FIM Europe News

The new issue of the MAG is online at the following link: https://issuu.com/fimeurope/docs/fim_europe_mag_4-2017 In this issue, all the updates about the FIM Europe activities and in particular a special photo gallery of the FIM Europe Congress in Rome and the report of the FIM Europe Road Safety Conference. Furthermore, the meeting of Secretaries General at FIM Headquarters, the ÖAMTC activity, supporting the campaign #3500LIVES, the sports story of 13 time World Champion Angel Nieto and many other news.  

The picturesque town of Hertingen in the South of Germany hosted the 2017 European Individual Grass Track Final, with the event producing some very spectacular and close racing throughout Saturday evening. The 3,000 spectators who attended the event were treated to a number of ‘wheel to wheel’ races with riders not giving a centimetre during the 12 qualify heats. Once all the points had been totalled, the field of the top 16 point scoring riders were allocated to the three (C, B and A) Finals. With two ‘last chance’ places available for the winner and seconded place riders (in the B Final), to qualify through to the all-important A Final, racing was again extremely competitive with Edward Kennet (ACU) and home German rider Christian Hurlshorst (DMSB) finally managing to gain these two important places. This enabled them to join the defending Champion, Brit James Shanes, former multi European Stephan Katt,

The third round of the EMX ITP Quad European Championship took place in Stelpe (Latvia) this weekend, on a well prepared track. In day1, with around 33 degrees the riders carried out sessions of free practice and one of qualifying practice. The pole position for Sunday’s races went to Kevin Saar from Estonia in front of Jani Tanhuanpaa from Finland and Christopher Tveraen from Norway. Today in Stelpe it was sunny or cloudy, with 22 degrees. The organizers had once again prepared well the track and the day started with the warm up. In the first race in the afternoon the fastest rider was poleman Kevin Saar from Estonia, followed by Domantas Waznys, from Lithuania and from Christopher Tveraen from Norway. In the second race Kevin Saar was again the fastest rider, while the second place went to Jani Tanhuanpaa from Finland ahead of Domantas Waznys from Lithuania. The overall

The European U19 Individual Speedway Cup was held at Divisov, in Czech Republic, in a cloudy, windy day after the heavy rain of the day before. Over 200 spectators watched very interesting races among 18 very young riders from 10 different Countries. The racing was very tight in the whole meeting and the riders fought also with a bit tricky track, with a lot of deep ruts. After 21 heats, in the Final heat the winner was the Brit Robert Lambert, in front of Filip Hjelmland, from Sweden, of Bartosz Smektala from Poland and of Michael Haertel from Germany. Robert Lambert managed to snatch victory in all 6 his heats. It was the first meeting after a few years when the riders under 19 competed for the FIM Europe Cup.    

European top solo Grass Track riders head to the picturesque town of Hertingen in the South of Germany this weekend for Saturday’s staging of the FIM Europe Individual Grass Track Final, where one of the eighteen racers will be crowned 2017 European Champion. OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA The Hertingen Club will host Europe's Blue Riband event at their super-fast banked circuit and on Saturday evening it will see the Brit James Shanes (in the photo above) defend the title he won in dramatic style at Swingfield in England 11 months ago (in photo 2, the rostrum of 2016). Hopes for the German hosts rest largely on two former winners of the crown. Stephan Katt bids to become the first man ever to win the title four times, a feat which would elevate him above fellow-countryman Robert Barth and Dutch rider Jannick de Jong. Veteran Bernd Diener won his European crown in

In the weekend from Friday 11th to Sunday 13th August, the follow­ing European races will be held: 12 August - Track Racing European Individual Grass Track Championship at Hertingen/Germany 12 August - Track Racing European U19 Speedway Cup at Divisov/Czech Republic 10-13 August - Baja European Championship at Veszprem/Hungary 12-13 August – EMX 125, 250 and 300 European Championship at Frauenfeld/Switzerland 12-13 August – EMX IPT Quad European Championship at Stelpe/Latvia   Photo ©Youthstream

The yearly event of Motocross of the European Nations wil be held at Gdansk, in Poland, in the weekend of 2-3 September. Also the Women Motocross of European Nations will be held in the same weekend and in the entry lists there is also the name of the four-times world champion Kiara Fontanesi (in the photo). The provisional entry lists of the event have already been issued and are as follows:

Photos @Youthstream - The first overall race finishes to be decided at the Fiat Professional MXGP of Belgium were those of EMX300 Presented by FMF Racing and EMX125 Presented by FMF Racing. Over two days of racing GL12 Racing’s Mike Kras and Rockstar Energy Husqvarna Factory Racing’s Mikkel Harrup came out ahead of the rest winning their respective classes. EMX125 At the beginning of the weekend the 125cc class had 74 racers entered and only 40 making it through qualifying. Saturday’s Race 1 started with BUD Racing Monster Energy’s Brian Strubhart Moreau leading Gianluca Facchetti and Alessandro Manucci but on the third lap mistakes took all of them out of the top 3. The one rider who didn’t have any costly errors was Rockstar Energy Husqvarna Factory Racing’s Mikkel Haarup who moved into the lead on lap 4 and stayed in the top spot the remainder of the race to

The European Enduro Cup was held at Orebro, in Sweden. The race is also called Battle of Vikings and the winner of this edition was Mario Roman from Spain, who gained a wide margin. Joakim Ljunggren (Sweden) was second and Magnus Thor (Sweden) finished in third place. All riders seem happy with their results in the toughest battle ever - only 35 riders managed to make one lap or more, and more then 100 riders did not finish before the maximum time elapsed. “I'm very happy with the track, I didn't have one sad moment on this track”, stated Mario commentinghis win. “The organisers did a fantastic job. I would gladly come back and win next year’s round, too!” Joakim Ljunggren was also happy with his second place. “I feel super happy, considering Mario is a factory rider”, stated Joakim. “It felt tough on the first lap, which made me

Spanish Arnau Farrè (Gas Gas, photo1) clinched the 26th European title in the European Trial history. The Junior Cup went to Italian Manuel Copetti (Vertigo) and the Over 40 Cup to German Markus Kipp (TRS). And this means that we did not have any surprises in this last round of the 2017 FIM Europe Championship, held in Lazzate, Italy. Indeed, all the leaders in the 3 different classes got their final prize. All photos @Phototrial.it After the incredible hot weather of the day before, weather forecast announced possible showers for this second day and they were not wrong. After the start of the International classes a heavy shower dropped making the first sections more challenging. Luckily it lasted less than one hour and all riders could benefit of the quick drying of the rocks because the sun shone again soon. The only one who celebrated the fresh crown with a