Enduro

In the photo, the European Extreme Enduro Race “Battle of Vikings” - @Race Magazine In the weekend from Saturday 14th to Sunday 15th January, the follow­ing European race will be held: 15 January - European Extreme Enduro Cup at Bradford, Leeds/Great Britain.

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.

In the weekend from Saturday 10th to Sunday 11th December, the follow­ing European races will be held: 10 December - Super Enduro Cup at Cracow (Poland)

Antoine Basset, winner of the overall in the second day - Photo @Robert Pairan In the second day of the Enduro European Championship in Brioude (France) the overall was won by French rider Antoine Basset on his KTM in front of the Brit Brad Freeman. Freeman was leading in the overall up to the last special test: “I hit a tree with my shoulder and crashed,” stated the junior rider, who however won the Junior-E1-class and keeps the overall lead in the championship. Contrarily to Day1, there were less Junior riders at the top of the overall: Freeman was the only one up to the sixth place, where we can find his classmate Nicolas Pellegrinelli.Third place in the overall for Czech Jaromir Romancik ahead of the reigning champion Tom Sagar and of Romain Dumontier, and this is also the podium of E2-class.Guest starter Jérémy Carpentier from France won the E1-class.

Mike Hartmann is the winner of the SuperEnduro European Championship. Photo by Robert Pairan The German rider Mike Hartmann conquered the first title in the SuperEnduro-European Championship at the indoor-event in Lodz (Poland).The GasGas-rider won both heats in front of the Austrian Lars Enöckl on KTM.Third in the championship finished  the local rider Jakub Lukaszczyk with Sherco.The event was held together with the first round of the World SuperEnduro Championship.“The long journey was worth it and the luck was on our side. Thanks to Gas Gas Germany especially to Marc Haftka and my mechanic Ingo”, said the new European Champion Mike Hartmann.Full results on FIM Europe website: http://www.fim-europe.eu/events/152 The podium - Photo by Robert Pairan

David Abgrall (Photo @Robert Pairan) Today at the final round of the Enduro European Championship in Rüdersdorf (Berlin) the new European champions were crowned. Big winner was the Brit Tom Sagar, who had already won the championship of E2-class yesterday: being the fastest rider of the second day, he also won the title in the Overall-class. And he had to step up the podium for the third time, when the British gained the third place in the team-championship.In the E3-class the second place behind Rony Nikander was enough for the Swedish Martin Sundin on his Husqvarna to win the championship. Sundin finished the race three positions ahead of his rival Radek Toman.In the three junior-classes the first title was decided by a failure during the first course: Patrick Markvart, who had taken the lead in the Junior-E1-class yesterday (when Pellegrinelli did not finish the race because of an accident)  had to

Maurizio Micheluz  (Photo @Robert Pairan) The conditions for the Enduro-European-Championship in Rüdersdorf (East of Berlin) today have been perfect: the weather was not too warm but sunny enough to provide  grip to the riders. The three courses of over 60 kms foresaw three special-tests which meant more than 1 hour test-time.The first title was decided in the morning, when the Yamaha of the E1 rider Jonathan Rossé from Switzerland had an electric failure in the very first test. Rossé could not finish and gave the Italian Maurizio Micheluz the chance to defend his title in the E1-Class. Which he did, even if local rider and wild card Edward Hübner gained the win of the race in front of the Husqvarna-rider Micheluz.Also in the E2-Class we already have the new European champion: the Brit Tom Sagar did not only win the E2-Class, but the Overall as well. With this result the KTM-rider

Tom Sagar (Photo @Robert Pairan) More than 130 riders from the Enduro European Championship took the start on Friday evening with the prologue of the final competition in the German city of Rüdersdorf (east of capital Berlin). Inside the industrial museum the parc ferme was hosted inside the historical buildings und the track of the Test was along the Buelow canal.It became dark very early and the veteran Werner Müller from Austria was the first to set the best time, which hold for more than one hour.On the tough track the old champion had no problems, but the respect of the big crowd watching this test.At the end was it the Brit Tom Sagar to set the very fastest time among all the riders with a gap of 3,6 seconds on Jaromir Romancic from Czech Republik and the French Rudy Cotton.But this test was only the prelude to two days of

Maurizio Micheluz, the Italian defending champion The final of the Enduro Championship will be held from October 30th to November 1st in the German city of Rüdersdorf (in the east of Berlin). The start is scheduled on Friday evening with a prologue. From 17:00 clock, the participants of the European Championship will compete there in pairs against each other. The race for the two days foresees three courses on the 62 kms track, with three different special stages. One of them is right in the paddock. The start will be on Saturday at 8:00 and on Sunday from 7:30 already. The main focus is the fight for the title in the Overall standings: the fastest rider of all classes is the Brit Tom Sagar. But the defending champion Maurizio Micheluz was suffering due to an injury in the last race and is he now on form again. We should not

Despite best efforts made by FIM Europe and for reasons outside of its control, it is with great regret that the event in Piatra Neamt (ROU) scheduled on 27-28th June as third round of the European Enduro Extreme Cup, has been cancelled. The updated calendar has now been changed to the following: