Mix of youth and experience for FIM North America’s FIM Intercontinental Games line-up

With the first-ever FIM Intercontinental Games (ICG) now less than a month away, FIM North America is putting the finishing touches to its preparations to take on the other five FIM Continental Unions (CONU) of Asia, Europe, Africa, Latin America and Oceania at the iconic Circuito de Jerez – Ángel Nieto in Spain on 30 November and 1 December.
 
Representing a major landmark in the FIM’s one-hundred-and-twentieth anniversary year, the inaugural ICG – the City of Jerez FIM Intercontinental Games – will feature Supersport and Supersport 300 classes with R7 and R3 machines provided by ICG Official Partner Yamaha Europe. More disciplines, including Motocross and Enduro, will be added as the biennial event becomes more established.
 
FIM North America’s challenge in the Supersport 300 category will be led by eighteen-year-old Team Captain Avery Dreher from Florida, the 2023 MotoAmerica Junior Cup Champion. He will be backed up by twenty-year-old Mikayla Moore from Maryland who is the American Motorcyclist Association’s Female Racer of the Year for 2024 and part of the Royal Enfield ‘Build, Train, Race’ programme that aims to highlight women in motorcycle culture in North America.
 
The team’s final two R3 riders are eighteen-year-old Californian Maxwell Toth who has been based in Barcelona in Spain this season while competing in the FIM JuniorGP Moto2™ European Championship and Matthew Chapin from Maryland who, at sixteen years old, is the youngest member of the team and already a multi-time national WERA Road Race champion and 2024 MotoAmerica Junior Cup Champion.
 
Team Captain in the Supersport category is twenty-six-year-old former Motocross racer Hayden Shultz from Arkansas whose ultimate ambition is to race the FIM MotoGP™ Grand Prix World Championship or the FIM World Superbike Championship. Shultz will be joined on an R7 by thirty-year-old Mallory Dobbs from the Pacific Northwest who is a top-ten contender in the FIM Women’s Circuit Racing World Championship and eighteen-year-old Blake Davis from Virginia, a former MotoAmerica Twins Cup champion.
 
FIM North America’s R7 rider line-up is completed by nineteen-year-old Rocco Landers from Oregon, the 2019 MotoAmerica Junior Cup Champion and a rider with valuable European experience having contested selected rounds of the 2020 Red Bull MotoGP™ Rookies Cup.
 
Rob Dingman, AMA President and CEO and FIM North America President, said: “The inaugural Intercontinental Games offers a chance for riders from across North America to compete against the other Continental Unions around the globe. We’ve pulled together a team of talented riders to compete on the world stage. Our skilled group of racers are ready for the challenge set before them and the chance to bring home the first ever Intercontinental Games win to the FIMNA.”
 
Organised with the support of la Junta de Andalucía, the City of Jerez FIM Intercontinental Games brings together forty-eight riders from nineteen countries and takes place on 30 November and 1 December 2024 at the Circuito de Jerez – Ángel Nieto in Southern Spain.
 
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