, because of the wet track, not suitable for a race. Thanks to the good conditions, on Thursday the race took place with no other delay. The classification: Jepsen Jensen Michael Denmark Lebedevs Andzejs Latvia Kildemand Peter Denmark

The new FIM Europe Magazine is now online! The FIM Europe is proud to announce the new edition of the FIM Europe Magazine. Number #01 is now online with a recap of the races, the events and the meetings of the FIM Europe. Inside reports and focus on, with a recap of the whole FIM Europe world and championships. Finally, a look to Zagreb 2019 waiting for the FIM Europe Congress! Click here to read the brand-new issue of FIM Europe Magazine or download it for free. Enjoy the reading!

European Races of the weekend 4-5/05/2019  

Supersport 300 Cup / Superstock 1000 Cup / Supermono Cup: the first round in Slovakia The first round of FIME Superstock 1000 Cup was raced this weekend at Slovakiaring, near Bratislava, Slovakia. The first part of the race saw the fight of Michal Filla and Michal Prasek, but in the battle, both crashed. Marek Szkopek crashed in turn 1 too, causing the red flag. In this way the winner of the first STK 1000 race was Arnold Friedrich from Germany. The Hungarian Mate Laczko was second and Dominik Juda, from the Czech Republic, third.   SSP 300 European Cup race was very interesting and competitive till the end. The winner was Mate Szamado from Hungary, followed by David Kuban (Czech Republic) and Roman Kucera from Slovakia.     The Supermono Cup starts this year’s competition with three races at Slovakia. Jerry van de Bunt was able to win all three

CEV Repsol Moto2 European Championship and European Talent Cup: Valencia thrills to the second round of the FIM CEV Repsol The second round of the FIM CEV Repsol this weekend at the Circuit Ricardo Tormo in Valencia did not disappoint and provided some thrilling racing. Edgar Pons had a brilliant weekend in Valencia, dominating the qualifying practice sessions, setting the fastest lap time in the race, securing his first victory of the season and ending up as overall leader of the Moto2™ European Championship. The race was stopped after a multiple fall involving Niki Tuuli (Team Stylobike), Matteo Ferrari (Gresini Laglisse Academy) and Alessandro Zaccone (Promoracing), which was caused by a trail of oil left by Marcel Brenner's machine on the first lap. The Moto2™ race was restarted but without the injured Tuuli on the grid. Once again Pons took the lead followed by Héctor Garzó (CNS Motorsport). The two pulled away followed

EMX 65 / EMX 85 European Championship South West zone and EMX Women's European Championship: Italian round in Gazzane di Preseglie The Galaello track presented as quite demanding for the beginning of the free practices on Saturday morning, due to the heavy rain of the previous days. Thanks to the postponement to the early afternoon and the sunny and windy day both free and qualifying practices could be carried out without particular problems. The EMX 85 qualifying practices were won by Edgar Canet from Spain (group B) and Simone Pavan from Italy (group A), whereas the EMX 65 were won by Filippo Mantovani from Italy (Group B) and Joel Canadas Gonzales from Spain (group A). The EMX women saw as the best rider of the qualifying practices Shana Van der Vlist from Holland ahead of Stephanie Laier from Germany. Sunday started after a rainy night making the track heavier than