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The beautiful track of Strykow in Poland hosted the third round of the 2018 EMX Women European Championship and the last round of EMX 65 and EMX 85 North East zone. Around one thousand spectators gathered around the track to welcome and enjoy their favorite riders and feel the spirit of the race. The weather, despite all forecast and rain, turned out to be perfect during the whole weekend. Even though the organizer did a massive job to maintain the good quality of the track. On Saturday Danish rider Sara Andersen did an outstanding job at the Qualifying Race in EMX Women and was in the leadership the whole time. Just right behind her was Shana Van Der Vlist from The Netherlands with around 12 seconds from Sara. The third place was taken by Mathea Selebo from Norway. In EMX 65 the leader after qualifying was Janis Martins Reisulis from

EMX 85 Hungarian rider Pergel Bence lead from start to finish to win in Race 1. He was followed by Croatian rider Luka Kunic and Marios Kanakis from Greece. The same podium was repeated in race2. The overall winner of the day is Bence Pergel ahead of Marios Kanakis and third Patrik Ujcic. Overall SE Zone winner is Patrik Ujcic, second is Luka Kunič, third Bence Pergel. EMX 65 Israelian Ofir Casey Tzemach did the hole shot and started to lead the race. Soon he made a mistake and finished in last place. Zoltan Ordog took the lead and won Race 1 in front of Dino Loncar and Simun Ivandic. Simun Ivandic did the hole shot in race 2 and soon created a gap ahead of Zoltan Ordog. Both were followed by Dino Loncar and Ofir Casey Tzemach. Simun Ivandic crashed and all three overtook him. Also Zoltan Ordog made

The second racing weekend of the Supermono European Cup took place at Grobnik in Croatia. The weekend started with free practice sessions already on Friday. The weather wasn’t the best, there were a storm passing by, so almost every tent in the pit where broken, and some bikes fell over. Saturday (with a lot of sun) had 2 qualification rounds where Shaun Anderson from Irland and Josef Frauenschuh from Austria was the fastest riders on the track together with Daniele Scagnetti from Italy. During the weekend, the Supermono European Cup had 3 races consisting of 8 laps each. In the first race Shaun Anderson took an early lead with Josef Frauenschuh hunting him down and also passed him. After only 5 laps the race was stopped due to a rider crashing, because his motorbike leaked some oil. The race counted as completed and full points were awarded. The winner of

The riders of the FIM Europe Vintage Road Race Championship gathered at the Sachsenring circuit, which in just three weeks’ time will host the German round of the 2018 Moto GP. In a wet qualifying session 2016 Champion Peter Howarth was the fastest and took the pole position on his TZ350 Yamaha, closely followed by 2017 Champion Richard Peers Jones also on Yamaha. Paul Allender qualified third for a front row of the grid completely British. The conditions were still wet for Race 1 and a close race ensued with Peers-Jones (Class 7b) beating Howarth to the flag for only 0.2 seconds. The fastest lap was set by Howarth on his final lap in his efforts to close the gap from the winner. Swedish Lars Sanberg (Class 5) and his trusty Seeley G50 finished third to complete the podium. Other class winners in Race 1 were Tanya Hentschel (Class 2),

Day 1 - The 1st stage of the European Baja Championship started in Oleshky desert, Ukraine. It was a historical moment for Ukraine and Europe. The first day of the “Boss Baja Ukraine” began traditionally with a Super Special Stage (SSS) and Super Stage (SS), lenght of the tests was 12,1 km and 33,3 km long. In the extremely hot weather conditions the fastest rider from 8 participants who take part in European Championship in the bikes class was Anton Chornyi from Ukraine with time 40:13,48 , racing with KTM bike. In the same time Arcadiusz Lindner from Poland set the best result in the Quad Class with time 45:44,37 driving with BRP Renegate 800 vehicle. Also a female rider, Olga Rouckova from Czech Republic, competed in the Quad Class. For the riders it was a pretty interesting and hard day due to hot weather (41° C) and nature conditions.

The European U21 Individual Speedway Championship Semi-Final was held at Plzen, in Czech Republic, in very cloudy, windy weather, in front of around 500 spectators. The meeting was good, thanks to the professional job of the organising club, with interesting heats, except the heat 17 where Russian rider Gleb Chuganov spun and crashed while leading the race. As a result he broke his right ankle. The victory of Dan Bewley was impressive - he won the meeting with the maximum score (15 points). Second position for Dominik Kubera ahead of Viktor Trofymov, both from Poland. A run off was necessary for the 6th place, which was won by Russian Arsian Fayzulin, which will allow him to participate as reserve to the European Under 21 Individual Speedway Championship Final the next 15th September in Stralsund (Gerrmany). Full results on FIM Europe website: http://www.fim-europe.eu/events/574

Great inauguration of Tauron Speedway Euro Championship is behind us. First round was taken by Jarosław Hampel, who defeated Antonio Lindbaeck, Kai Huckenbeck and Mikkel Michelsen in the final heat. Hampel became the overall leader with 17 points reached. First two heats of today's round brought some tension in Robert Lambert and Krzysztof Kasprzak's teams - they touched tape in their first heat and got replaced by track reserves: Robert Chmiel and Norbert Krakowiak. Chmiel left a good impression after defending third position and leaving Emil Sayfutdinov behind his back. In heat no. 6, it was only inches away from crash between Piotr Pawlicki and Leon Madsen. Through two laps, Dane was racing really close to Pole, who got Madsen right next to the fence. Danish rider had to regain control of his bike, which led Kasprzak jumping right between these two at the finish line. A phenomenal show was

In Serbia on the track of Globare the first day of EMX 65/85 SE Zone and EMX Open class was held. All practices and qualifying races were run on cloudy, windy weather EMX 85 - Hungarian rider Pergel Bence was the quickest rider in the qualifying race in the last event of the season. Greek Mario Kanakis finished second. Both were followed by Croatians Patrik Ujcic and Luka Kunic fighting for third place. Patrik Ujcic was fastest in this duo and finished third. EMX 65 - Romanian rider Zoltan Ordog and Israelian Ofir Casey Tzemach were fighting for win in qualifying race. On the finish Ofir Casey Tzemach won in front of Zoltan Ordog and Dino Loncar finished third. EMX OPEN - Croatian rider Matija Kelava won the qualifying practice with the fastest time in front of championship leader Martin Michek and Russian Evgeny Mikhaylov Full results on FIM Europe

In the weekend from Saturday 23rd to Sunday 24th June, the follow­ing European races will be held: 23 June - European U21 Individual Speedway Championship SF3 at Plzen/Czech Republic 23 June - Individual Speedway EuroChampionship Final 1 at Gniezno/Poland 23-24 June - Vintage Road Racing European Championship at Sachsenring/Germany 23-24 June - EMX Women's European Championship at Strykowach/Poland 23-24 June - EMX65, EMX 85 SE and Open European Championship at Globare/Serbia 23-24 June - EMX65, EMX 85 European Championship NE at Strykow/Poland 23-24 June - Bajas European Championship at Oleshki/Ukraine 23-24 June - Supermono European Cup at Rijeka/Croatia

The first event of the new discipline in FIM Europe was organised in the context of the European Truck Championship at Hungaroring circuit near the Hungarian capital Budapest in front of around 1.200 spectators. The foreseen interest of the riders was higher than the number of participants – 16 - but the attending riders made a really great show for the spectators. The racing system of this discipline divided the event into 3 parts: 1st - compulsory program with basic tricks; 2nd - nest trick and the 3rd and final - five minutes-long free program. All the riders had made their best in the competition in all 3 sections. The Finals were divided into two parts both with 8-8 riders. The first group showed their program in beautiful weather but at the middle of the second group sudden rain stopped the competition. Thanks to the organising staff within one hour