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In the weekend from Friday 3rd to Sunday 5th August, the follow­ing European races will be held: 3-5 August - Vintage Road Racing European Championship at Donington Park/Great Britain 4-5 August - EMX 125 and 250 at Lommel/Belgium 4-5 August - Trial European Championship Women, Youth, Over 40 and Junior at Santo Stefano d’Aveto/Italy 4 August - European Watercross Cup at Sodankylä/Finland 4-5 August - Minimoto Road Racing European Championship at Franciacorta/Italy

The 3rd round of European Endurance Cup was held last weekend on the beautiful racetrack of Dijon in France, with the organization of Bike Promotion. On Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning the qualifying practice was held. The first three teams in the European Endurance Cup were: Bike Parts Van de Kamp, from The Netherlands, Aprilia Team Grebenstein from Germany and Pecable Racing Team from Switzerland. The race started at 1 pm in very hot conditions, with 34°C. 37 teams started the race, 8 for the European Endurance Cup: German Endurance Cup and FIM Europe Endurance Cup, in fact, were held together. Two safety car procedures after crashes provided a very close race up to the end. After 6 hours the Aprilia Team Grebenstein won ahead of Bike Parts Van de Kamp and Pecable Racing Team. Full results on FIM Europe website: http://www.fim-europe.eu/events/601  

Edgard Pons (AGR Team, photo1) won both races in the Moto2™ European Championship and José Antonio Rueda (Talent Team Estrella Galicia 0,0) and David Muñoz (Jerez Andalucía Motor Talent) shared the victories in the European Talent Cup (photo2). Edgar Pons collected his first win of the season in the Moto2™ ECh after going solo in the opening laps. The AGR Team rider crossed the line more than two seconds ahead of Jesko Raffin (Swiss Innovative Investors Junior) while Héctor Garzó (Team Wimu CNS) finished third more than 11 seconds behind the winner to secure his first podium of the season. Alessandro Zetti (Fau55 Racing) was the best classified in Superstock 600. Edgar Pons received the Repsol free fuel cheque. The second Moto2™ race was interrupted by a red flag after Dimas Ekky (Astra Honda Racing Team) crashed in the opening laps. The race was then restarted, having been shortened to

The 4th round of the European Supersport Cup was held at Grobnik, in Croatia together with the Alpe Adria International Championship event. On the brand new surface of the Grobnik track the riders were faster than before, notwithstanding typically Croatian Summer weather conditions. The Saturday practice was held without any hard problem and the qualifying result is: Roman Kucera from Slovakia (photo1) ahead of South African Samuel Lochoff and of Michal Búlik from Slovakia (photo2). In Race1 the final ranking saw Kucera ahead of Búlik and Lochoff. In Race2 the podium saw Búlik winning ahead of Lochoff and of Vojtech Schwarz from Czech Republic. In both days the races were spectacular and satisfied the around 3000 spectators who attended the event even though the weather was very hot. Martin de Graaff, FIM Europe first Deputy President, visited the Alpe Adria race weekend on the circuit of Grobnik and stated: “Under

The Latvian town of Stelpe hosted the last round of the European Quad Championship of the seson, with 25 riders from 11 Countries ahead of around 5.000 spectators. On Saturday in the qualifying race the winner was Kevin Saar from Estonia, ahead of Christopher Tveraen from Norway and Roman Gwiazda from Poland. Today in Race1 the qualifying positions were maintained and Kevin Saar won ahead of Christopher Tveraen and Roman Gwiazda. In Race2 Kevin Saar won again, this time ahead of British Harry Walker and Emils Phoelich from Latvia. In the overall Kevin Saar won with 50 points, second was Harry Walker ahead of Ricard Phoelich, both with 38 poinnts. The European Champion of 2018 is Estonian Kevin Saar ahead of Christopher Tveraen and Harry Walker. Full results on FIM Europe website: http://www.fim-europe.eu/events/602

José Antonio Rueda (Talent Team Estrella Galicia 0.0) in the European Talent Cup made his debut as poleman in the fifth round of the FIM CEV Repsol this weekend in MotorLand Aragon, as did Edgar Pons (AGR Team) on his return this season to the Moto2 European Championship. In Moto2™ EC, Edgar Pons (AGR Team, photo1) secured his first pole of the season, breaking Jesko Raffin’s (Swiss Innovative Investors Junior) two-pole streak with a time of 1:53.675. Category leader Jesko Raffin finished second and Héctor Garzó (Team Wimu CNS), third. Very few riders improved on the times achieved in the morning session. Lukas Tulovic (Team Wimu CNS), Tommaso Marcon (Team Ciatti) and Miquel Pons (Bullit) will be looking to get back on the podium from the second row of the grid, taking advantage of the absence of Augusto Fernández, who has been on the podium in each race so far,

In sunny, hot conditions, the European U21 Individual Speedway Championship Semi-final 3 was held at Oslo (Norway) ahead of around 200 spectators. Racing was tough with lot of overtaking. The winner was Swedish Joel Kling in front of Frederick Jakobsen and Andreas Lyager Hansen, both from Denmark. The first six riders were qualified to the final: the fourth position was taken by Lasse Fredriksen from Norway, ahead of Patrick Hansen and Christian Thaysen, both from Denmark. The final will be held at Stralsund, Germany, on 15 September.

In the weekend from Saturday 28th to Sunday 29th July, the follow­ing European races will be held: 28 July - U21 Individual Speedway Championship at Oslo/Norway 28-29 July - European Moto2, Superstock 600 and Talent Cup at Aragon/Spain 28-29 July - European Open Endurance Cup at Dijon/France 28-29 July - European Supersport 300 Cup at Grobnik/Croatia 28-29 July - EMX Quad at Stelpe/Latvia

The 3,500 spectators, who attended the European Sidecar Championship Final at Werlte in North Germany, were treated to an exciting evening of close racing, although the meeting did take a little longer than originally scheduled. Despite extensive track watering during the preceding week, the very hot and humid conditions made it difficult for the organising club to maintain an ideal race surface as the meeting progressed. Following a discussion between the riders and the FIM Europe Jury members, additional track grading and watering sessions were added to the night’s schedule and this enabled the riders to race at speeds approx 120 km/h on the 540 metre oval. With each of the 12 Sidecar teams competing in four qualifying heats – before earning their place in one of two Finals (B and A) – racing was always going to be hard and fast. With the winner and second placed rider from

From left to right: FIM Europe President Dr Wolfgang Srb, EMX65 Champion Brando Rispoli, EMX85 champion Camden Mc Lellan, Youthstream Vice President David Luongo. All photos ©Youthstream The FIM Motocross World Championship was in Loket for the MXGP of Czech Republic but crowning champions are the classes of EMX85 and EMX65 along with the Czech round of EMX300 presented by FMF Racing. Taking the title as 2018 European Champion was Camden Mc Lellan in EMX85 and Brando Rispoli in EMX65 while Mike Kras won the Czech round of EMX300 presented by FMF Racing. The Loket circuit provided epic conditions for the riders with overnight rain watering the track perfectly. The EMX classes took advantage of the conditions with amazing racing in front of the thousands of motocross fans lining the massive hillsides. Racing was over two days, with the first action being completed on Saturday, while Sunday hosted the deciding