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In sunny and very hot weather conditions the fourth round of the 2018 Supermoto European Championship season started in Thessaloniki in the region of Central Macedonia of Greece. For Greece it is the second year in a row that the Championship is being organized. The race track of Drive Park is one of the best in the country and with its combination of fast and medium corners and fast straights it will give some close racing. Today the free practices and time practice were held in Thessaloniki. After his injury in Poznan, TM Factory Racing rider Thomas Chareyre is back in action and took the pole position in Greece. With a lot of riders close to each other, for sure the races of tomorrow will be full of action. Time practice With a lot of riders close to each other in the free practices the battle for the pole position

The Final 2 of Speedway Euro Championship was held at Güstrow, in Germany. Around 5000 spectators witnessed one of the best speedway meetings in recent times - close racing, with an incredible amount of overtakes, with positions changing corner after corner, race after race. British Robert Lambert was victorious in the final heat to take the evening’s top spot, closely followed in second place by Danish Leon Madsen. The battle for third spot that was won by Mikkel Michelsen ahead of Emil Sayfutdinov. The event was held without incidents and injuries. The next meeting of the series will be at Daugavpils, in Latvia, on August 18th. Full results on FIM Europe website: http://www.fim-europe.eu/events/594

In the weekend from Saturday 14th to Sunday 15th July, the follow­ing European races will be held: 14 July - Individual Speedway EuroChampionship Final at Gustrow/Germany 14-15 July - Supermoto S1, SM Junior and S3 at Thessaloniki/Greece 14-15 July - European Sidecar Championship at Roden/The Netherlands

The technical rules of the Supersport 300 European Cup have been updated: the weight and speed limits have been changed in accordance with the World Supersport 300 regulations. The new rules can be found on FIM Europe website at the following link: http://www.fim-europe.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/AACR_Technical_Bulletin_02-2018.pdf

Youthstream announces a modification to the recently released provisional 2019 MXGP FIM Motocross World Championship calendar. The venue of the MXGP of France scheduled for the 16th of June 2019 has been updated to TBA (to be announced). The provisional calendar remains otherwise unchanged and the current version can be viewed below with the update.

Following the cancellation of the final round of the Women's Motorcross Championship, the Chairman of FIM Europe Motocross & Snowcross Commission, Mr. Eddie Herd, is delighted to announce that the medal ceremony will now take place on the SkyBox podium on 16th September at the MXGP in Assen, with the kind permission of Youthstream. This event has the FIM WMX class together with MXGP and MX2 and it is planned to have the medal ceremony on the Sunday morning following the WMX winner's ceremony. The WEMX winners are as follows: Gold - Sara Andersen of Denmark (in the photo) Silver - Shana Van Der Vlist of the Netherlands Bronze - Mathea Selebo of Norway. For the 125 2 stroke class the winners are:- Gold - Lyn Valk of the Netherland Silver - Malou Jakoben of Denmark Bronze - Kirstine Valledsen of Denmark.  

Markus Reiterberger (Alpha Racing-Van Zon-BMW) rode to another spectacular win in the European Superstock 1000 Championship, increasing his championship lead to 14 points with just two rounds to go. The German was unstoppable from lights to flag at the Misano World Circuit Marco Simoncelli, taking his fourth win of the campaign ahead of Maximilian Scheib (Aprilia Racing Team) and Riccardo Russo (Motocorsa Racing). As the lights went out it was a stunning start for Reiterberger as he looked as comfortable as always on his BMW machine, never looking back once he got away from the line. But his competitors were on the hunt for the podium, as Scheib kept one eye on the championship standings looking for second position. Keeping the fight going until the end of the race, there were two stunning battles on the cards for the final podium spots, with Scheib just managing to hold off Russo

The European Individual Grass Track Championship Final was a very hard fought competition staged on an extremely hot evening at the Circuit Jacques Rossignol, at Tayac in the South of France. With each of the 20 riders competing in four qualifying heats, before earning their place in one of three Finals (C, B and A), racing was always going to be hard and fast on the 400 metre track. Unfortunately one of the pre meeting favourites – young Dutchman Romano Hummel – crashed in his first heat, and after receiving medical attention on the track, was then taken to hospital with a suspected broken leg. With the winner and second placed rider of the B Final being elevated into the main A Final, this race was always going to be one of the toughest of the evening. However Czech rider Martin Malek leapt from the tapes, chased by defending European

The Polish national team won the first edition of the European U19 Pairs Cup. The historical gold went to Jakub Miśkowiak, Wiktor Trofimow and Szymon Szlauderbach. The European Cup Par U19 is a completely new event. The historic, first competition consisted only of the final tournament and seven teams competed in the race. Poles showed from the very start that they were the favourites. In the competition, they collected 26 points out of available 30 points in 21 heats. Denmark and Latvia were battling for 2nd and 3rd place the whole meeting long with Denmark having better finish with 23 points over Latvia with 21 points. The meeting was held with no major incidents or accidents. Only some minor crashes happened but without any serious injuries. Full results on FIM Europe website: http://www.fim-europe.eu/events/589  

Toby Martyn (Montesa, photo 1) beat his team mate Matteo Grattarola (photo 2) in the second day at Isola 2000, France, third round of the European Trial Championship. Sergio Piardi (Beta, photo 3) and Marcus Kipp (TRS, photo 4) on top in Junior and Over40 class respectively. Still sunny day and still rain in late evening the day before, so the sections dried during the day. Martyn - not too happy of his previous day’s performance - decided to ride quickly and ahead of the group of his rivals, probably in order not to be conditioned by the outcome of the others. And this decision was fruitful for him. He was soon leader at the first deliver of the card: 21 points. Grattarola underestimated some slippery sections and collected 4 ‘five’, ending the loop with 31 marks and was in fourth position, behind Francesc Moret (Montesa) who scored 28 and