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The 23rd FIM Europe Congress in Rome (Italy) hosted the 11th edition of Road Safety Conference, which traditionally deals with the most important and updated topics of the matter. In the latest years, the Road Safety Conference dealt with road accidents, industry responses and initiatives, the systems to improve Road Safety, traumatic injuries and first aid, 2 wheeler behaviour and safety, roadside barriers and crash tests, and devices derived from track, such as airbag for motorcyclists. Last year, the Road Safety Conference dealt with themes related with the development of electronics and technology. All these issues can be seen on FIM-Europe website: http://www.fim-europe.com/road-safety-conference/ The main focus at this year’s conference dealt with Sharing the road with Robots: When Motorcycle Meets Automation. The theme of this year raised a lot of interest with the presentations of high level experts. The presence of European Parliament Member Mr Wim van de Camp has also been highly

In the weekend from Saturday 22nd  to Sunday 23rd July, the follow­ing European races will be held: 22-23 July - CEV Repsol, Moto2  & European Talent Cup (in the photo) at Estoril/Portugal 22-23 July - European Road Racing Hill Climb at Petite Hebergement/France 22-23 July - EMX 65 & 85 at Loket/Czech Republic 22-23 July - Bajas European Championship at Ruse/Bulgaria 22-23 July - European Cross Country Cup at Kegums/Latvia 22-23 July -   European Pairs Speedway Championship at Zarnovika/Slovakia 22-23 July -  Vintage Road Racing European Championship at Anderstorp/Sweden

During the 23rd FIM Europe Congress, which was held in Rome at the Hilton Airport Hotel, the General Assembly and the Road Safety Conference were broadcasted in live-streaming. The two full videos are now freely available on FIM Europe YouTube Channel at the following links: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhEYXYP0ykg  for the General Assembly and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dDY8UzQ0t4&t=3037s for the Road Safety Conference.

The games of the 31st edition of European Motoball Championship will be held  in France, at Camaret and Valreas and will start on July 27th, to continue until August 1st. All the games will be streamed live on www.promotoball.ru A video has been issued, for the promotion of the live-streaming. “Thousands fans, sixty players, six Countries, two stadiums and only one champion”, is the claim. The link of the video is as follows: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlreXAKax08

Artem Laguta won the second SEC round in Güstrow, Germany, in front of Andzejs Lebedevs and Krzysztof Kasprzak. The first German fans went into the stadium only a moment after the gates opening, but campers popular in speedway world were staying near the stadium the day before. In the first series the wild card Kai Huckenbeck, who was third in Güstrow last year, won his first race. His second heat made a lot of noise on the stands too, because oatn the last corner he passed Andrey Kudryashov. Russian Artem Laguta won his first and second race with huge advantage, which pushed him forward in the general standings. In heat 9 Laguta faced two other favourites for the whole tournnament victory. Andzejs Lebedevs and Vaclav Milik did a beautiful fight. At the end the Latvian was the fastest and passed from tihrd to first position. The first rider to win

This weekend the track of Güstrow, in Germany, is going to host the second final of the European Individual Speedway Championship. The first final was at the Motorena of Torun, in Poland, where Jarosław Hampel started as a wild card and won in front of Vaclav Milik and Andzejs Lebedevs. The final was held in bad weather conditions: the organizers had to cancel the practice due to rainfall. Luckly, the track was good enough to start the competition at 19:00. At last, fans watched an exciting show. The first heat showed how important Speedway European Championship really is for riders. Russian Grigorij Laguta, from the second gate, did not manage to control the pressure and broke the tape. Therefore, Paweł Przedpełski had a chance to start in his hometown in SEC. At the end, he finished the race second, behind Artem Laguta. In heat 3, the spectators saw a beautiful

In the weekend from Saturday 15th  to Sunday 16th July, the follow­ing European races will be held: 15 July - European Individual Speedway at Güstrow/Germany

This weekend the Circuit de la Comunitat Valenciana Ricardo Tormo is hosting the fourth round of the FIM CEV Repsol. In Moto2™, Eric Granado (Promoracing, photo1) earned a double victory and in the European Talent Cup Álex Toledo (Cradle of Champions, photo2) got on the top step of the podium for the first time. In Moto2™, Eric Granado (Promoracing) took a double win at a circuit where he always performs well and where he won last season. The first race of the Moto2™ European Championship was stopped on the first lap after a fall involving Xavier Cardelús (Team Stylobike) and Marc Luna (Team Wimu CNS), while Héctor Garzó (Team Wimu CNS) was heading the race. Once the race - reduced to 12 laps - restarted, the Team Wimu CNS rider once again took the lead, followed by Ricky Cardús (Team Stylobike), Lukas Tulovic (Forward Junior Team), Eric Granado (Promoracing), Dimas

The track of Tayac, in France, hosted the final of the Sidecar European Championship, which caught the attention of around 1000 spectators. The meeting was held with the excellent work of the club staff that permitted a great Final. The weather was hot, in a sunny, partially cloudy day. All the heats were interesting and in the whole day there were two crashes with no serious injuries for the riders and their passengers. William  Matthijssen - Sandra Mollema from Netherlands are the European Sidecar Champions for second time in a row. The victory was not very easy for the Dutch team because during the Final A they had a close fight with the German Team of Markus Brandhofer and Tim Scheunemann, who finished in the second position. Third place for the German Team of Markus Venus and Markus Heiss. Full results on FIM Europew website: http://www.fim-europe.eu/events/398

Today the second day of the Enduro European Championship Round 2 was held in Paikuse, Estonia and the overall victory was taken by the young Italian rider Matteo Pavoni (KTM, photo1) who also won the Junior E1 class. Matteo Pavoni The weather was very favourable for enduro riding today as well – it rained slightly at night and in the morning, most of the day was cloudy and the heat did not frighten the riders. “I had a very good day today. I made no mistakes and had no technical problems“, Pavoni said at the finish line. “Winning is a fantastic feeling!“ Enduro European Championship Round 2 Paikuse 08.-09.07.2017. Rannar Uusna. The local rider from the class Senior E3 Rannar Uusna (KTM - photo2) on the other hand did not have so good a day as yesterday. He took the fifth place in his class on the second day and