Road Racing

Yesterday the Individual Speedway U21 EC Final was supposed to be held in Rybnik (Poland). Due to heavy rain which started 20 minutes before the scheduled time for the first heat and continued the meeting was cancelled. New date of the Individual Speedway U21 EC Final will be announced by the Track Racing Commission of the FIM EUROPE.    Download here FIM Europe Press Release 144/2014    

The third round of the Supermono European Cup was held last weekend in the German track of Oschersleben. Both races were won by Dutch rider Jerry Van de Bunt on Rotax 450. In the first race Van de Bunt was followed by Dutch Mike Velthuijzen (TZM 250GP) and British Perry Goldstein (KTM). In the second race second position went to Austrian Lukas Wimmer (Kramer) and third to British Perry Goldstein (KTM). The provisional rankings see leadership of Lukas Wimmer with 90 points in front of Perry Goldstein with 77 points. The last round of the FIM Europe Supermono Cup will take place from 10. to 12 October on the GP Circuit of Assen (The Netherlands)    Download here FIM Europe Press Release 142/2014      

The Mini Moto European Championship was held this weekend in the Czech Republic track of Cheb. Winners of the different classes are (unfortunately, there were not enough participants for two classes with Championship): Junior A: Mattia Falzone (Italy, Pasini) Senior Open 50: Michael Carbonera (Italy, DM) Mini GP 50: Davide Baldini (Italy, RMU) In the same weekend in Cheb was also held the Honda NSF European Cup with final standings seeing the victory of Finnish Peetu Paavilainen (Finland).    Download here FIM Europe Press Release 132/2014    

The 3rd Final of the 2014 FIM Europe Speedway European Championship (SEC) took part in Holsted (Denmark). Before the event a very heavy rain has made difficult the life of the organisers and riders. Due to the very hard and professional job of the organizing staff the track has got raceable one hour after the stop of the rain. The spectators have been very loyal and their premium was a nice and exciting race. There have been good fights and also surprises. At 80 % of the race program nearly half of the riders have been on the same points! The victory went to Russian Emil Sayfutdinov who has retorted for the Danish victory of last round in Russia. The runner up has been Danish Peter Kildemand and the current European Champion, Martin Vaculik of Slovakia has finished on the third place. The last round of the SEC will be

 The FIME 85 cc Youth Speedway Racing European Cup has been held in Skaerbaek (DEN) in a track built especially for youngsters riding on bikes of this category. The meeting has gone very well. The foreign riders could not brake the Danish dominance even they tried to do that in hard fights. Public could see very good heats also in the Semi Finals and in the Final. Victory went to Kasper Andersen. Christian Thaysen on 2nd place and Mads Hansen on 3rd place has completed the race. All of them have represented DMU. The local organizing club has been a very good and keen host of this FIME event.    Download here FIM Europe Press Release 124/2014    

The third round with two races of the FIM Europe Road Racing Supermono Cup was held this weekend at the Red Bull Ring - Spielberg / Austria. Friday was sunny and very hot, Saturday, the weather conditions was cloudy and later rain. The first race was won by Austrian Lukas Wimmer, followed by two Dutch riders Mike Velthujzen and Jerry Van de Bunt. Velthujzen managed to win in the second race in front of Wimmer and Dutch Ricard van Duijn. The provisional rankings see the leadership of Wimmer with 70 points, in front of German Frank Bruntrup with 54. The next event will take place from Friday 22nd to 25nd August on the Circuit of Oschersleben / Germany    Download here FIM Europe Press Release 120/2014      

The second Final of the 2014 FIM Europe Speedway European Championship (SEC) took part in Togliatti (Russia) on a nice evening of the 6th of July 2014. 9.000 spectators have seen a very spectacular, hard and fair speedway event. The atmosphere of the stadium was fantastic. Russian public was very keen. The SEC Final has been broadcasted live by EUROSPORT all over the world and was a perfect advertising for European Speedway sport. The victory went to Nicki Pedersen / Denmark followed by the local hero Emil Sayfutdinov and the Polish Patryk Dudek. The Final 3 of this exciting and high class European Championship will be in Holsted (Denmark) on the 9th of August.    Download here FIM Europe Press Release 118/2014    

The third round with two races of the Road Racing Hill Climb European Championship was held this weekend at Chatel - St. Denis in Swiss. This event was held for the second time in Switzerland. On Saturday, the weather conditions was cloudy and later rain. Afternoon was strong rain and the practice on Sunday morning must be delayed for one hour. The overall winners of the two races are the following: 250GP: Pierre Yves Brian (France, Yamaha) 600cc: Jean Noel Salvi (France, Honda) 1200cc: Stefano Bonetti (ITA, Yamaha) Supermoto: Josef Frauenschuh (AUT, KTM)/Philippe Bongard (SUI, Suzuki) Sidecar: Olivier Dichamp/Vicent Peugeot (FRA, LCR Suzuki) The next event will take place on Saturday 19st and Sunday 20nd of July Chalamont/ France    Download here FIM Europe Press Release 116/2014    

The first Final of the 2014 FIM Europe Speedway European Championship (SEC) took part in Guestrow (Germany) on a very warm and sunny evening of the 6th of July 2014. Nearly 8.000 spectators in a "sold-out" stadium have seen very spectacular and hard speedway races on a high sporting level. The SEC Final has been broadcasted live by EUROSPORT all over the world and was a perfect advertising for European Speedway sport. The victory went to Nicki Pedersen / Denmark followed by his fellowman Peter Kildemand / Denmark and Janus Kolodziej / Poland. The Final 2 of this exciting and high class Euroean Championship will be in Togliatti / Russia on 20th July 2014.    Download here FIM Europe Press Release 111/2014    

The 5th round of the Superstock 600 FIM-Europe Championship took place today on the Autódromo Internacional do Algarve (Portugal). Marco Faccani (San Carlo Team Italia Kawasaki) has won the fifth round of the European Superstock 600cc Championship and the third race in a row. After a close fight, Wayne Tessels (Wayne Racing Team) took the second place ahead of Federico Caricasulo (Evan Bros. Racing Team). The top six was completed by Illya Mikhalchik (Team Go Eleven) ahead of Richard Bodis (Talmacsi Racing) and Andrea Tucci (San Carlo Team Italia). Three riders went down in the first corner after the start of the race. All riders were uninjured. Third in the general Championship, Niki Tuuli (Kallio Racing Yamaha) did not finish the race due to technical problem. The 6th round of the Road Racing European Honda Junior Cup was held today in Portimão (Portugal). The Championship leader Augusto Fernandez (WIL Sport)