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European Supersport Cup 600: the season starts in Spain The first round of the European Supersport Cup 600 was held this weekend at MotorLand Aragon, Spain. As part of the FIM Supersport World Championship, the ESSP 600 riders have dealt with strong adversaries, with an intriguing race in the first part of the 16-lap encounter, before a traditional fairing-bashing battle took place in the final part of the race. Good race for Kyle Smith (Team Pedercini Racing), who finished 9th receiving 7 points for the standing. Too bad for the French Xavier Navand (DK Motorsport) and Gaetan Matern (Flembbo Leader Team), crashed at the beginning of the race Next round of the ESSP 600 in on 14th April at TT Assen, the Netherlands.  

EMX 65 and EMX 85 European Championship: Coenen and Marek leader at the end of round 1 On Sunday 7th April was raced the round of the EMX 65 and EMX85 Europen Championship in Velke Uherce, Slovakia. Due to the bad weather conditions, Saturday’s qualifying was cancelled, but fortunately on Sunday the weather was perfect for all the races. The final results of EMX85 saw the Belgian Sacha Coenen win in front of Cas Valk, second, and Ivano Van Erp, third. Final result class EMX 85: 1. Sacha Coenen BEL FMB Yamaha 2. Cas Valk NED KNMV Yamaha 3. Ivano Van Erp NED KNMV Yamaha Final result class EMX 65: 1. Vítezslav Marek CZE ACCR KTM 2. Lotte Van Drunen NED KNMV KTM 3. Ashton Boughen GBR ACU YZ  

Superenduro Cup: the season ends in Bilbao The last event of 2019 years Superenduro European Cup was held on 06th April in the Bizkaia Arena of Bilbao, Spain, together with Maxxis FIM Superenduro World Championship and an exciting crowd of over 2.000. 15 riders took part to the qualification for the finals, in a technical track with a lot of different jumps and obstacles such as logs and stones. Winner of the first final was the French Paul Bury, while the German Robert Scharl got the second. After the two finals Scharl won followed by Bury, second, and Tom Knight, third.  

Snowcross European Championship: Filip Öhman rules the competition The FIM Europe Snowcross Championship took place on 4th April in Bodens Travbana, Sweden, in a partly cloudy day with cold temperatures. On the 740m long track Filip Öhman was the most impressive once the racing started taking the lead of Final 1 from the first lap and never losing the position before finishing nearly 20 seconds ahead of second place rider Jens Vikman. Final 2 was led by Robert Lunden for most of the time but with 4 laps of 16 remaining he dropped to 4th handing the lead to Öhman. After holding on to the inherited lead for the final laps Öhman took the race by 4 seconds and the overall championship win with the maximum 50 points! 2nd overall went to Jens Vikman and Gustav Salomonsson took 3rd.

CEV Repsol Moto2 European Championship: the season starts at Estoril Circuit The 2019 FIM CEV Repsol season started this weekend at the Circuito do Estoril in Portugal. Niki Tuuli (Team Stylobike) took the win in the first Moto2™ race, which was affected by water on the track. Edgar Pons (Baiko Racing Team) took the lead from the pole, but just three laps later Yari Montella (Team Ciatti) passed the Baiko Racing Team rider to pull away, imposing a good pace and posting a series of fast laps. Niki Tuuli also passed Edgar Pons and worked hard to claw back the leading rider. However, everything changed with four laps to go when Montella went down, losing all hopes of a win. But things went from bad to worse for the Team Ciatti rider: after rejoining in fourth position he fell yet again and, in the end, pulled out of the race.

EMX125 Presented by FMF Racing European Championship: Mattia Guadagnini starts on top in the Netherlands In addition to the World Championship classes of MXGP, MX2, and WMX this weekend the 125cc two-stroke of EMX125 presented by FMF Racing ripped around the Dutch circuit of Valkenswaard. Spring weather combined with the ring and premix of two strokes invoked some of the most unique racing all weekend. The FIM Europe Championship is one of the most competitive and popular in the world hosting 100 entries through two days of racing. The 125cc riders started their fight through the deep and challenging sand of Valkenswaard on Saturday for Race 1. Maddii Racing Husqvarna’s Mattia Guadagnini took the race win after leading every one of the 14 laps with A1M Husqvarna’s Jorgen Matthias Talviku finishing 2nd and RFX KTM Racing’s Joel Rizzi 3rd. On Sunday morning Race 2, just prior to the first MX2 and MXGP Races. Guyon

Vintage Enduro European Championship: the first round in Italy The first round of the Vintage Enduro European Championship was held in Piacenza, Italy. About 100 riders took part to the first event of the calendar, with spring weather conditions and temperatures. The Overall winner was the Italian Fausto Scovolo, who ruled in the six special tests in front of Paolo Giulietti, second, and Osvlado Armanni, third. The Enduro Vintage European Championship calendar: 1. Italy (30th-31st March) 2. France (1st-2nd June) 3. Spain (4th-6th October)

European Races of the weekend 30-31/03/2019 1. EMX 125 2T European Championship, 30th-31st March, Valkenswaard - Netherlands 2. Vintage Enduro European Championship, 30th-31st March, Piacenza - Italy  

EMX 250 and EMX 2T European Championship: Alberto Forato and Brad Anderson winners and points leaders The Matterley Basin circuit was host to much more than just the MXGP and MX2 World Championship racing this weekend as the FIM Europe Motocross Championship joined in the action. Team Maddii Racing Husqvarna’s Alberto Forato and Verde Substance KTM’s Brad Anderson came in force to start their respective championship seasons as both winners and points leaders. The well know class of EMX250 is a breeding ground for potential MX2 and later MXGP stars as proven by many former graduates but this weekend at the grassy and green hills of Matterley Basin an all new category joined in alongside. The all new EMX2T presented by FMF Racing sang for the first time this year and ever over the past 2 days. EMX250 Race 1 on Saturday started off with Raf Meuwissen in the lead with Jimmy Clochet, Ruben Fernandez, Pierre Goupillon and Kevin Horgmo all

The first round of the Tout Terrain Rally Cup was held in Spain The first round of the Bajas European Championship was held in Serta, Portugal, in combination with the FIM World Cup and the National Championship for bikes, quads, SSVs and cars, with a total number 140 riders. After Friday’s Supertest (10 km), the competition was a “two-days” race. Saturday’s race was 230 km long and the winner was Tiago Santos from Portugal, who lead almost the whole day. Good race for Jakub Piatek (Poland): at the first check point he had 17 second of advantage but at the end he finished second. Third place for Vitor Lopes and fourth for Rita Vieira, both from Portugal. Rita won the woman class too. On Sunday the race was 110 km long and the results were the same of day1, with a great fight for the win between Tiago Santos and