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The second day at the third round of the Enduro European Championship (EEC) in Casanova di Staffora / Italy was won by the Italian rider Maurizio Micheluz. The reigning champion had a tight fight with his countryman Jacopo Cerutti. The winner of the first day, the Brit Tom Sagar, lost a lot of time already in the first lap, when he had a very hard crash in the Enduro-Test. This for he couldn’t reach the two Italians. The heavy rain at the end of the day doesn’t help him too: the last test became very slippery and difficult. The rain started, when the first rider arrived and became more and more. This is the reason that the 17 year old junior Brad Freeman from England won this test took the second place in the overall! This is, why you find his foto in here – while the junior-classes are starting

The sixth and final round in European Championship EMX 85cc & EMX 65cc, and the 7th round in EMX Open was this weekend held in Senkvice, Slovakia. On a very hot Saturday the organizer has made a great work with watering the track, and the qualifying races went very well. In the EMX 85cc it was Gianluca FACCHETTI (ITA) the fastest rider and got the pole position in the Sunday races. In the EMX 65cc it was Noel NIELSSON (SWE) who got the pole position. In the EMX Open class the fastest rider was Semen ROGOZIN (RUS). Sunday´s races were under great conditions except the last hour, when huge thunderstorm came and due to this Jury commission decided to shortened EMX 65 second race and cancelled EMX OPEN second race. The first race In EMX 85cc meant victory for Taylor HAMMAL (GBR) who secured by this his overall victory in

Serbian Motocross Club Gajici was this weekend the host of the last 65cc -85cc round of the South Eastern European Zone. Seven thousand people gathered under the warming Sun to enjoy the beautiful races the MX kid riders in EMX65 and EMX85 were ready to perform. Bulgarian Hakan Halmi (KTM) was the winner of the day in EMX85, having won both races by a large gap in front of Bulgarian rider Alex Dimitrov (KTM) who managed to finish second in both races as well, maintaining a 2 point lead in front of Hakan Halmi in the overall where Alex Dimitrov was second and Hakan Halmi third. Third in both races was Bulgarian rider Momchil Ivanov (KTM). Even though absent for the race, Croatian rider Nikola Hranic won the overall of the South Eastern Zone with 163 points, 12 more than Alex Dimitrov. EMX65 was a Hungarian affair with Adam Kovacs

As happened in Italy at the first round, Belgian Maxime Warenghien (Sherco), German Sascha Neumann (Gas Gas) and Finn Jussi Haapanen (Gas Gas) won their respectively classes in this second day, in Tanvald, Czech Republic. This was the fourth and penultimate round of the 2014 FIM Europe Championship. Four sections were modified to make them more difficult, after having seen the scores of yesterday, and the weather was again clement for the whole event. After the convincing victory of day one, all eyes were focused on German Franz Kadlec (Beta) to watch and admire his precise riding. And he did not disappoint his fans, gaining the leadership at half competition as he did 24-hours before. Best score (7 marks) and all rivals behind. But this time not too distant. Werenghien scored 12, same for British Jack Price (Gas Gas). Then Norwegian Hakon Pedersen (Ossa with just 3 marks more. At

The 125cc Track Racing European Cup was held yesterday in the Czech track of Plzen. Winner of the event was Dutch Jarmo Vires, followed by Polish Marcel Studzinski and Polish Marcin Koscielski.      Download here FIM Europe Press Release 100/2014   

German Franz Kadlec (Beta) dominated the scene in this first day in Tanvald, Czech Republic, valid as third round of the 2014 FIM Europe Trial Championship. His total score of 10 points is almost one third of what done by the second, Martin Kroustek, proud to bring on podium his Beta 4 stroke: the only one at this level on a not updated model. In third position another “local” rider, Jiri Svoboda (Beta) ahead of one of the favourites, Italian Luca Cotone (Sherco). Against the odds the weather: for the first time in tre latest years, Tanvald offered a sunny day, consequently the scores in all the classes lowered dramatically. Kadlec demonstrated soon to be able to ride one step above his rivals. On the 15 sections, after the first loop, he lost 8 marks. Svoboda was not too distant (13), then Cotone (17). But the second lap of the

The first day at the third round of the Enduro European Championship (EEC) in Casanova di Staffora / Italy was won by the British rider Tom Sagar on his KTM: he was 51 seconds in front of the reigning Champion Maurizio Micheluz and his countryman Jacopo Cerutti – Both couldn’t take time from their “home-advantage”. Micheluz took the second place in the last of the six tests – which came together to 50 minutes: “I know, Jacco was only fife seconds far, so I pushed as hard as possible.” This helped him to win this enduro-test with 8 seconds in front of Cerutti and so he took the second place of the day. With this we already have the the winner of three main classes. The E1-Class was won by Suzuki-rider Maurizio Micheluz with nearly 50 seconds in front of the Swiss Jonathan Rosse on the Yamaha and the British

The Final in Team Speedway U21 European Championship took place in Herxheim, Germany on a warm and sunny afternoon. After 20 very exciting heats with good track conditions and on a very high sporting level the numerous spectators have seen the victory of a very strong team from Poland. Strong and hard but fair fight on the following places brought the result to see the team from Denmark on the second place on the day of DMU`s 100 years anniversary. Third place went to the team from Czech Republic and the young team Germany could only finish on the fourth place. Due to the perfect organization in Herxheim, the three winning teams received their FIM Europe medals exactly 2,5 hours after the start of the first heat.    Download here FIM Europe Press Release 097/2014  

The Individual Grass Track European Championship was held yesterday on the French track of Saint Macaire. The winner is Dutch Jannick De Jong in front of British David Howe and German Enrico Janoschka.    Download here FIM Europe Press Release 096/2014  

The Enduro European championship is on the way to the third round: Next weekend (28th / 29th of June) it will take place in Casanova di Staffora, in the Northern part of Italy, little bit east of the line between Milano and Genova (Mailand – Genua). More than 120 riders from 13 different nations are expected. On both days they have to complete for three times the track of 50 km and three special-tests each round. The reigning overall-champion Maurizio Micheluz is in his home-country and used to the area and the ground and will try to defend his current leadership. But behind the Italians are already 4 British riders in wait. Among them, the reigning champion of the E2-class Tom Sagar, who has already conquered three stage victory in a row. Most of the riders you find in the attached entry-list: not included is the reigning-champion and leader in