2012

Tom Sykes (Kawasaki Racing Team) was over a second faster than any of his rivals in a Tissot-Superpole contest run under ‘wet’ conditions. The wet Superpole rules dictated that there were two twenty-minute sessions only with the top eight riders only from Superpole 1 moving on to Superpole 2. Despite being declared wet, the track surface during the second session in particular was almost compl...

MRW rider wins in Qatar for second consecutive victory in Cross-Country Rallies World Championship. The winner of the Sealine Cross-Country Rally has now been decided. MRW rider Marc Coma was this morning crowned the inaugural winner of the event –the second race of the World Championship season. Second in the final stage, Coma ended the contest with a final advantage of more than six minutes ov...

Next weekend – 28 / 29 April - will see the opening round of the 2012 FIM Trial World Championship take place in the small mountain town of La Bresse in north-east France. Situated in the idyllic Vosges National Park, La Bresse has a population of a little over five thousand people, but will very soon swell in numbers as this year’s riders and teams descend on the town for the first in a series o...

Sylvain Guintoli (Ducati Effenbert Liberty Racing) set the quickest time in this afternoon’s first qualifying session at Assen, which was finally conditioned by bad weather.The riders first went out on slicks but soon after it began to rain, making the track slippery and holding back ultimate lap times. The competitors just about managed to get back to the pits in reasonable conditions and then ju...

Dougie Lampkin - Gas Gas has officially announced his retirement from the FIM Trial World Championship earlier today, after an incredible nineteen years of competing at the top level of the sport. Since making his debut in the series on Sunday 18th April at Warken, Luxembourg way back in 1993 Lampkin has contested a record two hundred and fifty-seven Grand Prix events. Confirming his status as the...

Following Joan’s accident at Imola during official Superbike World Championship testing onMonday April 2nd, we would like to inform you of the following updates. Joan Lascorz is conscious and remains hospitalized in the Intensive Care Unit of Hospital de la Valld'Hebron in Barcelona, and will remain so until a build-up of lung mucus is eradicated. The initial idea wasto move Joan this past week in...

Olivier AERTS, Team Manager :Let’s not be fussy, to finish 10th overall in a World Endurance race and 4th in Superstock is a great result for a Team of our category!We have only had two days to prepare, test and set-up our new Yamaha R1 2012 and to familiarize ourselves with the new Pirelli tires. Furthermore, we engaged three new riders who didn’t know each other, making the task even more diffic...

After a week-break, the FIM Motocross World Championship is back to celebrate the second round of the season in the awarded track of Sevlievo, Bulgaria, where Antonio Cairoli and Jeffrey Herlings will give their best to keep the red plate on their KTM. Besides, the Gorna Rositza track will also host the first round of the UEM EMX125 championship.In the first Grand Prix of the season, held in the s...

German bicycle company UNIVEGA has confirmed its continuing and expanding relationship with the FIM by announcing the three FIM awards that it will support in 2012. UNIVEGA will be donating three of its state-of-the-art mountain bicycles, which will be presented at the end of the season to celebrate the special achievements of three respective riders.UNIVEGA has enjoyed a long and rich association...

FIM Academy inspires future generation of racing starsThe inaugural 2012 FIM Track Racing Youth Training Camp was organised in collaboration with Croatia’s Gorican Speedway Club, which hosted the event at its city’s Speedway Stadium Millennium. The FIM Track Racing Commission together with FIM Medical, Technical & International Environment Commissions, under the aegis of the FIM Academy, the t...