Spain doubles down with FIA, FIM Games

Worldwide motorsport will descend upon Spain twice this fall. Final weekend, the FIA Motorsport Video games arrived at Circuit Ricardo Tormo in Valencia, the place the host nation dominated the medal depend with six of every for a complete of eighteen. A month from now, Spain’s Circuito de Jerez will host the inaugural FIM Intercontinental Video games.

Spain was the one nation with double-digit medals in complete and over twice as many because the second most of seven by Germany and the UK. Their six golds have been additionally twice as a lot as Germany and Italy. The Spaniards additionally topped the whole medal desk on the 2022 Video games, however failed to attain a gold.

Juan Cota Alonso headlined the Formulation 4 race after main all the race and clearing Peru’s Andrés Cárdenas by two seconds. Hugo Fuertes added a gold in Cross Automotive on the close by Aspar Circuit, whereas 4 extra golds got here on the rally facet.

“Each lap was key to reaching victory, I stayed calm and centered,” mentioned Cota. “This medal is for my mother and father and my household for every part they’ve sacrificed for me. There may be nothing better than representing Spain right this moment with a gold.”

Eric Gené, the son of World Touring Automotive Championship veteran Jordi Gené and nephew of F1 alumnus Marc Gené, narrowly missed out on including a nineteenth medal for Spain. He was operating third in Touring Automotive earlier than falling to fourth as a consequence of a penalty and late contact.

Gené was not the one second-generation driver to participate. Kevin Magnussen’s youthful brother and Jan Magnussen’s son Luca Magnussen completed seventh in Karting Dash Senior. Oscar Wurz, son of Alexander Wurz, retired from the F4 race.

The UK loved two golds from James Owen and Jorge Edgar in GT Single Make and Karting Dash Junior, respectively.

With the four-wheeled Video games out of the best way, Spain now turns to Jerez to organize for the FIM Intercontinental Video games. Scheduled for 30 November/1 December, it should solely include the Supersport and Supersport 300 occasions for 2024 however plans are to increase to different disciplines like motocross and enduro sooner or later.

In contrast to the FIA Motorsport Video games, the ICG’s “groups” are continents, every represented by an FIM Continental Union (CONU): Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, North America, and Oceania. Every CONU can have eight riders complete with 4 per class, and not less than one girl should be in every class.

“In a single month this venture will lastly come to life,” mentioned FIM President Jorge Viegas. “The FIM Intercontinental Video games shall be distinctive in bringing collectively all six FIM Continental Unions. It’s a landmark competitors that I’ve been eager to see occur since I first proposed it a few years in the past and I’m delighted that we’ll lastly see the primary version play out on the fantastic Circuito de Jerez – Ángel Nieto very quickly.”

FIA Motorsports Video games winners

Medal depend