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The first round of the Road Racing Honda Junior Cup was held today on the Aragorn Motorland track (Spain). Spanish domination with the first five riders coming from Spain. The podium saw in first position Marc Miralles, second position Javier Orellane and third Mika Perez. The race was very well fought with all riders in the first part of the race very close on each other. In the last 5 laps 8 riders switched positions until the final victory of Miralles. Next round is scheduled on the 27th of April in Assen (The Netherlands).    Download here FIM Europe Press Release 027/2014  

The Superstock 600cc Road Racing European Championship started today at the Spanish track of Motorland Aragorn. The victory of this opening round went to Italian Marco Faccani (San Carlo Team Italia Kawasaki) with an impressive display of riding. A group of seven were in the fight for 2nd and 3rd, but at the flag Italian Andrea Tucci (San Carlo Team Italia Kawasaki) and Dutch Wayne Tessels (Wayne’s Racing Team) completed the podium after a thrilling 11 lap race at the very sunny MotorLand Aragon circuit in Spain. Next round is scheduled on the 27th of April in Assen (The Netherlands).    Download here FIM Europe Press Release 026/2014

European Motorcycling mourns for the death of Vincenzo Mazzi, FIM Europe President and one of the founding fathers of the Union Européenne de Motocyclisme (UEM), who passed away yesterday afternoon, 7th of April, in Rome. In almost 50 years dedicated to Motorcycling, the President Mazzi, "Enzo" for the many friends who had the honour to be near him, always hold a prominent role since his appointment as Secretary General of the Italian Motorcycle Federation in 1979, continuously for 20 years, until 1999. From those years he has dedicated each of his energies and all his determination to the European Motorcycling, participating to the foundation of the UEM in 1996, holding since the beginning the position of Secretary General until 2006, when he was elected UEM President for his first mandate. He would have concluded his second mandate the next July in Cracow when, as announced by himself, he would have

The Honda has decided to hold this pre-season training camp, held in Albaida the 22nd and the 23rd March, offering to the riders the opportunity to face better the Championship from the first race in Netherlands. 22 Riders from 10 Countries attended the Training Camp. Download here the FIM Europe Mag 02/2014    

Claudio Porrozzi, well known sporting journalist and responsible for the Road Racing activity of the Italian Motorcycling Federation (FMI), passed away last week. Mr Porrozzi has been also member of the UEM Road Racing Commission from 2006 to 2011. FIM Europe sent its deepest condolences to the Porrozzi family also in name of all European FMNs and of the Road Racing Commission colleagues, who had the luck to experience in many years his human qualities and his sporting competence.    Download here FIM Europe Press Release 024/2014

The overall-victory at the second day of the enduro-european-championship was for Tom Sagar: The British rider had to quit at the first day and had to change the motor of his KTM. But with the 20 points at the second day live becomes a little bit more easy for him: “In the penultimate test I had a crash and lost some time – so I wasn’t sure, if it will be a good end at all.” Second in the overall was his fellow countryman Jamie Lewis in front of the first-day-winner Maurizio Micheluz, who will still lead the championship. Also in the E1-Class Micheluz is leading with his Suzuki, because he won the second time – just in front of the french Kevin Rohmer, who let Jack Rowland with his Husqvarna go onto third place. The E2-Class was the Class of Tom Sagar, who won in front of Jamie Lewis

Belgian Maxime Warenghien (Sherco), German Sascha Neumann (Gas Gas), Finnish Jussi Haapanen (Gas Gas) won respectively the Europe, Junior and Over40 classes in the first round of the 2014 FIM Europe Championship, organized in Pietramurata, near Trento, North-East of Italy. As happened in the competition of the day before, the weather was very good and being the terrain very dry, the scores of the riders lowered a lot. The winner in the top class, who competed with Switzer licence, put a serious option on his victory ending the first lap with only 3 points. The best rider behind him was Italian Luca Cotone (Sherco) , but carried already with 9 mistakes. Then German Franz Kadlec (Beta) with 2 points more. Strong and concentrated as never seen, Warenghien feet down once in the whole second loop and knew in advance he would be the winner. Four points in total meant a

The overall champion from last year, the Italian Maurizio Micheluz, won the first day of the season-opener in Antans, South of Spain. In the last of the three rounds he was the only one which took the steep and direct line with his Suzuki in the extreme-test – and took the win in this way! Second in the overall was the British junior Steve Holcombe on a KTM in front of his fellow-countryman, the European-junior-champion Jack Rowland: Rowland is riding this year in the E1-Class and there he took the second place right behind Micheluz and the Belgian Cedric Cremer. This former European-Champion is now starting with a smaller 250-4-stroke KTM after a years break! The E2-Class of the seniors won Jamie Lewis, the Husqvarna-Team-member an compatriot from Rowland, in front of the two Czechs Ondrej Helmich and Jakub Sefr. The Frenchman Julien Jagu won in front of his TM-Team-Member,

British Dan Peace (Gas Gas) and German Ina Wilde (Gas Gastopped the first podiums in the Youth and Women class respectively, in Pietramurata, near Trento, North-East of Italy. The 23rd European Trial Championship, for the second year, under the name of FIM Europe, started under the best conditions. Nice weather, private area with sections easily reachable by the spectators, and good job for the Top Trial Team, playing for the first time the role of organizer. Two laps and 12 sections, even this year. Among the Women , the beautiful German lady had hard time in having the upper hand on Italian Sara Trentini (Beta). Both at the end of the first lap scored just 6 points and felt the pressure of other two Teutonic girls: Theresa Baulm (Ossa) and Sarah Bauer (Sherco) tied with 2 marks more. Four riders in 2 points, that meant a great equilibrium. But only

BMF informed that the 2nd round of Eastern European Motocross Championship and the 1st round of European Motocross Championship EMX65 and EMX85 SE Zone, which were scheduled for the 4-6th of April 2014 in Gevgelija (FYROM), are cancelled due to important government elections in the country, the local laws and regulations related with the elections, as well the inability to find a suitable replacement date for the event. In addition, FMI informed that the Adria 500 Miles FIM Europe Cup event was rescheduled from 2-3rd of May to the new date of 24-25th of October.     Download here FIM Europe Press Release 019/2014