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The fourth round of the ICGP Championship took place at the Grobnik circuit in Croatia. Free practice on Thursday saw a persistent rain throughout the day and only few riders took part. Timed practices: In 350cc Mike Edwards (ACU) leader of the championship snatched the pole position followed by Guillaune Foureau (FFM) and Jean Paul Lecointe (FFM) Richard Peers Jones (ACU) and Wolfgang Voelk (DMSB) complete the top 5. In 250cc Stefan Tennstadt (DMSB) takes the pole followed by Don Gilbert (ACU) and Colin Sleigh (ACU), Mark Rogers (ACU) and Grant Boxhall (MMA) completed the top 5. Race 1 - In a sunny day Peers Jones does the hole shot followed by Mike Edwards and Guillaume Foureau, Peter Linden and Wolfgang Voelk. Behind Stefan Tennstadt on the 250 Rotax Bakker takes the lead of the 250cc class followed by Colin Sleigh and Don Gilbert. Peter Linden and Eric Saul are

The second raceday at Grobnik, in Croatia, started windy and cloudy weather. Supermono Cup (photo1) In race1 Austrian Josef Frauenschuh had a very good start and was battling with his compatriot Lukas Wimmer for the first place. In the first corner the Dutchman Jerry van de Bunt was fourth, but managed to pass German Johann Karl in the first lap and kept the third place for the rest of the race despite the problems he had with the clutch. After three laps the positions at the front were settled and the distance between the riders was growing lap by lap. Behind them there was a tough but fair fight among three riders on a HKR EVO 2 for the sixth position. In the end German Dennis Bayreuther managed to be the best Rookie for the fourth time. On Sunday Race2 had totally different weather conditions. Frauenschuh had a good start again

This weekend the last round of European Stocksport 300 is being held at Grobnik, in Croatia. The 2017 European title has already been won by Daniel Blin, from Poland. In qualifying practice, the fastest rider was Vojtech Schwarz (photo1) followed by Lenhart Ulbel (photo2), both on Yamaha bikes and Gasper Hudovernik on KTM, who is a very young rider from Slovenia. He is taking part to a race for the first time and was very competitive from the beginning. His performance during the first race was also very awesome. After a bad start he followed the field with a big gap. During the race he showed a perfect performance. With his fastest lap, 8 tenth of seconds faster than the winner Vojtech Schwarz, he impressed spectators and officials. Race 1 saw Vojtech Schwarz (ACCR) winning in front of Lenhart Ulbel (AMF) and Gasper Hudovernik (AMZS, photo3). During this weekend also

In the weekend from Friday 8th to Sunday 10th September, the follow­ing European races will be held: 8-9 September – European Baja Championship at Nova/Portugal 8-10 September – European Stocksport 300 Cup, International Classic Grand Prix and Supermono at Rijeka/Croatia 8-10 September – Dragbike European Championship and Superstreet Bike Cup at Santa Pod/Great Britain 8-10 September – EMX 150 at Assen/The Netherlands Martjin de Haas © Ivan Sansom and Rose Hughes

On September 12th, at 12.00 at the Council Chamber “Giulio Marinozzi” of the University of Studies of Rome “Foro Italico”, a press conference will be held to present the International Advanced Course in Motorcycling Management, organized by the Foundation Foro Italico in collaboration with FIM Europe. The participation to the press conference is free and open to all interested. The course is a pilot project of FIM Europe with the intention of perfecting a format to make available to the European Motorcycle Federations and their respective Universities. The educational activities of the Course will be aimed at acquiring specific knowledge for the formation of a professional able to work effectively as Manager of a Motorcycle Team. Above, from the left, Alessandro Sambuco FIM Europe Secretary General, Dr Wolfgang Srb, FIM Europe President and Jos Driessen, Member of the FIM Board of Directors, during a meeting with the students last year In particular, the lessons of the

The 2017 Motocross of European Nations saw 17 teams from 16 different countries come together to race in Gdansk, Poland this weekend. Today marked the second of the 2 day event. An Opening Ceremony started the morning with FIM Europe President Dr. Wolfgang Srb, Major of Gdansk Mr. Pawel Adamowicz and Mr. Michal Sikora, Vice President of the Polish Automobile and Motorcycling Federation PZM, all welcoming the participants. After a wet Saturday the weather made a change for the better Sunday to provide great racing and at the conclusion of which it was the French Federation celebrating as their team took the MXoEN winner’s trophy while the Women of the Netherlands celebrated their Women’s Motocross of European Nations victory. Motocross of European Nations 125cc/250cc In the first race of 125cc and 250cc Ukraine’s Volodymyr Tarasov led the first 2 laps but had France’s Mathys Boisrame and Germany’s Tom Koch behind him.

The European Baja Championship was held this weekend at Szczecin Dobra, in Poland. 14 riders took part to the event: 5 in the Bike class and 9 in the Quad class, in front of around 1000 spectators. In Day1 after the Special Stage the riders continued the race with 282,84 km long race day within two Special Stages (SS2 and SS3). The track was not too dusty, which might cause troubles during a race. From time to time during the day it rained, so the track was a bit muddy, too. In the Bikes Class the fastest rider was Adam Tomiczek (3h03’40’’) from Poland, 27 seconds ahead of his compatriot Maciej Giemza. Third position for Jakub Patek (3h19’19’’) from Poland, too. All of them were racing on KTM. In the Quad Class the fastest rider was Polish Arkadiusz Lindner (3h40’21’’), ahead of Andrzej Pieron (4h21’11’’). Third step of the podium for Przemyslaw

After the cancellation of the round of the SM Junior and S3 classes in Sosnova, an experimental double race weekend was made for the first time in the European Supermoto Championship. The weather was hot and there were around 1.000 spectators. The two days event hosted the standard free practices and qualifying, but also 2 heats per day scoring points for FIM Europe. The venue at Kjustendil, Bulgaria, is an all asphalt facility and the good weather contributed to the nice 2 days of Supermoto racing. The timed practices in both days were won by Kristian Ivanov (SMJ, KTM, photo1)) and Hakan Halmi (S3, KTM, photo2). Day 1 SMJ - The Bulgarian Viktor Neychev (KTM) was leading from start to finish the 15 laps of the heat, leaving the championship leader Kristian Ivanov (BMF, KTM) in second position with an enormous gap of 20 secs. But in Race 2, Neychev

On a really fine racetrack at Lokomotive Stadion of Daugavpils, in Latvia 16 young rider under 21 years, all nearly on the same level, signed a spectacular final with close and hard race. The races were performed in front of 3.500 spectators, who in the end could see the rider Robert Lambert from Great Britain become the new European champion, with Bartosz Smektale from Polen and Andreas Lyager from Denmark immediately behind him. Russian rider Gleb Chuganov finished at the 4th place after a rerun with Andreas Lyager from Denmark. Full results on FIM Europe website: http://www.fim-europe.eu/events/445        

The fifth and last round of the European Hill Climb Championship was held at Spoleto, in Italy. Sunday’s race started with perfect weather and very good track conditions. The morning started with two practice heats, with 17 riders at the start. At 2 p.m. according to the timetable the first race started with 250 class. The winner was Italian Marco Queirolo on Aprilia in front of his compatriot Guido Testoni (photo1) on Honda and of Belgian Bernhard Depierreux on Yamaha. In the Supersport class the winner was Daniele Stolli, from Italy, on Honda, in front of Yuri Storniolo and Filippo Parolin. In Supermoto open class the fastest in race one was Italian Andrea Majola on TM (photo2) ahead of Daniel Bailo and Philippe Bongard. Also the Superbike class was won by an Italian rider: Fabrizio Lanutti on Honda in front of Nicholas Riccardo Rovelli and Francesco Maria Piva. The second