Europe beat Asia at first-ever Intercontinental Games
Unique format and competition explained here

A Europe team defeated their Asia counterparts in the first-ever FIM Intercontinentaওl Games.
Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, North Am꧋erica, and Oceania took part in the unique motorcycle racing event over the weekend.
Riders from World꧟SSP, WorldSSP300 an♉d WorldWCR largely made up the numbers.
Europe - riding a Yamaha R7 in the Supeꦰrsport class and a Yamaha R3 in the Supersport 300 class - came out on top.
Pole positions set on Saturday
🦩Dino Iozzo claimed pole position𒁏, for the African team, in the Supersport class.
Humberto Maier was 0.369s behind Iozzo.
Gonzalo Sanchez, for E🌜urope, beat Oceania’s Archie McDonald to pole in the Supersport 300 class.
Red flag drama
Aldi Mahendra, representing Asia, won the fi🐻rst Supersport 300 rꦿace after starting from sixth.
Pole-sitter Sanchez crashed out, ಞopenin𝓀g the door for Mahendra.
The Supersport race was red-flagged when Africa’s Cl✨int Seller crashed.
That handed victory to🃏 South ♚America’s Humberto Maier.
Final race decider
Asia’s Mahendra thought he’d won Race 2 in the Suওpersport 300 category by 0.0♈01s.
B💯ut he was demoted to t𝄹hird by a penalty for irresponsible riding.
That handed a win to ♔Latin America’s Nahuel Santamaria.
ꩵEuropean Sanchez finished second, bouncing b🌱ack from his costly crash in Race 1.
A red flag due to wet weather in the final race of the event add♋ed extra dr🧔ama with the title at stake.
Asia’s Sꦆoichiro Minamimoto and Apiwath Wongthananon finished first and second in the tricky conditions.
But it wasn’t enough to deny Team Europe.
FIM Europe Supersport captain Elia Bartolini, Enzo De La V🍰ega and Valenti♛n Folger all finished in the top 10, giving their squad enough points to claim the unique title.
Individual prizes
Asia’s Mahendra won the prize for highest-scoring male rider in the Superspor🐻t 300 class.
Josephine Bruno won the female prize in 🅺the same category.
Bartolini 🐓and Mallory Dobbs wo🐟n the accolade in the Supersport class.

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