Completing the line-up of all six FIM Continental Unions (CONU) that are contesting the historic first edition of the biennial FIM Intercontinental Games (ICG), FIM Latin America is fielding a strong eight-rider team drawn from five South and Central American countries.
The City of Jerez FIM Intercontinental Games takes place on 30 November and 1 December 2024 at the Circuito de Jerez – Ángel Nieto in Southern Spain and forms a major part of celebrations to mark the FIM’s one-hundred-and-twentieth anniversary year. Limited to Supersport and Supersport 300 classes for its inaugural edition with Yamaha Europe, as Official Partner, providing R7 and R3 machines, more disciplines – including Motocross and Enduro – will be added as the event becomes established.
In keeping with the spirit of the ICG to provide a gender-neutral platform for riders to showcase their talents on an international stage, FIM Latin America is managed by Alan Douglas Dos Santos who will steer his team as it takes on the other CONUs of Asia, North America, Europe, Africa and Oceania.
Captaining the team’s effort in the Supersport 300 class, eighteen-year-old Kevin Santos Fontainha from Brazil has experience of the famous Jerez circuit having competed there this year in the FIM Supersport 300 World Championship, as has twenty-four-year-old Chilean racer Isis Carreño who finished twelfth in the 2024 FIM Women’s Circuit Racing World Championship.
The pair will be joined on R3 machinery by twenty-year-old Jerónimo González from Columbia and twenty-three-year-old Argentinian Nahuel Santamaria who have both contested the 2024 Yamalube R3 bLU cRU Latinoamérica series.
The most experienced member of the team, forty-two-year-old Brazilian Fabricio Zamperetti is Captain of FIM Latin America’s Supersport riders and he will compete alongside twenty-four-year-old Mexican Astrid Madrigal who has also raced at Jerez this year on her way to eighth in the FIM Women’s Circuit Racing World Championship.
The team is completed by nineteen-year-old Humberto Cezar Maier Neto from Brazil – a wild card rider in the 2024 FIM Supersport 300 World Championship – and twenty-seven-year-old Lucas Adrian Gutierrez from Brazil.
Pedro Venturo Jr, FIM Latin America President, said: “The FIM Intercontinental Games are a great opportunity to show the progress and quality of the FIM Latin America team riders who I am sure will offer very close and exciting races at the Jerez circuit. We have the best young talents in the region and we know that with teamwork we will win. It will be an exciting event.”
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.