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  After a long winter, the season of S2 European  Supermoto Championship burst back into life today, at the home of motorcycling at Jerez de la Frontera in southern Spain.Blue sky and perfect temperatures greeted the riders, teams and Supermoto fans from all over the world. In the two free practice sessions, the early pace-setter was Marc Reiner Schmidt (Degasoline TM), the German rider (in the photo) topping the timing sheets in both sessions with Mattia Martella (MTR KTM) placing second both times. Towards the end of free practice Toni Klem (TM Racing) of Finland who was third in the 2014 S2 European Championship, steadily improved to 3rd and was looking to spring a surprise in Timed Training later in the afternoon.Marc Reiner Schmidt had a perfect day on Saturday as he was fastest in sessions on track, including the timed practice and will start from pole for the first

On March 22nd in Warsaw, Poland, during FIM CIE Seminar, the Green Education Strategy was presented. Mr. Peter Gregory from FIM and Environmental Stewards from 12 FIM Europe Federations were present. The Green Education Strategy is a project that includes several activities:  online check-list, brand­book and Facebook page. The intention of the Commission is to educate, promote, advise Environmental Stewards, Organizers and Federations. The brandbook will be available on the website of FIM Europe. All environmental matters, including Manuals and Rules for Environmental Stewards, can be found in FIM Europe website, in the “Social” area, at this link: www.fim-europe.com/index.php/social/environmentFIM Europe Environment Commission launched online-check list system, which will be tested during 2015 season. Since nowadays a big role is played by social media, Environment Commission created its Facebook page to be constantly in touch with Environmental Stewards and to assist, help, solve issues and share experience, pictures, new ideas, innovations

The European Track Racing Championship Calendar has been updated.After the cancellation of the events of 15-16th May and of 24-25th April hosted by Ucraine Motorcycling Federation, the events have been re-scheduled as follows: - the round of Individual Speedway European Championship scheduled at Rivne on 15-16 May 2015 will be held at Daugavpils (Latvia);- the venue of the third round of Speedway European Championships will be Kumla (Sweden);- the round of European Pairs Speedway Championship scheduled in Chervonograd 24-25 April 2015 will be held in Gustrow (Germany) on 4th July 2015.The updated calendars has now been changed to the following:Individual Speedway EC European Pairs Speedway EC  

From the left Danijel Vastag, Dane Korica, Alessandro Sambuco, Sasa Jankovic - BIHAMK, Dr Wolfgang Srb - FIM Europe President, Pedrag Durdev - AMSS, Mirko Kantar - Ministry of Sport Representative, Bozidar Mihailovic - AMSS-MSS, Mirko Butulija - AMSS, Lenin Jovanovski - MFMA, Bozo Erak - BIHAMK, Raiko Ivanovic - MFM, Zoran Pavlovic On March 23th, at the Metropole Hotel in Belgrade the new appointments in the AMSS-MSS and the 20th anniversary of activity of Bozidar Mihailovic in Serbian institutions of Motorcycling were ce­le­­brat­ed. The festivities were dedicated, first of all, to the election of Bozidar Mihailovic as Chairman of the Executive Board of the MSS and the appointment of Danijel Vastag as Secretary General. But the theme of the evening were the celebrations for the twenty years of activity in the Serbian Motorcycling of Bozidar Mihailovic, who has been a motorcycling rider since 23 years.Among the guests, the President and the

With the entries for the European Championship EMX250 and EMX125 round of Pietramurata, Italy now officially closed, Youthstream, the promoter of the European Series, has just announced that both classes are full. With a 100-rider limit, the EMX250 class has exceeded this number. All riders entered after the 100th entry was accepted will be reserve riders. Should one of the first 100 entries withdraw for any reason, the reserve riders will then automatically be entered. Meanwhile the EMX125 has impressively received 95 entries, which along with the maxed out EMX250 class and extraordinary depth of talent in both classes, only attests that the European Championship is the ultimate development series for any aspiring professional motocross rider.Full grid also for the Honda EMX 150 class, which will take its start in Pietramurata, too, but the entry list will be defined by Honda in the next days. ­ These results confirm the

  FIM Europe has signed a three years contract with ITP for the support of the European Quadcross Championship.ITP is one of the brands of the global operating company The Carlstar Group (formerly Carlisle Transportation Products). The European headquarter of The Carlstar Group is based in Arnhem, the Netherlands. The Company is well-known as a premier manufacturer of a comprehensive line of performance products for original equipment and aftermarket customers with a strong family of brands including Carlisle® belts, tires and wheels, Ultimax® powersports belts, ITP® tires and wheels, as well as Cragar®, Black Rock® and Unique® wheels. Made in USA, ITP tires and wheels are realized pursuing Advanced Traction Technology, and are well-known already in many Countries and specialized in Quads and UTVs.In Europe the use of quads is very popular. The races of the European Quadcross Championship in 6 different Countries are a good opportunity for both parties

The fourth and last round of European Snowcross Championship was held today in Demino, Russia, with two final heats which were broadcast in live-streaming.   After the double win of Saturday’s races, Russian rider Dmitry Sklyarov did not manage to repeat his successful series in today’s round. In the first heat Denis Ryazantcev, from Russia, gained the leadership from the start, and held it for the first 12 minutes, but then he was passed by Estonian Kaur Tiisler who won the race. Dmitry Sklyarov finished in third position after 15 minutes +1 lap. In the second race (which was also the last of the European Championship) Estonian Kaur Tiisler took a good start. In the 6th lap he crashed and and lost several positions, but today he was the fastest rider on track and at the end he managed to gain again the front of the race. He won the

On 21st and 22nd March the 2nd Workshop on Weight Training organised in collaboration with the European Weightlifting Federation (EWF) was held at the Hotel Paradies - Graz (AUT). Even in this second Workshop the 12 Trainers, coming from 7 Countries (Cyprus, Finland, Germany, Italy, Poland, Serbia, Sweden), had at their disposal the experience of the Irish presenter Colin Buckley, EWF Executive Board Member in charge of the European Coaching Framework. Not only theoretical information, concerning mainly postural analysis, functional movements, anatomical adaptations, overreaching and overtraining, but also group work focused on particular aspects as designing a warm-up program to be used before the race and how to design sample gym programs. At the end of the Workshop was discussed with the Teacher and with the Trainers the project to the study of FIM Europe to create a European Register of Trainers that, once approved and once found the resources,

The third round of European Snowcross Championship has started in Demino, Russia. With good snow conditions, the first day of race, on Saturday, offered great show and an unexpected winner: the Russian rider Dmitry Sklyarov, who had not taken part to the first two events of the Championship in Norway.   As for the first day of races, also today the third round of the European Series will be broadcast live on Russian Television. The races can be followed in live-streaming, too, at the website HDextreme.ru according to the schedule of the day. Today’s qualifying practice will start at 12.00 and the last heat is supposed to end at 15.30.After the first day of races, with one single day to the end of the European Championship, Ole-Herman Hagen Sjøgren from Norway is leading the standings. The standings after the Saturday races of the third round:1 - Ole-Herman Hagen Sjøgren - Norway

    The third round of European Snowcross Championship will be held this weekend in Demino, Russia. Weather forecast is good for the races, and today it was fine, too, with good snow conditions during the Circuit Control. The beautiful track on the banks of river Volga will host the third round of the European Series, which will be broadcast live on Russian Television. The races can be followed in live-streaming, too, at the website HDextreme.ru according to the schedule of the day. Qualifying practice will start at 12.00 and the last heat is supposed to end at 15.30, both on Saturday and Sunday.After the second round, Finnish Eetu Karjalainen leads the European Championship. The standings after the second round:1 - Eetu Karjalainen  - Finland with 109 points2 - Viktor Hertén - Finland with 108 points 3 - Ole-Herman Hagen Sjøgren - Norway with 99 pointsAll results on FIM Europe website.