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Vintage Enduro European Championship: third round in Germany After the first round in Casciana Terme, Italy, and the second one in Villebrett, France, the 3rd race of the Vintage Enduro European Championship took place in Itterbeck, Germany. Almost 30 riders came from Italy, Spain, France and Germany to join the race. The race was perfectly organized and riders could ride enduro with the amazing landscape close to the Netherlands and the North-Atlantic Sea. The route was 66 km long per lap (2 laps) with an amazing Special Cross Country Tests to be raced four times, for a total of about 5 hours. The winner: Classic1 – Ole Fleischer, GER Classic2 – Jens Oestreich, GER Classic3 – Johannes Steinel, GER Expert2 – Xavier Castey, SPA Open2 – Daniel Delomenede, FRA Open3 – Andrea Rastrelli, ITA Visit our track racing page

Hill Climb and Vintage Hill Climb European Championship: action in Italy Second round of the Hill Climb and first one for the Vintage Hill Climb European Championship in Italy, in the mountains of Pogio-Vallefredda. A hot weekend welcomed over 200 riders who took part to the race scheduled with the Italian Championship. Hill Climb race 1 and race 2 results: 250 GP 1. Guido Testoni, ITA 2. Bernard Depierreux, BEL 3. Marco Vigilucci, ITA Supersport 600 1. Maurizio Bottalico, ITA 2. Tiziano Rosati 3. Mauro Poncini Superbike 1. Stefano Bonetti, ITA 2. Salvatore Sallustro, ITA 3. Reinhard Strack Supermono 1. Philippe Bongard 2. Cosimo Sozzo 3. Stafano Leone Vintage Hill Climb results: Class Open 1. Alpassi Carlo 2. Lombardi Giovanni Class 125 2T 1. Testoni Guido 2. Mutti Pierluigi 3. Laureti Lucio Class 250 2T 1. Avo Tommaso 2. Tedeschi Gino 3. Della Latta Roberto Class 250 2T GP 1.

Vintage Endurance Cup: the season started in Le Castellet Photo Credit: Alain Vande Craen The first race for FIM Europe Vintage Endurance Cup was held last weekend at Paul Ricard race track, Le Castelet, near Marseille, behind closed doors due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The race was very professionally organised by French Federation and Paul Ricard staff. Timed practices started on Friday while the race started on Saturday at 8.30 pm: 25 teams (on 29) finished the race on Sunday at 00.30 am. Results: Classic 1. Moto Shop 35/IT2M, France 2. AML Racing, France 3. Dédé Moto Team, France Open 1. Dholda Racing, Belgium 2. Team Force, Belgium 3. Motobox, Spain Maxi Classic 1. MotoPort Uithoorn Racing, The Netherlands 2. Road Runner, The Netherlands 3. SERCT 33, France Formula 1. Marine Tech, France 2. Bolipack Racing Team, Germany 3. RMB Classic, France Visit our track racing page

Vintage Motocross Cup: Italy hosted the first round The new European Championship reserved for classic bikes made its debut over the weekend of Saturday 17th and Sunday 18th April at Maggiora track, Italy. Created by the Italian Motorcycling Federation’s Motocross Vintage Coordination and immediately supported by the promoter FXAction Group and the MMX Maggiora Motocross Club, this new championship raced his first round on one of the world’s most popular motocross tracks, with the exceptional number of 350 riders. At the start vintage enthusiasts of all ages: from class '46 to class 2006, all strictly riding bikes that in the past have ridden the ups and downs of Maggiora, for a unique show. Among the participants there were also celebrities who have written the history of motorcycling, attracted by the indisputable uniqueness of the event. An old-time show in a modern way for a challenge until the last jump. The

Vintage Hill Climb European Championship: single round in Italy Single event for the Vintage Hill Climb European Championship in Italy, with the race in Isola del Liri-Poggio Vallefredda, at the end of a tough season rescheduled due to the Coronavirus emergency. Race 1 classification   Classic 125 1.     Giovanni Lombardi 2.     Mario Dolfi   125 GP 1.     Pierluigi Mutti 2.     Guido Testoni 3.     Lucio Laureti   Classic 250 1.     Roberto Della Latta   250 GP 1.     Gino Tedeschi   Classic superbike 1.     Domenico Paniccia 2.     Giovanni Caschera 3.     Massimo Palleschi   Classic open 1.     Stefano Bonetti   Sidecar 8a 1.     Gundinger/Gundinger   Sidecar 8b 1.     Pflaz/Luttke 2.     Neubauer/Stobich   Sidecar 8c Befera/Di Berti Race 2 classification   Classic 125 1.     Mario Dolfi 2.     Giovanni Lombardi   125 GP 1.     Pierluigi Mutti 2.     Guido Testoni 3.     Lucio Laureti   Classic 250 1.     Roberto Della Latta   250 GP 1.     Gino Tedeschi

Vintage Endurace Cup: just one shot in Misano Thanks to the great effort of the Vintage Commission, last weekend the Misano World Circuit Marco Simoncelli, Italy, hosted the single round of the Vintage Endurace Cup. Just one event for the championship after the emergency situation due to the Coronavirus outbreak. The titles go to Classe Classic 1. Francesco Greggio, Michele Greggio, Paolo Fanton (ITA) Classe Formula 1. Ralf Eckert, Thomas Schuler, Bruno Azner (GER) Classe Maxi 1. Matthieu Sauve, Clement Chevrier (FRA) Classe Open 1. Greg Fastrè, Strphane Mertens (BEL)  

Vintage Road Racing European Championship: Grobnik hosted the single event of the season The Circuit of Grobnik, Croatia, hosted the only race of the Vintage Road Racing European Championship, in a season totally modified by the Coronavirus outbreak. The winners are: • Class 2: Tanja Henchel, Aermachi 250, Germany • Class 6: Bert Heider, Moto Guzzi 750, Germany • Class 7a: Juergen Riedel, Honda, Germany • Class 7b: Peter Howrath, Yamaha TZ, Great Britain

FIM Europe Vintage Commission News Vintage Road Racing Croatia’s Grobnik circuit will host the only remaining event of the 2020 European Vintage Road Race calendar. The meeting will be held over the weekend 18th – 20th September in Rijeka. Free practice will start on Friday followed by races on Saturday and Sunday. Supplementary regulations and entries will be available shortly on the FIM Europe website. ICGP races will also be held at the Grobnik meeting. This will be the first ICGP race since Valencia in March after which the season was interrupted by Covid 19. Vintage Endurance Cup There will be a Vintage Endurance race at Italy’s Misano Circuit on 9th-10th October. As this is the only Vintage Endurance Cup event of 2020, the race will decide the 2020 Vintage Endurance Championship. Vintage Hill Climb Championship Just one race remaining in the Vintage Hill Climb calendar: Isola del Liri, Italy,

Motocross of European Nations heads to Riola Sardo in 2020! The FIM Europe and Youthstream are pleased to announce that the FIM Europe’s Motocross of European Nations will head to Italy in 2020. The event is set to take place on 11th October in Riola Sardo, Sardinia. The venue is situated in the large Italian island of Sardinia, close to the coast of the Mediterranean Sea. It has become well known amongst the riders of MXGP as it's one of the favorite venues of many World Championship riders’ pre-season preparation. In 2019 it was Team Italy who were victorious once again as they went on to defend their title as they scored the least amount of points (44) closely followed by Team Spain in second (45 points) and Czech Republic in third (57 points). Meanwhile in the women’s category, Team Netherlands were crowned champions as Nancy Van de Ven took

Vintage Hill Climb meeting in Cheb On Saturday, 15th of November meeting with riders and organisers of 2019 FIM E Vintage Hill Climb Championship was organised in Cheb, Czech Republic. A day has started with meeting with organisers. At the meeting 2019 season was discussed and rules for 2020 were drafted. The calendar for 2020 will be as it was agreed at the Vintage Commission in autumn meeting at Fiumicino: - 20.06.2020. – Julbach, Austria - 12.07.2020. – Munster, France - 01.08.2020. – Lückendorf, Germany There is a possibility for additional date in Switzerland if an agreement with organizer will be finished, but not later than 1st of December 2019. At all events the format of the race will be that at Saturday and Sunday it will be one practise and two heats of which better result will count for championship points. With format like this we will have six