OKKO filling stations network and fuel Pulls 95 were the fuel partners of the first stage of the Ukrainian Championship in group Б and of the Fourteenth Interregional Motocross Competition. The races occurred on May 24-25 in Mukachevo, not far from the ancient castle “Palanok”. Motocross is a kind of competition on special motorcycles that is held out of the ways of general use on closed route with special obstacles.  Sportsmen of the same class start simultaneously and chase each other. It should be noted that children from 5 years old compete alongside with the grown-up sportsmen.  This time the route length equalled to 2,075 meters and contained 13 spring-boards.

The races began with training heats and gathered about 5 thousand viewers. 7 classes of motorcycles differing from each other on engine displacement, power and cooling system participated at scoring races. All in all, 80 participants took place in competition.  The sportsmen surprised with their fastness, mastery of overcoming obstacles, and showy spring-board jump-offs.

The results of the first stage of the Ukrainian Motocross Championship:
500 cc class (with water-cooling system)
1st place – Andriy Makhankov, Svalyava
2nd place – Oleh Skrypnikov, Chernivtsi
3d place – Anatoliy Palavniy, Kolomyya
500 cc class (with air-cooling system)
1st place – Anatoliy Kraynov, Svalyava
2nd place – Volodymyr Yatsyuk, Kovel
3rd place – Viktor Stehura, Uzhhorod
125 cc class (with air-cooling system)
1st place – Yuriy Naumchyk, Kovel
2nd place – Viktor Budryk, Khmelnytskyy
3rd place – Atilla Erdeliy, Uzhhorod
125 cc class (with water-cooling system)
1st place – Rostyslav Voytsytskyy, Svalyava
2nd place – Volodymyr Zavodskyy, Ivano-Frankivsk
3rd place – Denys Yehorov, Rakhiv
85 cc class
1st place – Rostyslav Voytsytskyy, Svalyava
2nd place – Ruslan Pavlyuk
3rd place – Dmytro Rysalyuk
65 cc class
1st place – Myroslav Rosashchuk, Svalyava
2nd place – Dmytro Hrymalyuk, Svalyava
3rd place – Volodymyr Lohur, Svalyava
50 cc class
1st place – Volodymyr Fitsyk, Svalyava
2nd place – Bohdan Demykh, Khust
3rd place – Maksym Popelyuk, Kolomyya