The motorcycle guidecross

What does the FFM ?

Motorbikescross is a democratic sport accessible to all. There are many tracks spread over the French territory for a prox maximum imitation with practitioners. Tracks with more or less elevation, mixing artificial and natural obstacles, always approved for safe practice. Then, there are three licenses to practice it according to your desires.

The training license (NET) which allows you to ride on all our national circuits outside of a sporting setting all year round. Or even a day thanks to our latest creations, the Circuit Pass or our "one event" licence. The national competition license (NCO) allows you to participate in races, score points in the context of championships and aim for a final classification.

The competition and the different categories

The International Motorcycling Federation is organizing a motorcycle world championship.cross . Taking place mainly in Europe, two championships are on its calendar: MXXNUMX, MXXNUMX

The MXXNUMX and MXXNUMX events take place on the same weekend and on the same circuit in the form of two races, the drivers take place on the starting grid in the place they obtain according to the qualifications . The driver with the best qualifying time chooses his place first (each race being counted in the final classification at the end of the season).

The first international "Motorcycle" racecross of Nations” took place in XNUMX in The Hague (Netherlands). This race continues to occur each year in a different country.

Major competition, the Motocross des nations (MXDN) contested at the end of the season, brings together the best drivers from each nation. The best American pilots are also often present, which makes this competition one of the rare occasions in the year when the pilots of the two major competitions oppose each other. Each nation fields three riders in different engine sizes (XNUMXcc, XNUMXcc, and Open).

This is the main motorcycle eventcross par teams. The XNUMX edition will be held on the mythical circuit of Red Bud (Michigan) next September XNUMX and XNUMX. In XNUMX, the competition will take place in Ernée (France).

Motorcycle competitionscross framed par FIM has several categories:

- MXGP, formerly MXXNUMX for XNUMX cc engines and XNUMX cc engines.

- XNUMX for XNUMX cc engines and XNUMX cc engines.

- XNUMX for XNUMX cc engines and XNUMX cc engines, deleted since XNUMX cc.

- Side-car : from XNUMX cm³ to XNUMX cm³ XNUMX-stroke and up to XNUMX cm³ XNUMX-stroke.

- Quad: from XNUMX cc XNUMX-stroke up to XNUMXcc.

The XNUMX-stroke engines pollute more than the XNUMX-stroke engines, they are gradually being abandoned for the XNUMX-strokes only. Environmental constraints (pollution) push to gradually abandon the XNUMX-stroke engine, which is hardly used at high level anymore. Austrian manufacturer KTM is producing the XNUMX KTM with a XNUMXcc XNUMX-stroke engine in order to compete in the same class as the XNUMX's XNUMX-stroke.

There is also a very popular competition that stems from motorcyclingcross (MX): the supercross (SX).

This more spectacular American practice is simply motorcyclingcross indoor. It takes place on an artificial track laid out indoors, in a stadium or in an exhibition centre. It is a short track which is more open to jumps and overtaking. In France par example, the Supercross de Bercy has always attracted crowds and the media. The first test of Supercross which took place in France in September XNUMX, during the Bol d'or, organized on an artificial ground marked out with a bulldozer, within the enclosure of the circuit of Le Mans.