Europe beat Asia at first-ever Intercontinental Games

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A Europe team defeated their Asia counterparts in ♍the first-ever FIM Intercontinental Games.

Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, North America, and Oceania took part in the un༺ique motorcycle racing event over the weekend.

Riders from WorldSSP, WorldSSP300 and WorldWCR lar🔯gely made up the numbers.

Europe - riding a Yamaha R7 in the Supersport class and a Yamaha R3 in the Supe๊rsport 300 class - came out on top.

Pole positions set on Saturday

D🍒ino Iozzo claimed pole position, for the African team, in the Supers༒port class.

Humberto Maier was 0.369s behind Iozzo.

Gon🥂zalo Sanchez, for Europe, beat Oceania’s Archie McDonald to pole in the Supersport 300 claꦫss.

Red flag drama

Aldi Mah🤪endra, representing Asia, won the first Supersport 300 race after starting from sixth.

Pole-sitter Sanchez crashe꧃d out, opening the door for Mahend꧂ra.

The Supersport race was red-flagged when Africa’s✨ Clint Seller crash🍃ed.

That handed victory to Sou﷽th America’s Humberto Maier.

Final race decider

✅Asia’s Mahendra thouജght he’d won Race 2 in the Supersport 300 category by 0.001s.

B📖ut he was demoted to third by a penalty for irresponsible riding.

That hanꦛded a win to Latin America’s Nahuel Santamaria.

European Sanchez finished se♑cond, bouncing back from his costly crash in ♏Race 1.

A red flag due𒊎 to wet weather in the final race of the event added extra drama with the title at stake.

Asia’s Soichiro Minamimoto and Apiwath Wongthananon finished first and second in the tricky🐟 conౠditions.

But it wasn’t enough to deny Team Europe.

FIM Europe Supersport captain Elia Bartolini, Enzo De La Vega and Valentin Folger all 𒅌fini🌳shed in the top 10, giving their squad enough points to claim the unique title.

Individual prizes

Asia’s Mahendra wonꦅ the prize for highest-scoring male rider in the Supersport 300 class.

Josepꦓhine Bruno won the femal🍃e prize in the same category.

Bartolini and M💎allory Dobbs won the accolade in the Supersport class.

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