The biennial FIM Intercontinental Games (ICG) returns this season for its second edition, with the 2026 Goiás FIM Intercontinental Games scheduled for 11–13 December at the Autódromo Internacional Ayrton Senna in Goiânia, Brazil.
The prestigious event will bring together teams from the six FIM Continental Unions (CONUs) – Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, North America and Oceania – to compete across circuit racing and motocross. Each CONU will field twelve riders, split evenly between Supersport (SSP), Supersport 300 (SSP300) and MX2. The two circuit racing classes featured at the inaugural ICG at Jerez, Spain, in 2024, while MX2 joins the programme for 2026, extending the competition to off-road racing.
Each CONU may select one ‘specialist’ rider with a permanent place in an FIM World Championship in 2026. Teams must also include at least one female rider per category, who may likewise be a permanent FIM World Championship rider this season. All other selected riders must be considered ‘rising talents’ and must not have competed in an FIM World Championship as permanent riders during 2026.
Yamaha will provide machinery for both circuit racing classes, with a fleet of YZF-R7 and YZF-R3 models available. Motocross competitors will race on locally supplied motorcycles, according to each rider’s requested brand and model and in compliance with FIM regulations.
In the run-up to the event, we will take a closer look at each CONU’s selection. This week, FIM North America takes the spotlight.
FIM North America’s efforts in Brazil will be overseen by Circuit Racing Team Manager Michael Martin who returns to his 2024 role alongside Steve Westfall who is the Motocross Team Manager.
Captaining the team’s SSP300 riders, Kensei Matsudaira only turned sixteen in October, but the Californian already has a wealth of experience across a variety of disciplines including Flat Track, SuperMoto and Speedway. A multi-time champion in the MotoAmerica Mini Cup, he finished a close second in both the MotoAmerica Talent Cup and the FIM Moto4 Latin Cup this season.
He is joined by Ella Dreher in an SSP300 squad that is filled with young, talented riders. A fighting fifth in the 2025 MotoAmerica Talent Cup, the sixteen-year-old Floridian represented Melissa Paris’ team in the first three rounds of the 2026 MotoAmerica Supersport championship before a crash in May sidelined her, although she returned for the final two rounds and will be fighting fit for the ICG.
The team’s third SSP300 rider is sixteen-year-old Hank Vossberg who has dominated the 2026 MotoAmerica Twins Cup, claiming eight race wins on his way to the national title. Last season the rider from Minnesota placed third overall – with three race wins – in the 2025 MotoAmerica Talent Cup series and also made appearances in the Twins Cup on his way to fourth overall.
Completing FIM North America’s all-teenaged line-up in the SSP300 category, sixteen-year-old Texan Michael ‘Mikey Lou’ Sanchez was eighteenth in this year’s FIM Moto4 European Cup. A former champion in the 110cc and 160cc classes of the MotoAmerica Mini Cup, he has had a base in Europe in recent seasons.
FIM North America’s effort in the SSP category is Captained by twenty-year-old Californian Max Toth. Another rider who competed in Jerez in 2024, Toth was fourth in the opening SSP300 race two years ago before his early exit from race two. A MotoAmerica Junior Cup race winner and Twins Cup podium finisher, Toth competed in the 2024 FIM Europe Moto2 European Championship and after injury marred his 2025 season he bounced back this year, racing in selected rounds of the FIM Harley-Davidson Bagger World Cup and the MotoAmerica King of the Baggers series and finished twenty-second in the FIM JuniorGP Moto2 World Championship.
Toth is joined on the SSP team by eighteen-year-old Maryland racer Matthew Chapin who achieved SSP300 finishes of seventh and twelfth at Jerez in 2024. This season he has continued to show his huge promise and was just two points away from an overall podium finish in the seven-round MotoAmerica Twins Cup after finishing second on his series debut in 2025.
A veteran of the 2024 ICG when she recorded a pair of thirteenth-placed finishes in the SSP class, thirty-two-year-old Mallory Dobbs from Washington State works as a civil engineer when she is not racing. A late convert to motorcycling having only learned to ride at the age of twenty-two, Dobbs raced at amateur level until making her MotoAmerica debut in 2022 and has competed in all three editions of the FIM WorldWCR series with end-of-season rankings of eleventh in 2024, fourteenth in 2025 and twenty-third this year.
Completing the FIM North America SSP line-up, twenty-year-old Blake Davis was fifth in this season’s MotoAmerica Supersport championship after finishing third in 2024 and 2025. A two-time MotoAmerica Twins Cup champion, the Virginian – winner of the AMA Youth Road Racer of the Year award in 2018 and AMA Nicky Hayden Road Racing Horizon Award in 2019 – competed in the inaugural ICG when he recorded an eleventh in the second SSP race after retiring on the opening lap of race one.
Canadian Dylan Rempel is Captain of the MX2 squad and the nineteen-year-old from Ontario will be aiming to lead by example having already forged a hard-earned reputation for his determination and commitment. With experience of running near the front in both the AMA Pro Motocross Championship SMX Next and Monster Energy AMA Supercross Championship 250SX Futures classes, this season Rempel was crowned 250cc Pro Class champion in the national Canadian Triple Crown series.
Aged just seventeen and hailing from Colorado, Mayla Herrick had to wait until round three of the 2026 AMA Women’s Motocross Championship until she was old enough to compete and she immediately claimed a moto win before crashing out of the second race. Despite this she still finished the season ranked eighth with overall podiums at Unadilla and Ironman Raceway and she was the youngest member of the Team USA squad that won the FIM Oceania Women’s Motocross Cup in early 2026.
The third member of the MX2 team, twenty-four-year-old Preston Kilroy won the 250 Pro class of the national 2025 Triple Crown Series before graduating to the 450 Pro division this season where he finished fourth and claimed the overall win at the final round. The rider from Wyoming made his professional Motocross debut in 2020 and his professional Supercross debut two years later and has competed in both the 250 and 450 classes of the AMA Pro Motocross Nationals as well as the 2023 SuperMotocross World Championship.
Hailing from Manitoba in Canada, twenty-one-year-old Ryder McNabb is a two-time 250 Pro Canadian Motocross Champion who was tenth in this season’s 450 Pro class in the Triple Crown Series after finishing seventh in the 250 Pro class in 2025. Making his professional debut in the 250cc class in 2024, he has achieved three top-twenty finishes in the 250cc class of the AMA Pro Motocross Nationals and also has a top-twenty finish in the Monster Energy AMA Supercross Championship 250SX Futures class on his racing résumé.
Rob Dingman, President of FIM North America, said: “The FIM Intercontinental Games brings the spirit of competition on two wheels under the international spotlight, and we are eager to showcase the collective talent of the riders from our continent. As we celebrate the second running of this event later this year, we anticipate a strong showing from our twelve riders in Brazil.”
Mike Pelletier, FIM North America Delegate, stated: “We have built a competitive team with a collection of skilled Circuit and Motocross riders that we feel very confident in for this year’s FIM Intercontinental Games. Team managers Michael Martin and Steve Westfall bring plenty of experience to their respective roles. I look forward to watching our team compete at this prestigious event, with a chance to bring international glory to North America.”
Michael Martin, FIM North America’s Circuit Racing Manager, commented: “I’m very honoured [to be Manager]. It’s a pleasure for me to do it and I certainly enjoy it. It’s been very rewarding so far and, hopefully, we’re going to go down there now that we have our feet underneath us and get a good result.”
Steve Westfall, FIM North America’s Motocross Manager, added: “To be asked to be a Team Manager for such a cool event is an honour. The fact that they considered me means a lot! The team is going to be great. Mike [Pelletier] and I went with what we thought would be the best team to win the FIM Intercontinental Games. Good luck to all the other CONUs competing in this event.”
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