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With the 2016 European Sporting Season just ended and the new one approaching, we have asked Martin de Graaff, FIM Europe 1st Deputy President and Chairman of the Sporting Council, to highlight the main achievements of all disciplines. “The successful 2016 season is a result of a good cooperation among all involved people and organisations”, stated Martin de Graaff. “A number of 9 hard working FIM Europe commissions and volunteers are busy with regulations, calendars and running of all events. “With the help of promoters, federations, organisers and FIM Europe staff members the activities took place in many European countries. And the number of participants and events is increasing. “In Road Racing the combination of FIM Europe events with FIM races is important for the European Championship. The European Superbike and Moto2 in the CEV Repsol competition ended this year with exiting races. Moto2 will be unchanged in 2017. The

The Entry List of the 2017 European Superstock Championship has been released.

In this issue, all the updates about the FIM Europe activities and in particular, Road Safety initiatives, the Sporting Commissions and the Management Council at Fiumicino, the Extraordinary General Assembly at Berlin, the Course in Motorcycle Management at the University of Rome and a Focus on the Track Racing Commission.

FIM Europe has issued the Sporting Calendar of all the European Championships for the 2017 season. The Calendar has been published on FIM Europe website at the following link: http://www.fim-europe.com/fim-europe-2017-calendar/

The annual meeting of founders and members of Alpe Adria Motorcycle Union AAMU was held at Opatija, in Croatia, at the presence of the President of the Croatian Federation Mr. Stjepan Persin. FIM Europe Vice-President Martin de Graaff was present too, and brought the greetings of President Dr. Wolfgang Srb, wishing all the best for everybody’s work. The Road Racing commission, after a confrontation with the Management Board of AAMU, adopted the decision that from 2017 the former promoter will no longer follow the Road Racing Championship and Alpe Adria Road Racing Commission will continue its job. On behalf of all members of AARRC the warmest thanks to the Promoter for the collaboration of the latest three years, without excluding future new agreements. Technical and sporting rules were defined, too,  while the calendar will be confirmed within the next few weeks. In the other Sports Commissions of Enduro, Trial and

All the 2016 Champions in Road Racing, Motocross and Supermoto from the Balkan as well as the Bulgarian Championship. All photos by Plamen Kodrov, LAP.bg The meeting of the Management Council of the Balkan Motorcycle Union (BMU) was held on Saturday at Hotel Moskva in Sofia. The 2016 results of the various Championships as well as the rules and calendars of the Balkan Championships for 2017 have been approved. BMU President Bogdan was unanimously re-elected for another term of five years (2017 - 2021). Also elected: the members of the Management Council and the various Commissions (Road Racing, Motocross, SuperMoto, Enduro and Baja as well as MotoClassic. The BMU and Bulgarian Prizegiving Ceremony took place on Sunday afternoon in the presence of the Champions, families and friends in front of a big media attendance. A special plaque was given to Mr Rumen Petkov, the Chairman of the Organizing Committee "Grand Prix

FIM Europe has its new website. Completely renewed in its design, it is landed on the innovative, easy-to-use Wordpress platform maintaining all its contents and being even enriched. Visually appealing, it has been designed to generate a prompt positive impression and to invite visitors to surf from one page to another. The good use of colour, graphics and high-quality photos helps viewers to focus on FIM Europe message. Every component of the new website works quickly and correctly, because the aim was to create pages easy to read, to navigate and to understand. The new FIM Europe has been optimized for mobile visitors thanks to responsive graphics, which “sense” the screen resolution of the device loading the website and “respond” by resizing the content to best fit those dimensions, thus encouraging greater consultation and usability for its users everywhere. The new website is also more "social media friendly", so the

Dr Wolfgang Srb with the three candidates to the FMI Presidence, a few minutes before the start of the FMI General Assembly. From the left, Giovanni Copioli, who was elected as new President of FMI, Andrea Vignozzi and Fabio Larcieri FIM Europe President Dr Wolfgang Srb was a first-order guest today at the FMI General Assembly for the election of the new President of the Italian Federation. Dr Srb received a special award by FMI outgoing President Paolo Sesti, for his activity in the world of motorcycling. Dr Wolfgang Srb during his speech “From 1996, when Paolo Sesti became president of the FMI, Italy has really being living a story of innovation, passion, motorcycles and riders. In 1996 Valentino Rossi started winning, and he still does, and Italian riders are strong in many disciplines: besides road racing, especially in motocross, with Tony Cairoli and Kiara Fontanesi, and with Motocross of Nations in Italy, where  “Nessun Dorma” by Pavarotti was

The European SuperEnduro was held in the context of the Maxxis World Championship at Cracow (Poland). In the FIM Europe class, Mike Hartmann (Husqvarna, in the photo) got his tittle defence off to a winning start with the overall victory. Placing second in race one to Thomas Hostinsky (SVK-Husqvarna) and then taking victory in the second and final race gave him the top step of the podium. Despite a race one win, third in race two dropped Hostinsky back to second overall on the night. With a 4-2 scorecard, Marcel Teucher(D-KTM) completed the top three.

The meeting of the FIM Europe Management Council was held today in Fiumicino, near Rome (Italy). Among the topics that have been discussed were the Report of the President, the Report of the Secretary General Alessandro Sambuco, Sporting as well as Non-Sporting questions (Martin de Graaff and Silvio Manicardi) and the Report of the Treasurer Michal Sikora. “Today’s meeting was one of the most important of the whole year, as the Sporting season 2016 was analysed as well as changes to the Sporting rules and the 2017 calendars were approved”, FIM Europe President Dr Wolfgang Srb stated. From the left Silvia Monatti, Rodolfo Romeo, Juhani Halme, Michal Sikora, Martin de Graaff, Alessandro Sambuco, Dr Wolfgang Srb, Michel Turk,  Nina Birjukova, Jean Marc Desnues, Silvio Manicardi and Jan Stovicek “The Working Group on ‘Minimum Age in International Motorsport’ has produced excellent results, which have been the basis for the decision at the recently held FIM