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The city of Culitzsch (Germany) hosted the 4th round of EMX65 and 85cc for the North-West zone. After the qualifying races of yesterday, the young riders today faced two races for both classes. Sunday morning started with warm up, on a very wet track but with sunshine and 25°C. EMX85 - In Race1 the Danish rider Mikkel Haarup was again the fastest and was the first to cross the finish line before Dutch Rick Elzinga and Czech Petr Polak. In Race2 we could again see Mikkel Haarup finish in the first place, followed by Christoffer Mills from Great Britain, with German Pit Rickert in third position. In the overall, Haarup wins before Mills and Elzinga.EMX65 - In Race1 Constantin Piller won in front of Simon Laengenfelder and Cato Nickel, all from Germany.  In Race2 Constantin Piller managed to win again in front of Simon Laengenfelder, with Dutch Kay Karssemakers in

  Emanuele Pusceddu took victory in today’s third round race of the 2015 Pata European Junior Cup, powered by Honda moving up to second place in the overall standings with his third podium of the season. Today’s scheduled nine-lap race with 29 identically-prepared Honda CBR650F machines, was red-flagged early on when a number of riders crashed at Imola’s final chicane – often the scene of dramatic racing incidents.When the track was cleared, a six-lap dash followed in which Pusceddu dominated, beating fellow Italian Paolo Grassia by almost three seconds, with series leader and winner of the opening two rounds, Javier Orellana, finishing third. In the FIM Europe Women’s European Cup race, Hungarian Viktoria Kis took the victory, coming home in 19th position overall after Anastassia Kovalenko of Estonia and New Zealand’s Avalon Biddle were caught up in earlier crashes. «Today the CBR was fantastic!», Emanuele Pusceddu stated. «The setting was

The fourth round of EMX 65cc and EMX 85cc, NW zone is taking place this weekend in Culitzsch (Germany). On a well prepared track, and with perfect weather, the free training, qualifying training, and qualifying races were performed by 79 riders. In the EMX 85cc the pole position for the Sunday’s races went to Bastian Boegh Damm from Denmark; second place for Mikkel Haarup from Denmark and third place for Anton Nagy from Sweden. In the qualifying race of the EMX 65cc class, the pole position went to Kay Karssemakers, from the Netherlands, before Nick Domann from Germany, and Simon Laengenfelder. Complete result lists on FIM Europe website: www.fim-europe.eu/events/37  

Talavera de la Reina (Spain) is hosting this weekend the European Motocross in the classes 125, 250 and 300cc. Race1 of all classes was held while tomorrow the riders will fight for the podium of Race2.In EMX125 Josiah Natzke, from New Zealand, won in front of Spanish Jorge Prado Garcia, leader of general standings, both on KTM. Third position for French Maxime Renaux on Yamaha. In EMX250 the winner was French Maxime Desprey on Kawasaki, before Belgian Damon Graulus, on Yamaha, with Nick Kouwenberg, from Holland, to complete the podium on his Honda. The leader of general standings after the first two events, British Adam Sterry, finished 11th on his KTM. In EMX300 the leader of the championship standing Belgian Yentel Martens conquered victory in front of British Lewis Gregory and Italian Marco Maddii. Full results on FIM Europe website: www.fim-europe.eu/events/38  

Local rider Emanuele Pusceddu took pole position ahead of the 9-lap, fifth round Pata European Junior Cup race scheduled for tomorrow at 3:05pm at Imola’s Autodomo Internazionale Enzo e Dino Ferrari. The soon-to-become 19 year old from Rome will be joined on the front row by fellow Italian Matteo Ciprietti and Frenchman Guillaume Raymond , who crashed uninjured at Turn 15 in the final moments of Qualifying 2. Current series leader Javier Orellana will start the encounter from row 3 (7th place).

Round 4 of the FIM Europe Superstock 600cc Championship was decided in favour of after a race long dual saw Toprak Razgatlioglu (Kawasaki Puccetti Racing) defeat at the last moment wildcard entry Roberto Mercandelli (Roberto Mercandelli Team) to victory by 4 seconds at the conclusion of an epic 12 lap encounter. The Turk who extends his lead in the series after his fourth victory of the year, set a new lap record as he gave chase to Federico Caricasulo (Pata Honda Junior Team), the Italian crashing out on the final lap after swapping places several times with Toprak.Mercandelli benefited from the mistake to grab 2nd ahead of fellow Italian Andrea Tucci (San Carlo Team Italia) who took the final place on the podium at the end of an action packed race.Nicola Morrentino jr, Stefano Casalotti and Luca Vitali completed the top six.The unfortunate Michael Ruben Rinaldi had been running strongly

The European Bajas Championship had its start this weekend in Poland.    In the Moto Class, Rudolf Lhotský from Czech Republic won both manches.  In the Quad class, Damian Rajczyk from Poland won in front of compatriots Jarosław Kalinowski and Bernat Arkadiusz (in the photo) in Race1, while in Race2 Bernat Arkadiusz conquered victory ahead of Jarosław Kalinowski and Kamil Wiśniewski, all from Poland. The winner of Race1 Rajczyk fineshed in fifth position. In the UTV class Graziano Scandola won Race1 in front of Polish Tadeusz Wiśniewski and Italian Giammarco Fossà. In Race2 Italians Scandola and Fossà finished ahead of Wiśniewski.Full results on FIM Europe website: http://www.fim-europe.eu/site/index.php?eid=32

The second ITP European Quadcross Championship was held in the Italian town of Gazzane di Preseglie, with 17 riders. The weathers condition early in the morning were bad and raining but after few hours it was sunny, with 20° C. Because of bad weather the 1st race was held on Saturday late afternoon. The track was well prepared.          Qualification             On Saturday qualification the first position went to the Latvian Edgars Meņģelis, 1,21 sec ahead of the Netherland rider Mike  Van Grinsuen, 0,716 sec in front of Italian rider Andrea Cesari jr.      Race 1             The holeshot went to Andrea Cesari jr, who dominated the first heat for the first 14 laps, but then Latvian Edgars Meņģelis overtook the leader and won with 11 seconds on Andrea Cesari Jr and with 32 seconds on Dutch Mike Van Grinsuen. Race 2      

The second SW Zone European Championship EMX 65/85 came to the Italian town Gazzane di Preseglie with 23 riders in EMX65 and 33 in EMX85. The weather condition early in the morning were bad and raining but after few hours it become sunny +20°C. Because of bad weather 1st races for EMX65/85 were held on Saturday evening.     EMX 85cc             Qualification race saw a podium with riders from three Countries: 1st position for French rider Brian Strubhart Moreau, 8,26 sec ahead of Austrian Marcel Strauffer and 10,74 sec in front of Italian Kevin Cristino.First EMX85 race already from start was dominated by French talent Brian Strubhart Moreau. Second and third position were really close during the all race, but in 12th lap Italian rider Kevin Cristino overtook French rider Thibault Benistant. After 14 laps Brian Strubhart Moreau crossed the finishing line 7,11sec before Kevin Cristino and  11,41

The first round in European Championship NE 65cc and 85cc, and the third round in EMX Open, were held this weekend in Orlyonok (Russia), with 59 riders in three classes on a very well prepared track. EMX 85ccThe pole position went to Timur Petrashin (RUS) in front of compatriot Svyatoslov Pronenko and Vitaliy Makhnu (BLR).The first race in EMX 85cc was won by Timur Petrashin, in front of Svyatoslav Pronenko and Vitaliy Maknou. In the second race Petrashin won again before Pronenko but this time Ivan Khuzhin (RUS) completed the podium.The standing after 2 races: 1) Timur Petrashin RUS 50 points; 2) Svyatoslav Pronenko RUS 44 points;  3) Ivan Khuzhin RUS 38 points.EMX 65 ccIn the Qualifying race Matvey Vopilov got the pole position before Kurban Khaytmetov and Alexey Orlov, all from Russia.The first race Matvey Vopilov is the first below the checkered flag, before Kurban Khaytmetov. Third place for