Denmark claimed the final international prize of 2024 after Rasmus Jensen and Frederik Jakobsen raced to victory at the European Pairs Championship in Lonigo Former Danish champion Jensen dropped just one point on his way to a sensational 17 with Jakobsen backing him up with 10 as Denmark triumphed on 27 points Outgoing champions Poland faced a run-off for the silver medal with Great Britain after the teams tied on 23 points The head-to-head showdown saw Poland’s 2023 SGP2 bronze medallist Bartlomiej Kowalski defeat GB star Tom Brennan as the Lions were forced to make do with bronze Double SGP2 champion Mateusz Cierniak starred for Poland with 12 points over their six heats Two-time FIM Speedway of Nations gold medallist Brennan dropped just two points on his way to 16 for the Lions with Leon Flint adding five and Dan Thompson contributing two with Jesse Mustonen racing to 11 and Antti Vuolas adding four led by nine points from FIM SGP Challenge finalist Paco Castagna Jevgenijs Kostigovs scoring seven and OlyBet FIM Speedway GP of Latvia – Riga wild card Daniils Kolodinskis accruing five EKSTRALIGA | VACULIK LEADS GORZOW TO DERBY DELIGHT ZMARZLIK LANDS MAXIMUM POINTS IN LANDSHUT AFTER SPEEDWAY GP & SPRINT DOUBLE ZMARZLIK TAKES SPEEDWAY GP WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP LEAD AFTER WINNING LANDSHUT SPRINT RACE This section of the website is exclusively reserved for members of the FIM Family: CONUs members and honorary members of the commissions You are a member of the FIM Family and do not have your access? Do not hesitate to contact us Sign in The FIM is also involved in non-sport activities - tourism or sport-related activities such as women in motorcycling sustainability is linked to both sporting and non-sporting areas as is the educational side we are developing to get the new generation on 2 wheels We inform you about all aspects of the motorcycling world The contest to decide the starting line-up for the 2024 FIM Speedway Grand Prix World Championship Challenge got under way this afternoon with a pair of Qualifying rounds staged at Abensberg in Germany and Debrecen in Hungary   At stake was a place at Pardubice in the Czech Republic on 4 October for the Challenge event that will determine the four riders who will be given an automatic starting place in the 2025 FIM Speedway Grand Prix World Championship (SGP) With four from each Qualifying round going through to Pardubice – where they will be joined by riders who progress via the second set of Qualifying rounds staged this coming Saturday (25 May) in Lonigo in Italy and Žarnovica in Slovakia – competition was intense at both events The action kicked off at Abensberg in Germany in the Wack Hofmeister Speedway Stadium where Denmark’s Rasmus Jensen started his afternoon with victory in the opening Heat race and following the first block of racing he was joined on three points by experienced Australian Max Fricke home hero Kai Huckenbeck and Italy’s Felipe Nicolas Covatti Covatti’s hopes of winning a place behind the tapes at Pardubice ended with retirements in his second and fourth Heats as Poland’s Dominik Kubera took his place in the all-important top four with a victory in his second Heat a three-time national champion who is currently lying eleventh in this year’s SGP series was in fantastic form and the thirty-one-year-old added three more victories to his scorecard His sole defeat came in his fifth and final Heat when he finished second to Kubera but this was easily good enough to secure the top step of the podium and send him to the Czech Republic in October The remaining three transfer positions were fiercely contested Having dropped two points each in their first four Heats Kubera and Fricke – who won an SGP round in 2020 and again in 2022 and was a member of Australia’s victorious team at the 2022 FIM Speedway of Nations – needed to sign off with strong performances and all three rose to the occasion booking their places in Pardubice with wins in the fifth block Tying one point behind Huckenbeck on thirteen the trio then contested a Run-Off to decide the podium places with Jensen emerging on top from Kubera and Fricke the Perényi Pál Salakmotor Stadion in Debrecen was the scene of a titanic battle – although the winner in Hungary was clear-cut with Poland’s Przemyslaw Pawlicki producing an identical scorecard to Huckenbeck After sweeping to victory in his first four Heats the thirty-two-year-old – who made his SGP debut all the way back in 2010 – was second in his final race of the afternoon but his accumulated points were sufficient to place him on the top step of the podium and send him to Pardubice Getting his afternoon under way with a pair of second-placed finishes thirty-nine-year-old Brazilian-born Swede Antonio Lindbäck – who has scored twelve podiums including three victories in an SGP career stretching back to 2004 – then put together a run of three successive wins to claim second overall but behind him it was too close to call with three riders locked together on twelve points following the fifth Heat With the final two Qualifying positions on the line Kacper Woryna from Poland and dynamic Dane Frederik Jakobsen took their places behind the tapes for the deciding Run-Off made no mistake to take the chequered flag in front for third overall with Woryna edging out Jakobsen for the final place in the Czech Republic in early autumn  Focus now switches to Lonigo and Žarnovica in five days’ time where the line-up for the FIM Speedway Grand Prix World Championship Challenge will be finalised You can watch the action live from Lonigo and Žarnovica on www.FIM-MOTO.TV Czech racer Jan Kvech took a stride closer to securing FIM Speedway Grand Prix qualification for 2025 after topping the podium at Italian track Lonigo to book his place at the FIM SGP Challenge in Pardubice on October 4 Kvech is one of SEVEN Speedway GP riders who will defend their place in the series on the opening night of the Czech track’s famous Golden Helmet weekend where the top four riders are guaranteed places in the 2025 Speedway GP series German racer Kai Huckenbeck and Poland’s Dominik Kubera in the FIM SGP Challenge Swedish racer Antonio Lindback and Poland’s Przemyslaw Pawlicki are all battling for returns to the series while former Danish champion Rasmus Jensen former Aussie champion Brady Kurtz and Italian star Paco Castagna are all bidding to qualify for the first time who represents his country in the Orlen FIM Speedway GP of Czech Republic – Prague next Saturday crashed out of the Trans MF FIM Speedway GP of Germany – Landshut last Saturday and underwent a week of intense physio on a hand injury It paid off big time as he won the SGP qualifier at Lonigo on 14 points – dropping just one to Speedway GP rival Dan Bewley in his third ride Kvech will now be the sole Czech rider in the FIM SGP Challenge which takes place just six days after the 2024 SGP finale in Torun on September 28 GB star Bewley will also take part in the FIM SGP Challenge after finishing second in Lonigo on 13 points Speedway GP World Championship contender Jack Holder is currently second in this year’s series – firmly inside the top-six automatic qualification places for 2025 But he finished third in Italy to secure himself the insurance policy of an FIM SGP Challenge spot He defeated home hero Paco Castagna in a run-off for third place after they tied on 12 points Former World Under-21 champion Jaimon Lidsey just missed out on 11 with Germany’s Kevin Wolbert exiting on 10 and current SGP star Szymon Wozniak – third at the 2023 FIM SGP Challenge – falling short of this year’s event after scoring nine In the day’s earlier qualifier at Slovak circuit Zarnovica former Danish champion Anders Thomsen stepped up his Speedway GP return bid as he topped the podium on 14 points He was followed into the FIM SGP Challenge by former world No.2 Patryk Dudek Aussie international Brady Kurtz defeated GB racer Robert Lambert in a run-off for third place after they tied on 12 Lambert was in danger of missing out on a Pardubice place with only three qualifiers guaranteed from the Zarnovica round to allow one spot for a home wild card at the FIM SGP Challenge if no Czech rider qualified for the meeting Lambert breathes a huge sigh of relief as he takes his place in Pardubice Slovak star Martin Vaculik made a shock exit from the qualifiers on his boyhood track – scoring 10 points – a total matched by American international Luke Becker Sweden’s 2021 SGP regular Oliver Berntzon fell short on nine along with Czech racer Vaclav Milik who misses out on the FIM SGP Challenge at his home club Pardubice FIM SGP CHALLENGE LINE-UP (not in riding order): Kai Huckenbeck (Germany) The European Pairs Speedway Final was held at Lonigo (Italy) in front of 1800 spetactors in a sunny day It was an entertaining meeting with a lot of close racing and several passes especially in the first half of the meeting Poland won the 2017 Pairs Championship dominating the meeting The runner-up place went to Russia while France climbed on the last step of the rostrum The hosting Country Italy finished at the fourth place with Covatti scoring 12 points out of 15 of the total of the team Full results on FIM Europe website: http://www.fim-europe.eu/events/470 | Copyright 2025 FIM Europe | Terms of use - Privacy statement | Pierluigi Portinari began his culinary journey within the family environment working in the butcher shop and rotisserie managed by his father transforming the 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vegetables and drank pure water — or so she thought.  Although it's very difficult to prove direct causality the thyroid cancer diagnosis coincided with the discovery that a chemical plant operated by the a company named Miteni had been discharging a group of hormone-altering substances known as per- and polyfluoroalkyl (PFAS) polluting drinking water in parts of the Veneto region “It felt like my entire life had been shattered,” Bà said.  now stands accused of causing Europe’s biggest PFAS-related environmental disaster Over 350,000 residents in Veneto are estimated to have been exposed to contamination through tap water Miteni is now facing a court case; two preliminary hearings were held on October 12 and November 30 Bà is among over 200 plaintiffs in the trial and one of the residents of 21 hard-hit municipalities labeled a “red zone.”  Radiation therapy dealt Bà and her family a hard blow. “When you’re sick, it’s not only about you. Everyone becomes sick with you,” she said. The 28-year-old schoolteacher is now hoping to start a family, but the chances are slim. Studies point to a correlation between PFAS and pregnancy complications hypertension and cancer 10 percent to 25 percent above the national average.  Thirteen managers from Miteni and its main shareholders — Luxembourg’s International Chemical Investors Group (ICIG) and Japan’s Mitsubishi Corporation — now face criminal charges for pollution and environmental disaster.  A police investigation seen by POLITICO found Miteni had been aware since 1990 of the pollution ICIG and Mitsubishi did not issue statements on the matter and did not respond to requests for comment.  a lawyer with the prosecution in the trial expects the defendants to plead not guilty at the next hearing will kickstart a trial that Ceruti said will be “extremely complex” and that will last one to two years.  the managers risk jail time and could pay tens of millions of euros in penalties Veneto’s regional authority and water-service providers are demanding that the polluter pay Veneto has already spent over €2 million on installing activated carbon filters by water-service providers and the Italian National Institute for Environmental Protection and Research (ISPRA) estimated the total cost of the clean-up at €136.8 million.  Grassroots organizations admitted as plaintiffs at the trial will also seek answers on how an environmental disaster of such proportions could have occurred a member of the No Pfas Moms committee — a network of mothers leading the charge against Miteni — said she felt angry and betrayed by the company and by the public institutions supposed to keep it in check.  “When pregnant you’re careful about everything Then you discover that all the while you had been poisoning your child,” she said And how can we trust it won’t happen again?”  PFAS became ubiquitous before their long-term environmental and health risks were fully understood PFAS are used in an array of products thanks to their water-repellent properties: pizza cartons firefighting foam and even pharmaceuticals.  The group of around 4,000 chemicals is known as “forever chemicals” because they don’t break down and can accumulate over time in soil and water only two derivatives of the PFAS group — PFOA and PFOS — have been regulated in the EU under the Stockholm Convention and the REACH chemicals regulation but companies have been quick to switch to other That's why the European Commission proposed last month in its chemicals strategy to phase out all non-essential PFAS using a group approach that is designed to avoid companies switching to alternatives began testing hydro-repellent textile materials in 1964 The company was acquired and renamed by Mitsubishi and EniChem — the chemical branch of Italian oil giant ENI — in 1988.  According to an Italian parliamentary inquiry Mitsubishi held 90 percent of shares between 1997 and 2001 during which time it commissioned environmental assessments and “had knowledge of the pollution of the groundwater on its site.” Miteni was bought by ICIG in 2009 and the inquiry suggests the company continued operating in the same way.  Veneto’s Regional Agency for the Protection of the Environment (ARPAV) lacked adequate tools to monitor wastewater discharges “Imagine asking the police to arrest a person in a big metropolis without having a name or a description,” said Luca Marchesi ARPAV must have the equivalent of a suspect’s identikit referred to as the “standard.” This is only available for those chemicals regulated at the national level Veneto’s potable water was therefore certified as safe but only against the available standards.   “What we need is a regulatory system that enables us to conduct tests when the chemicals are introduced rather than when it’s too late,” Marchesi said.  Italy's National Research Council (CNR) set out to monitor the presence of PFAS in the country in 2013 News of the contamination of Veneto’s drinking-water took center stage but the study revealed the breadth of the crisis in water bodies across Italy “PFAS are everywhere,“ said Stefano Polesello “The problem with these substances is that they do not biodegrade but accumulate in the organism” and in the food chain.   Miteni stopped producing long-chain perfluoroalkylated compounds (PFOA and PFOS) in 2011 but continued making short-chain perfluorocrystalline compounds — ostensibly safer PFAS but ones that research found were also persistent and better able to accumulate in plants which may lead to increases in human dietary exposure Several EU countries have set drinking water limits for some groups of PFAS and Italy is discussing a draft law expected to be approved by the end of the year that goes in this direction Polesello called this a “fig leaf” and said all such chemicals should be replaced with biodegradable substances.  “It’s easier to stop something from happening then to repair the damage afterwards,” Polesello said A crackdown in Italy is sending garbage elsewhere in Europe The final eight riders progressing to the 2024 FIM Speedway Grand Prix World Championship Challenge were decided today following the last pair of Qualifying rounds – staged in Žarnovica in Slovakia and Lonigo in Italy – to determine the starting line-up at Pardubice in the Czech Republic on 4 October   At stake in the autumn will be four invaluable full-time positions behind the tapes for the 2025 FIM Speedway Grand Prix World Championship (SGP) and with such a glittering prize awaiting them in Pardubice it was no surprise that competitors at both Qualifying rounds came out fighting Despite carrying a shoulder injury the star of the show in Žarnovica was Denmark’s Anders Thomsen who was fifteenth in last year’s SGP series after missing the final three rounds following hand surgery dropped just one point during the course of the afternoon to book his place in Pardubice Sharing the lead after the opening block of four Heats with Robert Lambert from Great Britain home favourite Martin Vaculik and Luke Becker from the USA Thomsen moved to the front on his own when he won his second Heat and he maintained this advantage after victory in his third Heat took his total to nine points With the top four booking their places in Pardubice as long as a Czech rider qualified for the Challenge event Poland’s Patryk Dudek moved into contention tied with Lambert on eight points following the third block of Heats with swift Swede Oliver Berntzon next in line on seven Becker revived his hopes of making the cut when he inflicted Thomsen’s only defeat of the afternoon in his fourth Heat which moved him up to eight points three behind Thomsen who was now tied at the top with Dudek ahead of a three-way tie on nine points between Australia’s Brady Kurtz Thomsen then made sure of the top step of the podium with his fourth win of the afternoon in his final Heat but behind him the tension was reaching boiling point A retirement in his third Heat had put Vaculik – currently sitting seventh in SGP – on the back foot and despite signing off with two wins he ended the day tied with Becker for fifth while a second-placed finish behind Kurtz ensured Dudek went through leaving the Australian joint third with Lambert who also won his final Heat In the Run-Off for the third step of the podium – and the final guaranteed place in the Challenge event – it was Kurtz who came out on top leaving Lambert with an anxious wait to see if Jan Kvěch the only remaining Czech rider in the competition would make the cut from the evening programme at Lonigo Kvěch was in fine form just a few hours later and the twenty-two-year-old only dropped one point to top the Italian podium and comfortably progress to the Challenge event With two wins and two second places from his opening four Heats in Italy Dan Bewley went into his final Heat knowing that second would secure him a place in the top four but the twenty-five-year-old British racer – currently sixth in the SGP standings – was not about to settle for position and he raced to his third win of the programme to end the evening a clear second Holding down second in the 2024 SGP title fight Australia’s Jack Holder was one of the pre-race favourites but after dropping points in his first two Heats he needed back-to-back wins in his third and fourth Heats to drag himself back into contention before he made sure of his place in Pardubice with second in his fifth Heat Local hero Michele Paco Castagna had started the evening with three wins before a single point in his fourth Heat dropped him into the danger zone but he fired back with second in his final Heat race to tie with Holder before losing third in the Run-Off to the Australian The first four from both Slovakia and Italy will now join the eight successful riders from Monday’s two Qualifying rounds in Germany and Hungary for a date with destiny in the Czech Republic on 4 October STREAM LIVE ON www.FIM-MOTO.TV ‘that’s how the stairway from being pleonastic becomes fantastic.’ images © simone bossi | @simonebossiphotographer a connective element between two worlds, AMAA‘s ‘pleonastic is fantastic’ stair is at once a rising pathway and a scenographic background the escherian element is embraced by and integrated into the space and simultaneously stands as an intrusive addition that demarcates the tension between old and new the stairway rises out of the new concrete ground plane which allows a three-centimeter reveal along the walls this subtle detail serves to embrace the natural rusticated crumbling of the inner walls’ surfaces with its ‘pleonastic is fantastic’ intervention AMAA revitalizes the derelict building in lonigo the northern italian structure is characterized by thick stone walls and by a timber roof truss the meticulous restoration involved the careful search and the recovery of salvaged materials from other similar local sites to be integrated into the original roof the team introduces handcrafted and rusted steel window fixtures highlighted by delicate handles along with the restoration of the original wooden floor project title: pleonastic is fantastic architecture: AMAA photography: simone bossi | @simonebossiphotographer happening now! partnering with antonio citterio, AXOR presents three bathroom concepts that are not merely places of function, but destinations in themselves — sanctuaries of style, context, and personal expression. the Santa Marina Stadium in Lonigo has become the center of the Italian speedway producing champions for a deadly sport that rarely makes it past a local audience Their crowds are often small and the riders’ jerseys are emblazoned with small-business logos This is the world documented by photographer Alessandro Simonetti during his time photographing the speedway racers of Northern Italy Following our obsession with speed and the freedom-body that led to our Motocross Collection What type of racing are you showing in these images The work portrays a really singular practice of motorbikes It’s at the bottom of the motorbike pyramid – the least accessible and definitely the kind that has lost the most hype from sponsorships and crowds The races take place on anti-clockwise dirt oval tracks and the riders slide their bikes sideways The origin of this practice is lost in the dust but the first appearance of speedbikes happened even before the First World War in the US and eventually gained traction in Australia in the 1910s and 20s The FIM [Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme] regulations state that the motorcycles must have no brakes What is the connection between Italy and speedway Speedway arrived in Italy after the Second World War and found a perfect playground on the abandoned horse-racing tracks of Udine and Trieste in the northeast of Italy UK soldiers were using street bikes adjusted to fit the track and they were actually responsible for building the hype for a practice that was never before seen in Italy The Lonigo horse tracks were eventually blessed by the Italian “King of Speed” Dario Basso who tested the track with his Gilera and declared it practicable for official competitions – this was before several riders got injured and died Lonigo decided on a proper stadium to be able to host the increasing number of riders eventually giving birth to local champs like Paolo Noro I had various scooters during my youth: a Booster but because of the skateboard and snowboard scene I had the chance to follow the early career of one of the most influential FMX riders in Italy I met him at the Academy of Fine Arts in the late 90s while we were both students and witnessed his shift from dirt jumps and basic tricks to metal ramps and backflips That was the peak of my relationship with motorbikes – it’s just an aesthetic-platonic crash I grew up with two women and there was no MotoGP or Formula One running on our TV so it was a random encounter which revealed my infatuation toward this subject I always think of Italy being famous for fancy red sports cars How is Motocross considered culturally by Italians Italy has a long tradition and passion for cars and motorbikes especially in the northeast where I come from You easily see five-year-old kids rocking the tracks Could you expand on some of the behind-the-scenes stories from when you took these pictures I spent some time with a few riders while they were preparing the bikes speedway is the most dangerous of all the bike sports but what the rider said revealed a strong passion and sense of pride for this sport that suffers from a total lack of attention The sponsors that were embroidered on their leather suits were all local companies I think what captured me at first was the style of the speedway posters that I saw when I was little: duotone black and yellow guerrilla wheat paste on suburban walls What keeps you coming back to these bikes and their riders the absolute absence of high-end technology the moves and attitude on the track – they perfectly fit my aesthetic in photography I shot the whole competition on film with an old Nikon set pushing the ISO beyond and not caring about having a rough result in terms of contrasts and grain Do you think there is a political aspect tied to motorbike sports think about the Futurism movement of the early twentieth century that emphasized speed as well as objects like cars and motorbikes Conceiving of speed as a tool to move faster in order to leave behind the weight of the Italian past I also see a thin religious vein in the sport I’m not referring to the faith you might need to push yourself to that level of racing – it’s more a simmering anti-religious attitude of putting your life at risk against the will of god STILE DUCATI: The Anatomy of a Speed Aesthetic STEPHEN BAYLEY on CRASHED CARS and the DEATH OF THE MODERN ERA Un Rendez-Vous with Parisian Car Dealer ARTHUR KARAKOUMOUCHIAN The fight for a coveted place behind the tapes at the 2025 FIM Speedway Grand Prix World Championship (SGP) gets under way in just a few days’ time when a series of Qualifying rounds are staged in Abensberg in Germany and Debrecen in Hungary this coming Monday (20 May) and in Lonigo in Italy and Žarnovica in Slovakia the following Saturday (25 May)   A total of seventy-two competitors will line up across the four events with the top four riders from each transferring to the FIM Speedway Grand Prix World Championship Challenge event at Pardubice in the Czech Republic on 4 October   In the event of no Czech riders progressing via the Qualifying rounds only the top three finishers from Žarnovica will go through and the final place at the Challenge will be filled by a Czech wild card The top four riders in Pardubice – increased from three in 2023 – will earn their places among the elite riders in the 2025 SGP series   With only the top six from this year’s SGP series gaining a guaranteed automatic place in the 2025 line-up the Challenge has once again attracted a high-class entry with a number of current SGP stars who view the event as additional insurance for the following season opting to compete   Winner of the Challenge in 2023 that was held in Gislaved in Sweden Australia’s Jason Doyle is currently leading the 2024 SGP standings after two rounds with Slovakian Martin Vaculik and Poland’s Szymon Wozniak – who completed the Challenge podium last year – both holding down positions inside the top ten   Among the 2024 SGP riders taking to the shale on Monday is Andzejs Lebedevs who has so far achieved a season-best finish of twelfth which came at the second round of the championship in Warsaw in Poland in the middle of May The Latvian will contest the qualifying round in Debrecen where riders he will line up against include Frederik Jakobsen from Denmark Sweden’s Jacob Thorssell and Polish racer Przemyslaw Pawlicki who all made it through to last year’s Challenge event before being eliminated   The Qualifying rounds are always a truly international occasion and this year’s entry for Debrecen alone features competitors from three continents and thirteen different nations Monday’s action kicks off in the Wack Hofmeister Speedway Stadium with the first Heat scheduled for 14:00 local time Racing in the Perényi Pál Salakmotor Stadion in Debrecen is scheduled to start at 16:00 local time You can watch the action live from Abensberg, Lonigo and Žarnovica on FIM-MOTO.TV. 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The Championship was close and competitive in the fight for the title the fireworks fizzled out and Team Poland this time handed over the crown to Team Denmark Rasmus Jensen and Fredrik Jakobsen made the difference and took the European Pairs Speedway Championship’s title After a delay of three hours due to track remedial works following the heavy rain fell during the week before the meeting spectators could enjoy a real challenge with a very interesting meeting The Danish pair was on maximum points after four exits and seemed on course to a full maximum but dropped a couple of points to rampant Tom Brennan Leon Flint and Dan Thompson from Great Britain On the deciding heat against outgoing Polish champions they collected the necessary points to claim the first step on the rostrum which lined up a very young pair -Mateusz Cierniak and Bartlomiej Kowalski- conquered an impressive second place ahead of the British pair on the run-off Cette section du site est exclusivement réservée aux membres de la Famille FIM: CONU membres et membres honoraires des commissions Vous êtes membre de la Famille FIM et n'avez pas votre accès? N'hésitez pas à nous contacter Se connecter La FIM est également impliquée dans des activités non sportives - tourisme mobilité ou activités liées au sport telles que les femmes dans le motocyclisme la durabilité est liée à la fois aux domaines sportifs et non sportifs tout comme l'aspect éducatif que nous développons pour amener la nouvelle génération sur deux roues Les deuxièmes tours de qualification pour déterminer les qualifiés pour le Challenge du Championnat du Monde FIM des Grands Prix de Speedway sont programmés pour ce samedi 25 mai à Lonigo en Italie et à Žarnovica en Slovaquie.  En jeu à Pardubice lors du Challenge : quatre places permanentes dans le Championnat du Monde FIM de Speedway Grand Prix (SGP) 2025 il y a d'autres enjeux urgents à régler avec trente-six pilotes qui se battent encore pour leur droit de participer au Challenge Huit espoirs affamés ont déjà franchi l'étape des qualifications après les premiers tours à Abensberg en Allemagne et Debrecen en Hongrie en début de semaine Le plateau final sera complété par quatre pilotes italiens et quatre slovaques seuls trois pilotes slovaques passeront à Žarnovica la dernière place à Pardubice étant attribuée à une Wild-Card tchèque Il n'y a pas grand grande différence dans la qualité  entre les grilles de départ de Lonigo et Žarnovica chacune comptant trois pilotes ayant participé au SGP 2024 l'épreuve italienne semble légèrement plus forte au regard des résultats de cette saison l'Australien Jack Holder est sans doute le favori a fait partie de l'équipe victorieuse du Championnat du Monde FIM des Nations de Speedway (SON) en 2022 et occupe actuellement la deuxième place du classement SGP après avoir remporté une victoire et une troisième place lors des trois épreuves déjà disputées cette saison la principale opposition de Holder pourrait venir de Dan Bewley qui faisait partie de l'équipe victorieuse du SON 2021 est toujours à la recherche de son premier podium de la saison l'événement a attiré un contingent italien solide qui cherche à tirer parti de la course sur sa piste de shale du Danemark et de Suède seront également présents dans un plateau véritablement international Žarnovica a également ses poids lourds avec le Britannique Robert Lambert parmi les favoris qui a gravi la plus haute marche du podium aux côtés de Bewley au SON 2021 a débuté la saison SGP de manière brillante et occupe la quatrième place du classement après les trois premières manches avec un podium lors de la deuxième manche en Pologne Seulement trois places derrière Lambert au classement SGP Martin Vaculik tentera de maximiser son avantage à domicile Au moins treize nations seront représentées à Žarnovica, ce qui en fait un autre plateau international, ce qui est tout à fait normal étant donné le prix potentiellement déterminant pour la carrière qui attend quatre pilotes à Pardubice. Vous pouvez suivre les course en direct de Lonigo et de Žarnovica sur www.FIM-MOTO.TV Norick Blödorn) won the QR of the European Pairs Speedway Championship With team Germany on the first step of the podium it was an exciting challenge until the last for the two qualifying spots with team Great Britain (Tom Brennan Ashton Boughen) and team Czech Republic (Jan Kvéch thanks to a very good performance by its leader Brennan the second place went to Great Britain thanks to one point It is worth noting that Andriy Karpov came to Germany straight from Ukraine to take part in the competition as the only Ukrainian representative The Final of the European Pairs Speedway Championship will be held in Lonigo Industry news and insights from Europe and around the World Keep up-to-date with the latest new products and technology ITALY: Controls manufacturer Carel has worked with refrigerated cabinet manufacturer Arneg to provide high efficiency CO2 refrigeration for a new Famila supermarket in the northern Italian town of Lonigo Supermarket owner Maxi Di Srl chose Arneg to create an environmentally-sustainable food refrigeration system while at the same time ensuring the highest efficiency on the market The 2,300m² store employs an eight compressor Arneg Booster transcritical rack supplying over 50 refrigerated cabinets – 44 medium temperature and 13 low temperature All the cabinets are equipped with Carel’s MPX PRO electronic controllers The CO2 compressor rack is controlled by Carel’s pRack pR300T and three Carel EmJ modulating ejectors for a total capacity of 185kW This solution is said to bring energy savings during the summer of up to of 25% via the heat recovery system that provides heating inside the building The entire system is supervised by Arneg service through its IRIS Energy control centre managing unforeseen events and energy wastage also thanks to the Carel boss supervisor which acquires system data and organises these onto a dashboard for predictive maintenance.  Arneg has been working effectively with Carel Research and technological innovation have allowed us over time to offer increasingly efficient and environmentally-friendly solutions just like the one at the Famila supermarket in Lonigo,” commented Enrico Zambotto Arneg’s refrigeration engineering director “As evidence of how much we are investing in this technology we also now adopting ejectors in other installations Cooling Post is the leading online resource covering latest news and developments in the cooling industry air conditioning news and the latest heat pump developments Privacy & Cookie Policy © Copyright 2025, Cooling Post Ltd - All Rights Reserved | Website by Capital Web Former Speedway GP star Anders Thomsen faces a race against time to be fit for Saturday’s FIM Speedway Grand Prix qualifiers after suffering a dislocated shoulder at Vojens on Wednesday Thomsen crashed in heat five of the club’s Danish Speedwayligaen home match with Slangerup and was taken to hospital where tests confirmed he suffered no fractures According to Vojens’ official Facebook page Thomsen’s shoulder “jumped out of the joint” and he is set to undergo treatment at Team Denmark’s physio centre in Århus ahead of his SGP qualifier at Slovak circuit Zarnovica on Saturday The post read: “Anders Thomsen has been for a checkup at Odense University Hospital after the crash last night “Jacob Olsen says that Anders' shoulder had jumped out of the joint and that he will be treated at Team Denmark in Århus in the next few days “We wish Anders a speedy recovery and hope he'll be ready for Saturday when he'll be riding in a SGP qualification round.” Thomsen takes on the likes of local hero Martin Vaculik Swedish star Oliver Berntzon and German young gun Norick Blodorn The other qualifier takes place at Italian track Lonigo and features Speedway GP world title contender Jack Holder and three-time SGP winner Dan Bewley Speedway GP newcomers Jan Kvech and Szymon Wozniak are also in action along with former World Under-21 champion Jaimon Lidsey Latvian star Francis Gusts and Italian star Paco Castagna die schönsten Hütten und inspirierende Geschichten aus der Bergwelt handgefertigt und mit Liebe ausgesucht: hochwertiges Handwerk aus der Region Servus in Stadt & Land: Über 1.000 Rezepte aus dem Alpenraum was das Leben vor und hinter den Kulissen spannend macht Hier finden Sie alle Informationen zum TV-Programm von ServusTV sowie verpasste Sendungen in der Mediathek und den aktuellen Livestream carpe diem bietet wertvolle Inspirationen rund um Ernährung Wack Hofmeister (li.) mit Martin Smolinski wo 1995 der erste Grand Prix von Deutschland gefahren wurde Im Rahmen eines Vergleichsrennens zwischen einer Auswahl des MSC Abensberg und dem MC Lonigo wurde das Stadion feierlich in «Wack-Hofmeister-Speedway-Stadion» umbenannt Josef «Wack» Hofmeister wurde am 25 Juli 1934 in Abensberg geboren und begann nach Ende des 2 Weltkriegs im Jahr 1949 mit Motorradrennen Anfang der 60er-Jahre war Hofmeister der erste deutsche Bahnsportstar und wurde dreimal in Folge Europameister als es noch keine Weltmeisterschaft auf der Sandbahn gab Viermal fuhr Hofmeister im Speedway-Weltfinale und erreichte 1960 als Zehnter seine beste Platzierung Als sportlicher Programmpunkt lud der MSC Abensberg den befreundeten Club aus dem italienischen Lonigo Dieser entwickelte sich einseitig: Die Abensberger gewannen mit 69:15 Punkten und blieben nur einen Zähler unter Maximum Alle zwölf Vorläufe endeten mit 5:1 für die Gastgeber Lauf konnte Nicolas Vicentin einen zweiten Platz einfahren Ergebnisse Vergleichskampf MSC Abensberg vs