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In the weekend from Friday 27th to Sunday 29th October, the follow­ing European races will be held: 27-28 October – Vintage Endurance Cup at Aragon/Spain 28 October – European Cross Country Cup at Tofta Skjutfalt Gotland/Sweden

Save the date: after 15 years top Speedway will return to the Stadion Śląski in Chorzów. The final event of the Individual Speedway European Championship will be organized on 15 September 2018. The stadium has been fully renovated and is now a very modern and state of the art facility, with a capacity of 50.000 spectators. History is still important in Chorzów: It was in 1973 when Polish Speedway legend Jerzy Szczakiel became the first Polish Speedway World Champion. He won the title in front of an enthusiastic crowd of more than 100.000 spectators after a run-off with the defending World Champion and all-time great Ivan Mauger from New Zealand. FIM Europe´s promotion partner One Sport presented the project on the occasion of a press conference in the Stadion Śląski, assisted by representatives from the regional Government, the Stadion, PZM and last, but not least, FIM Europe. From left, Wojciech

FIM and FIM Europe, FEMA (Federation of European Motorcyclists Associations) and FIVA (Fédération Internationale des Véhicules Anciens), which are the associations which represent the different aspects of Motorcycling met all together in Brussels, Belgium. A review was held of all the major topics about the world of motorcycling under discussion in this period at international level: from self-driving cars to mobility tests to offroad circulation. From left, Morten Hansen FEMA, Ian Churchlow FEMA , Doede Bakker FIVA, Rolf Frieling FEMA, Jesper Christensen FIM, Francesca Marozza FIM Europe, Palmino Poli FIVA, Dolf Willinger FEMA, Silvio Manicardi FIM Europe, Wim Taal FEMA. Photo ©Wim Taal During the meeting, the results of some mobility tests in towns were analysed, where the motorcycle resulted to be the fastest vehicle to move around in cities (in some cases PTWs’ transfers take half of the time with respect to public vehicles or cars). There was also an

In Sunday’s final race of the Superstock 1000 European Championship season former WorldSBK rider Markus Reiterberger (Van Zon Remeha BMW) took an impressive win from pole, crossing the line five seconds clear at the front, with Michael Rinaldi (Aruba.it Racing - Junior Team) securing the title by finishing sixth. Illia Mykhalchyk (TripleM Racing) and Toprak Razgatlioglu (Kawasaki Puccetti Racing) completed the podium in second and third places respectively. There was drama on the first lap at turn 2 as title contender Florian Marino (Pata Yamaha Official STK1000 Team) crashed with Florian Alt (Team Yamaha MGM), in an incident which also involved Alejandro Medina Mayo (Cardoso School Racing). Medina was given a ride through for his part in that early clash which was to be so costly for Marino’s title aspirations, as the Frenchman ultimately finished in 20th place. That left Rinaldi and Razgatlioglu to fight out the title between them,

At the Spanish Round on Saturday afternoon a delayed – and ultimately curtailed - final session of the day saw one event rider Markus Reiterberger (Van Zon Remeha BMW) secure a start from pole position in Sunday’s final race of the Superstock 1000 European Championship. The German rider is joined on the front row by STK1000 regulars Mike Jones (Aruba.it Racing - Junior Team) and Roberto Tamburini (PATA Yamaha Official STK 1000 Team). Former WorldSBK man Reiterberger (in photo1) registered a pole lap of 1’42.113 shortly before the session was ended two minutes early due to a red flag. There was also drama earlier in proceedings when midway through QP Jones crashed at turn 5 and did not reappear. He held provisional pole at that point but was eventually outpaced by Reiterberger by just 0.023s. Tamburini took third place on the grid with a lap time 0.068s off that of

In the weekend from Friday 20th to Sunday 22nd October, the follow­ing European races will be held: 20-22 October – European Superstock 1000 at Jerez/Spain 20-22 October – European Supersport at Jerez/Spain          

On 18th November riders from around Europe, together with guests from the USA will show up in Ergo Arena, at Gdansk/Sopot to fight for the European Champion title. Supercross will be held for the second time in Poland, and for the first time as a European Supercross Championship. The registration for riders is already available online. For the last five years Ergo Arena hosted the best FMX riders competing in Freestyle Motocross World Championship – Diverse Night of the Jumps. This year, Sportainment Agency will present to the audience in Pomerania Supercross., which made its debut in Poland last year, in 2017, and which comes back at the highest possible level in Europe. “We are happy to announce that Sportainment Agency has been chosen as a promoter of European Supercross Championships 2017-2019“, says Przemyslaw Szymanski of Sportainment.  “Starting with one round this year our goal is to build strong and

The third and last day of the final round of the Enduro European Championship took place in Gelnica, Slovakia and in the overall rating three Italians were on the podium: the new European champion is the Junior Matteo Pavoni (photo2), who is also champion in the junior class E1 on the 250th four-stroke KTM. His 34 year-old countryman Maurizio Micheluz snatched the second place ahead of Oscar Balletti, both on a 300cc Husqvarna-2-stroke. In this last day of the season, in the final motocross test, the favourite was the Czech Jaromir Romancik, who crashed but in the end he managed to win both in his E2 class, and also in the overall. Mautizio Micheluz (photo1) won the European Championship title in the E3 class, ahead of his fellow competitor Balletti. Photos ©Robert Pairan In the junior class, the 20-year-old Joakim Grelsson from Sweden was already the champion. His compatriot Calle

The last two rounds of ICGP were held at Almeria, in Spain, with 16 participants in front of around 1000 spectators in sunny, hot weather conditions. In Saturday’s practice only Stefan Tennstaedt from Germany had some problems – in 1st QP his engine was broken, in the 2nd he crashed (luckily without consequence). Even though, he snatched the 6th grid position and 2nd in his class behind Vincent Levieux (FRA). Very hard fight for Renaud Binoche (SPA), who at the end signed the second qualifying time behind Mike Edwards (GBR). In Race1 in 350cc class Mike Edwards won with a big margin. He said: “I was always riding at 100%”, at at the beginning of the race he lost 2 positions and had to ride really fast to win. Second was Renaud Binoche (his best lap was 2 sec faster than in QP but it was not enough to beat

Krzysztof Kasprzak won the final round of Speedway European Championship, which took place in Lublin. Andrzejs Lebedevs became the new Individual European Champion. Silver medal for Artem Laguta, ahead of Vaclav Milik (photo2). Andreas Jonsson and Krzysztof Kasprzak earned the right to stay in the cycle. The first fight of the day took place between Krzysztof Kasprzak and Mateusz Szczrepaniak – the two riders fighting for the right to stay in the cycle. The latter was quite lucky, because Smolinski, going for the 3rd place at the moment, had a problem; thanks to that, Szczepan earned one point. The second heat welcomed Lebedevs, Milik and Laguta, all of them fighting for the highest positions in the general standing. The fact that they started to ride very close to each other proves that the riders took the heat seriously – Artem Laguta suffered a fall because of that. During the repeated