Road Racing

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 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

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

The third of six rounds of Road Race Hill Climb European Championship was held at Julbach, in Austria, in a sunny, warm day, on a perfectly prepared track, ahead of around 8000 spectators. On Sunday there were no crashes but a fair fight. In 250GP the fastest was Guido Testoni (ITA) on his Honda. In SSP very hard fight between Daniele Stolli (ITA) and Uwe Rademacher (SUI). They have the same points after this event but they both overtake Rafael Neuner after his crash in FP. Christian Wiesinger-Mayr (AUT) of Superbike class won an event with the new track record in 1:05,766 s. and average speed 140,7 km/h. Second was Wolfgang Gammer ahead of Andreas Gangl, all from Austria. In SuperMoto the winner was Josef Frauenschuh, ahead of Phillip Neumuller and Florian Winkler, all from Austria In 250GP Guido Testoni increases his advantage; we have a new leader in Supersport

The Final of the European 250 cc Youth Speedway Cup was held at the Fladbro Speedway Center, at Randers, in Denmark. It was a very interesting meeting, where 17 riders were fighting for the 250cc Speedway European Youth Cup. The winner with maximum of 5 straight wins was the Danish talent Marcus Birkemose closely followed by the rest of the field. Second position for Phillip Hellström-Bängs, from Sweden, ahead of Esben Hjerrild from Denmark. Perfect track conditions enabled the very good and fair racing even though very heavy rain forced the organiser to postpone the meeting from Sunday. Full results on FIM Europe website: http://www.fim-europe.eu/events/563

It is with great sadness that we report the passing of Andreas Perez Manresa, following an incident during Round 4 of the FIM CEV Repsol Moto3™ World Championship at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya. Perez was a standout performer in the 2017 European Talent Cup, taking two wins and a number of further podiums during the season to end the year in fourth. For 2018, he had moved up to the Moto3™ Junior World Championship, competing with the Reale Avintia Academy team. The Spaniard was involved in an incident during Round 4 of the FIM CEV Repsol Moto3™ Junior World Championship and later succumbed to his injuries. The incident happened in the second race of the day for the Moto3™ category, with the red flag shown immediately. The rider received medical attention at the side of the track before then being transferred to the Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant

Maximilian Scheib (Aprilia Racing Team) scored his first win of the 2018 European Superstock 1000 Championship in slippery conditions at the Automotodrom Brno. The Chilean was unstoppable in wet conditions, taking the second win of his STK1000 career, and moving his Aprilia to within just 9 points of the championship lead. Alessandro Delbianco (GULF ALTHEA BMW Racing Team) and Florian Marino (URBIS Yamaha Motoxracing STK Team) climbed to the rostrum for the first time this year, in second and third, respectively. It had not rained at the Moravian track since early on Friday morning, but while the STK1000 riders set up on the grid the clouds opened and a weekend’s worth of showers dropped inside fifteen minutes. A soaked start saw Scheib overtake Markus Reiterberger (alpha Racing – Van Zon- BMW) inside the first few seconds. The German, unstoppable in dry conditions, has not been able to show that same

On the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya Jesko Raffin (Swiss Innovative Investors Junior, photo1) and Augusto Fernández (Easyrace, photo2) shared the honours in Moto2™, while Matteo Patacca (SIC58 Squadra Corse) won in the European Talent Cup. The European Kawasaki Z Cup race was abandoned due to rain. Jesko Raffin won the first Moto2™ race of the day in which he took part in an intense duel with Augusto Fernández. The Swiss poleman took the lead right from the start, followed by Edgar Pons (AGR Team), Héctor Garzó (Team Wimu CNS), Dimas Ekky (Astra Honda Racing Team) and Marc Alcoba (Dynavolt Intact Junior Team). Jesko Raffin pulled away followed by Edgar Pons while Dimas Ekky led a small pursuing group. Augusto Fernández began to move up until he caught the AGR Team rider and eventually passed the leader to head the race. Jesko Raffin and Augusto Fernández fought a tremendous duel but in

Marcus Reiterberger (alpha Racing- Van Zon-BMW) was yet again unstoppable in the European Superstock 1000 Championship, keeping his good momentum going from Friday into the Saturday qualifying round. The German was half a second faster than the riders following him, and could be on course for an amazing fourth race win of the season. He will face competition from Maximilian Scheib (Aprilia Racing Team) however. The Chilean has proven to be a tough competitor to the leading rider’s authority, and starting from second on Sunday’s grid will fancy his chances at recording a first win this year. Roberto Tamburini (Berclaz Racing Team) finished qualifying in third place, meaning that Sunday’s front line will be completed by the same riders that rose to the rostrum at Donington Park in the previous round. In fourth, Florian Marino (URBIS Yamaha Motoxracing STK Team) will be hoping for his podium of the season, as