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CEV Repsol Moto2 European Championship and European Talent Cup: Valencia thrills to the second round of the FIM CEV Repsol The second round of the FIM CEV Repsol this weekend at the Circuit Ricardo Tormo in Valencia did not disappoint and provided some thrilling racing. Edgar Pons had a brilliant weekend in Valencia, dominating the qualifying practice sessions, setting the fastest lap time in the race, securing his first victory of the season and ending up as overall leader of the Moto2™ European Championship. The race was stopped after a multiple fall involving Niki Tuuli (Team Stylobike), Matteo Ferrari (Gresini Laglisse Academy) and Alessandro Zaccone (Promoracing), which was caused by a trail of oil left by Marcel Brenner's machine on the first lap. The Moto2™ race was restarted but without the injured Tuuli on the grid. Once again Pons took the lead followed by Héctor Garzó (CNS Motorsport). The two pulled away followed

EMX 65 / EMX 85 European Championship South West zone and EMX Women's European Championship: Italian round in Gazzane di Preseglie The Galaello track presented as quite demanding for the beginning of the free practices on Saturday morning, due to the heavy rain of the previous days. Thanks to the postponement to the early afternoon and the sunny and windy day both free and qualifying practices could be carried out without particular problems. The EMX 85 qualifying practices were won by Edgar Canet from Spain (group B) and Simone Pavan from Italy (group A), whereas the EMX 65 were won by Filippo Mantovani from Italy (Group B) and Joel Canadas Gonzales from Spain (group A). The EMX women saw as the best rider of the qualifying practices Shana Van der Vlist from Holland ahead of Stephanie Laier from Germany. Sunday started after a rainy night making the track heavier than

EMX 65 / EMX 85 European Championship South East zone and EMX Open European Championship: it’s time for Bulgaria Troyan, Bulgaria, hosted the second round of SE Zone EMX65/85 and first round of EMX OPEN starts. EMX 85 Q-Race Tecsi Laslo was fastest on the start, followed by Marius Popovici, Hristan Georgiev and Luka Kunic. Soon Tecsi had a solitary race until the finish line. Luka Kunic made pressure to Marious Popovici fihting for the third place in front Hristan Georgiev, who managed to make a gap and getting the second position. Winner of Q-Race was Tecsi in front of Georgiev and Popovici. Race-1 At the beginning Luka Kunic lead the race, but soon Laszlo Tecsi took the first position. Behind Luka Kunis was second followed by Hristian Georgiev and Marius Popovichi, fighting for third place. Leader Tecsi made a mistake losing the first position. At the end Kunic won,

SEC Speedway European Championship: Qualifying Round 1 in Croatia The organizers were extremely lucky to escape rain as dark clouds threatened to pour rain on the Croatian track of Milenium stadium, in front of 3.500 spectators. The race was a tough battles between 18 riders from 15 countries. Adrian Miedzinski, Vaclav Milik, Dominik Kubera and Jurica Pavlic Top 4 qualified to the challenge which will be held in Hungary on 25th May.Some big names like Chris Harris or MikkelBech Jensen failed to make it into the two heats after regular part, which was spiced by local superstar Jurica Pavlic who raced both in Last chance and Final, which made his home crowd ecstatic! Polish rider proved their dominance in speedway world and took first and third place; it was Kubera’s first appearance at this track, which he will absolutely remember as he loved racing here tonight. Final results: 1. Adrian

SEC Speedway European Championship: Qualifying Round 2 in Poland Photo credit Jarek Pabijan The meeting was run smoothly on a wellprepared track. The weather conditions had been perfect for a Speedway meeting, so 600 spectators saw a fluent and good meeting. The track staff did a great work and so the meeting was finished within 2:15min. There had been good racing action on the track especially the last heats where packed with racing action. Bartosz Smektala, U21 World Champion 2018, from Poland, was unbeaten up to Heat 22, and fighted hard for the win against David Bellego from FFM, who took the win at the end. Third place was taken by Anders Thomsen from DMU, after he won the Last Chance Heat here in Poznan. And the last Qualifyer for the Euopean Challenge later this season was Andrei Kudriashov from Russia, who was close to the podium during the entire

Trial European Championship: Grattarola, Mempor and Soulier rule in Monza Matteo Grattarola Matteo Grattarola (Sembenini Nils Redmoto Montesa), Marco Mempor (Beta) and Andrea Soulier (Beta) the “quickest” into the Monza circuit! It seems a paradox but the second round of this Trials season was real organized inside the famous racetrack of Monza. It was already happened 20 years ago for a round of the Italian championship. Then environmentalists protested for what the trial bikes damaged in this huge green park. The Moto Club Monza had to pay fines, so any further organization was discouraged. Only now after this long period, the Trials was back in this wonderful place, with many attentions, hoping to start a new era. Of course a lot of sections were indoor-style but the loop was short and being the admission free, we finally saw more spectators willing to watch the event. Marco Mempor In the Championship

Trial European Championship: Youth and Women Monza's round Alex Brancati Second round of the 2019 FIM Europe Trials Championship as the first one: Spanish Pau Martinez (Vertigo) and Italian Alex Brancati (Beta) grabbed the spotlights in Youth and Women championship classes in Monza famous racetrack. Yes, Trials inside one of the most known circuit in the world. It was possible thanks to the great job done by local club (Monza) in bringing rocks, logs and anything else to build up a such good level competition. Nevertheless the rain dropped the day before, a warm sunny day welcomed the 74 riders split in 4 classes. In the twos that count for the championship both winners one week ago confirmed themselves with strong performances. Pau Martinez Martinez did not dominate as in Pietramurata, because he found in British Jack Dance (Gas Gas) a convincing opponent. Only one point separated Martinez from Dance

Trial European Championship: the second round in Monza One week after the first round  of the  2019 FIM Europe Trials Championship, here is soon the second one, inside the famous racetrack of Monza: a championship that seems not knowing any crisis. More than 150 riders populated the venue of Pietramurata and more or less the same are expected to attend this two-day event. As happened in the last week-end on Saturday the competition is reserved to Women and Youths, while on Sunday there will be riders belonging to Championship, Junior and Over 40 classes. It passed 20 years from the last time the local club (Monza) organized a Trials competition inside the circuit. In 1999 it was a round of Italian championship. The chairman of the club, Damiano Cavaglieri, said that the sections are almost in the same places , of course with the appropriate level necessary for the European

European Races of the weekend 27-28/04/2019  

EMX 65 / EMX 85 European Championship North West zone The very demanding sandtrack of Lommel, Belgium, host the second round of EMX 65 and 85 European Championship North West zone. Under a blue sky and 25 degrees temperature both on Saturday and on Sunday, the Dutch Ivano Van Erp in 85 and Tchech Vitezslav Marek took the win in qualifying. In EMX65 class Lotte Van Drunen from the Netherlands passed Marek Vitezslav from Czech Republik after lead the first heat and more than half of the second one. The fastest girl in EMX65 won the event with equal points with Marek. Two times third is Anton Isaksson from Sweden. Marek is still leader 8 points ahead of Lotte Van Drunen. In EMX85 Ivano Van Erp completed the race with another double victory from start to finish. Second the Danish Andreas Krogh Jensen and third and Lucas Bruhn. In the