FIM Pro Stock Bike


Åland based Fredrik Fredlund secured his fourth FIM-Europe Pro Stock Bike championship (and third in succession) in comfortable fashion with a low qualifying 7.0511, round wins over Roy Olsen (with a 7.1546), Kenneth Holmberg (dispatched with a 7.0680) and the other form PSB racer of the season Gert-Jan Laseur in the final with a 7.0422 to a 7.1800. The only frustration, and this is getting quite annoying for the PAF Suzuki rider, being the absence of a six second ticket on this side of the pond (he has achieved this on visits to the States).

FIM Super Street Bike Cup

We really didn’t expect to write this after the season he had had to date, but Steve Venables emerged from the Super Street Bike Cup as points winner with the D.M.E. Hayabusa he debuted at the start of the season. Although a couple of early season rainoffs bunched things up in the four event series, Ven came into the event someway behind points leaders Mogens Lund and Shawn Buttgieg and just behind 2013 title holder Garry Bowe. Lund saw his title aspirations go away in the first round of eliminations whilst the other three advanced. The quarters had Buttgieg (who had qualified low with a 7.2076) departing the scene and Bowe cranking out a class low ET of 7.1786/203.32 (a new PB). Into the final four and both Bowe and Ven progressed with the latter gaining lane choice with a 7.2761/199 defeat of Graham Balchin and the former running a 7.3242/202.43 to overcome a skyward pointing Luke Farrugia. In the final, it was Bowe’s turn to hike the front wheel away from the startline, whilst Venables pulled a substantial holeshot thanks to a 0.0215 RT and pulled away to a 7.2034/200.65 to better Bowe’s game 7.3308/200.78.

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