Postcards From Jerez: Day One Of The Intercontinental Games
For eight American road racers, their team manager, and their small entourage of family and friends, their Thanksgiving Day was filled with track familiarization instead of turkey and stuffing as they participated in a track walk around the Circuito de Jerez-Ángel Nieto in Jerez, Spain, along with breaking in their new leathers, gloves, and boots, and working on their race tucks aboard their Yamaha YZF-R3 and YZF-R7 racebikes.
On Friday, Avery Dreher, Mikayla Moore, Max Toth, Matthew Chapin, Hayden Schultz, Mallory Dobbs, Blake Davis, and Andrew Lee will participate in the first practice sessions for this weekend’s 2024 City of Jerez FIM Intercontinental Games.
Enjoy these “postcards” courtesy of Hayden Schultz’s brother Collin Schultz, who is on the ground in Jerez and documenting the event on behalf of the FIM’s North America Continental Union:
The American contingent and their entourage gets familiar with the Circuito de Jerez-Ángel Nieto.Max Toth helps Supersport 300 team captain Avery Dreher get into a proper race tuck aboard his Yamaha YZF-R3.Mikayla Moore and Mallory Dobbs do a little pre-race bonding in the Jerez paddock.Supersport Team Captain Hayden Schultz checks out his FIM-supplied Airoh GP 800 helmet.Blake Davis (far right) breaks in his FIM-supplied SPIDI gloves and XPD boots while he walks the track with Matthew Chapin (second from right), Avery Dreher’s guardian John Ludwig (center), Avery Dreher (second from left), and Avery’s sister Ella Dreher (not racing, but there to support her brother and the other American riders).Andrew Lee was a last-minute addition to the team, and he’s a good one with lots of international racing experience under his belt.All of the North America Continental Union’s Yamaha racebikes sport a red-and-white livery.Ella Dreher (left), Max Toth (second from left), and Matthew Chapin (far right) flank Avery Dreher (second from right) as he sits in the saddle of his Yamaha YZF-R3 Supersport 300 racebike.
