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In the weekend from Friday 16th to Sunday 18th September, the follow­ing European races will be held: 16-18 September - FIM Europe Supersport Cup at Lausitzring/Germany16-18 September - Honda European Junior & Women’s European Cup at Lausitzring/Germany  17 September - Individual Speedway European Championship at Rybnik/Poland   17-18 September - Supermoto S2 European Championship at Castelletto di Branduzzo/Italy  

From the left, Alberto Rinaldelli, FMI Secretary General, Dr Wolfgang Srb, FIM Europe President, Alessandro Sambuco, FIM Europe Secretary General, Emanuele Isidori, Professor of Social Pedagogy at University of Rome “Foro Italico”, Carlo Pernat and Francesco Guidotti, team managers Today at the Council Chamber "Giulio Marinozzi" of the University of Studies of Rome “Foro Italico”, the Advanced Course in Motorcycling Management, organized by the Foundation Foro Italico in collaboration with FIM Europe has been presented to a large media audience. 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 main reason why the Course was launched is that recruitment, selection and development of sporting talent in Motorcycling are prioritaire for European National Motorcycle Federations. The principal actors in the process of creating the Champions of tomorrow are certainly the Federations themselves but, in the light of the recent economic

FIM Europe mourns Danijel Vastag’s departure: Secretary for Sport in the Motorcycle Association of Serbia - MSS - since 2008 and a member of the FIM Europe Marketing Commission since 2014, he was born in Zemun  on November 4th 1982. He died unexpectedly yesterday.   We would like to remember him through the description of himself that he had given when he applied to the FIM Europe Marketing Commission, during the FIM Europe Congress in Cracow, in 2014: “From the early days I was interested in sports and I coached water polo, karate, basketball. Motorsport has always been a love for me. After the death of my good friend on a motorcycle I decided to focus more on motorsport and motorcycle road safety. I started to work in the Motorcycle Association of Serbia in 2008 with a great team of people to deal with the safety of motorcyclists on roads and motorsport in general. I’m still in

Above #16 James Shanes (ACU) and #2 Christian Huelsorst (DMSB) The Astra Grass Track Clubs hosting of the 2016 FIME European Individual Grass Track Final was certainly a very competitive event that was staged on a very hot and sunny Autumn day at the ultra-fast Swingfield circuit near Folkestone in the South East of England. The 3,000 spectators witnessed some very exciting racing with riders not giving a centimetre during the 12 qualifying heats. Once all the points had been totalled, the field of the top 16 point scoring riders was allocated to the three (C, B and A) Finals.With two ‘last chance’ places available for the winner and second place riders (in the B Final), to qualify through to the all-important A Final, racing was again extremely competitive with Josef Franc (ACCR) and 19 years old James Shanes (ACU) finally managing to gain these two important places. This enabled

  Santa Pod Racers Club along with Santa Pod had, as usual, organized a European Championship final in a brilliant way. An absolute amazing race that would finalize the championship for all classes by the final round of each class. Two new European Championship records were applied for:New ET 6,974 Super Street Bike by Steve Venables (photo1)New ET 6,978 in Pro Stock Bike by Fredrik Fredlund.Super Street Bike winner: Garry Bowe, United KingdomSuper Twin Top Fuel winner: Martjin De Haas (photo2), The NetherlandsPro Stock Bike winner: Fredrik Fredlund, FinlandTop Fuel Bike winner: Filippos Papafilippou, Greece Championship winners:Super Street Bike FIM Europe Cup1 - SSB1 -  Garry Bowe - UK,     ACU, Suzuki     - 281 p        2 - SSB3 - Steve Venables - UK,    ACU, Suzuki 1300cc - 275 p        3 - SSB2 - Rick Stubbins - UK,    ACU, Suzuki Hayabusa -260 p             Pro Stock

The podium of the European S2 Supermoto. From the left: Peter Aicher, Austrian MX Chairman, Diego Monticelli, Giovanni Bussei, Petr Vorlicek, Hans Danzinger, Head of Wachauring/Melk, Dr. Wolfgang Srb, FIM Europe President. In warm and sunny conditions and many spectators around the track, TM Racing rider Diego Monticelli took the victory in S2. Race1Under a clear blue sky the first race on the day started in S2 class. When the warm up laps started, bad luck seemed to hunt TM Racing rider Diego Monticelli again, as his TM wouldn’t start at the grid and he had to go to the waiting zone again. Luckily  his mechanic was able to start the bike and as last Monticelli could start his warm up laps. At the start it was TMS Honda rider Milan Sitniansky who took the holeshot followed by SBD TM rider Giovanni Bussei, Monticelli and Suzuki Grau rider Petr Vorlicek.

The fourth of five rounds of the European Bajas Championship was held last weekend at Idanha-a-Nova, in Portugal, together with the World Championship. The event was held in two nice, hot days, with temperatures up to 34 degrees. It was a well organized race, with a good track. After two racing days, with no accidents and no problems for the FIM Europe riders, in the Motorcycles class the winner was Pedro Bianchi Prata, from Portugal, on Honda CRF 450, in front of his compatriot Rui Costa on Husqvarna TE 510 (in photo 1). Podium for Italian Fabrizio Fasolini on Honda CRF 450X.In the Quad class the win went to Oleksandr Bashynskyi, from Ukraine, on Polaris Scrambler. Second position for Bogdan Zyrin from Bulgaria, on Polaris Scrambler, too. In the UTV Class Nikolay Gochev from Bulgaria won on a Polaris RZR 1000 in team with Todor Hristov. Second position for Tadeusz

At the fast race circuit of the Wachauring in Melk (Austria) the fifth and penultimate round of the S2 Championship is held this weekend. Under clear blue skies and warm conditions the spectators came already to the circuit to enjoy the free practices and qualification sessions from the terraces. In S2 it was Italian TM Racing rider Diego Monticelli (in the photo) who set the fastest time, like he did in the last round in Poland. After an unfortunate race in Poland, TM Racing rider Diego Monticelli showed good speed in the first free practice, setting the fastest time (1:20:599) in lap 11. The gap to the second fastest rider TMS Honda rider Milan Sitniansky was only 00:097 of a second so nothing is said for the rest of the weekend. TM SBD rider Giovanni Bussei set the third time and was not far away from the fastest riders. Championship

In the weekend from Friday 9th to Sunday 11th September, the follow­ing European races will be held: 9-10 September - Bajas European Championship at Idanha-a-Nova/Portugal 9-11 September - Dragbike European Championship (Supertwin Bike, Top Fuel Bike and ProStock Bike) and Superstreet Bike Cup at Santa Pod/United Kingdom  9-11 September - Supermoto S2 European Championship at Melk/Austria 10 September - European U21 Individual Speedway Champ at Lamothe-Landerron/France  11 September - European Individual Grass Track Championship at Swingfield/United Kingdom  

Above British Masters champion James Shanes (#4) and reigning European Champion Jannick de Jong (#2) in action at last year’s Final at Stapholst in Holland - Photo courtesy of Jesper Veldhuizen (www.baansportfansite.nl)   Eighteen of Europe's top solo Grass Track riders head to Kent this weekend for the European Individual Grass Track Final, where one of them will be crowned 2016 European Champion. Astra Grass Track Club will host Europe's Blue Riband event at their super-fast Swingfield track, situated six miles north of Folkestone, with the field headed by the defending European Champion Jannick de Jong (Holland). The Flying Dutchman has dominated this event for the past three years and is looking to make this his fourth successive European title. De Jong will be joined by fellow countrymen Dirk Fabriek (three times runner-up), Henry van der Steen, Mark Helmhout, Sjoerd Rozenberg, Lars Zandvliet and seventeen year old Dutch teenage sensation Romano