The motive of the Fano surface of lines
  The purpose of this note is to prove that the Chow motive of the Fano surface of lines on the smooth cubic threefold is finite-dimensional in the sense of Kimura. This gives an example of a smooth projective variety that is not dominated by a product of curves but whose Chow motive is of Abelian type. 
Humberto Diaz
math.AG