Press ReleaseMeeting of the Nordic Motorsport Council in Reykjavík

(Iceland)

On October 7th the annual Nordic Motorsport Council meeting took place at the HiltonReykjavík Nordic Hotel, hosted by the Icelandic Motorcycle and Snowmobile Association.The Presidents and Secretaries General of DMU (Denmark), MSI (Iceland), NMF (Norway),SML (Finland) and Svemo (Sweden) took part to the meeting. Also FIM Europe 1st Deputy President Martin de Graaff and Secretary General AlessandroSambuco were present.“It was a great pleasure to host the NMC conference this year and have our colleaguesfrom the Nordic countries and visitors from FIM Europe visit Iceland”, stated HrafnkellSigtryggsson, NMC President. “There are many similarities among the countries despitetheir different sizes and we all seem to share the same challenges within the motorcy-cling sports. The opportunity to have discussions like this and share ideas and solutionsamong us is immensly valuable, especially for us in Iceland as we are still developing ourspoŕting environment".On the Agenda there were a general overview on the activities for each present FMN andmany issues of common interest.

From left: Alessandro Sambuco, Karl Gunnlaugsson, Tapio Nevala, Hrafnkell Sigtryggssson NMC Pre-sident, Martin de Graaff, Jorgen Bitsch, Roy Wetterstad, Juhani Halme, Emilie Westbye, Per Velde,Per Westling, Jonas Nygaard Nielsen, Hakan Leeman, Kurt Ljungqvist

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PRESS RELEASE nr. 284/2017 - October 8th 2017FOR MORE INFORMATION: Fiammetta La Guidara

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At the end of the meeting Mr. de Graaff stated: “In this meeting many interesting is-sues have been discussed. The good cooperation among these five Scandinavian Fe-derations has been already existing for many years. The exchange of goodexperiences and ideas is in favour of all of Nordic Federations, but also for the gene-ral benefit of Motorsport. Also the common challenges for these and other Federa-tions have been highlighted. “After this meeting with Presidents and Secretaries General, they can work togetherto improve the duties and plans of all the involved persons. The several sportingcommissions of the Nordic Federations are working also together in order to achievethe goals of the boards. “For FIM Europe contacts of this kind are important, in our strategy the Federationsare making the future plans for the European Motorsport. We appreciated the many'learning' moments for our organization.Thanks to the Nordic Federations, especiallyto MSI for their hospitality and good atmosphere”.

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