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The GRAND PRIX BIKE MAGAZINE OF FINLAND is traditionally and incontestably one of the fastest races of the season. During the first day of competition run this Saturday, 99 starters discovered the easy special tests of Riihimäki, favouring riding ability and generosity with gas throttle. In the KTM SUPER TEST of Friday evening, a parallel timed portion, the world best riders made the show for a pu...

Holidays are finished for the stars of MAXXIS FIM WEC. The fourth meeting of world championship will join together on June 13th and 14th in Riihimäki the cream of Enduro for the GRAND PRIX BIKE MAGAZINE OF FINLAND. Regarded as the greatest nation of enduro of these ten last years, Finland had not organized a stage of world tour since 2005 and the test of Heinola. About only 69 kilometers from the ...

For his second season in the seniors, Joakim Ljunggren astonishes by positioning himself in the second place of ENDURO 2. Today the former Junior world champion is becoming the leader of Swedish enduro. And this faithful of the Husaberg factory hopes to get closer for a world crown as soon as possible.ABC : The WEC was on holidays for a few weeks, how did you spend this break? Joakim LJUNGGR...

Spain's Ivan Cervantes remains at the top of the points standings in the MAXXIS FIM Enduro World Championship E3 category after two top-three finishes in Sardinia.The KTM rider finished third and first at Iglesias. France's Sebastien Guillaume (Husqvarna) won the opening day from France's Christophe Nambotin (Gas-Gas) and Cervantes. Day two saw Cervantes take the win ahead of Guillaume and Finland...

Finn Juha Salminen has secured the BMW Motorrad Motorsport team’s first ever World Enduro Championship double podium result having placed third in the Enduro 2 class on both days of the GP of Italy, staged in Iglesias, Sardinia. With the opening two rounds of the championship in Portugal and Spain having ended disappointingly for Salminen the GP of Italy - round three of the ’09 WEC series - finis...

In Sardinia, WEC’s mechanics were severely tested. Solicited in the long portions of rally, or mistreated in the stones which strew the course, the motorbikes suffered during this second day of the GRAND PRIX SURFLEX OF ITALY. Among the many DNF of the day, let us quote those of David KNIGHT (GB-BMW), victim of clutch problems, and the beginner Taddy BLAZUSIAK (POL-KTM) whose clutch cover was dama...

The rain is definitely the surprise guest of this beginning of season on MAXXIS FIM WORLD ENDURO CHAMPIONSHIP. During the first day of the GRAND PRIX SURFLEX OF ITALY competed this Saturday in Iglesias, the stars of world enduro had to wipe some scattered showers. Before it becomes slippery, the Sardinian ground however did not miss piquancy, mixing hard ground and stone through mountainous postca...

Extreme enduro star Tadeusz Blazusiak will make his MAXXIS FIM Enduro World Championship debut for the season in Italy.The Polish rider, of the Red Bull KTM team, has entered the race at Iglesias in the Enduro 2 class for the event on April 18-19.The Italian round of the world championship will also see the return of Finnish rider Jari Mattila.Mattila has spent the early part of the season concent...

Less than one year ago, about a few tens of kilometres from L’Aquila, Terni and Piediluco welcomed the Italian Grand Prix. On April the 18th and 19th, the actors of the WEC will certainly have a moved feeling of sympathy for the victims of the seism that touched the heart of Italy. This year, MAXXIS FIM WEC leaves the continent in direction of Sardinia, and Iglesias to run the Grand Prix Surflex o...

Mika Ahola and Johnny Aubert are locked in a battle for the lead of the BMW Motorrad X Treme Test Award which features the best riders from the FIM Enduro World Championship.Finnish rider Ahola was untouchable at the opening round of the world championship in Portugal and leads the Enduro 1 points standings.Frenchman Aubert was a double winner at round two in Spain and heads the fight for the worl...