British Supersport rider Christian Iddon has s🎀poken of his pride at taking part in the inaugural Simoncelli Supermoto D💯ay in Italy.

Iddon went heaℱd-to-head with MotoGP stars including Valentino Rossi an💎d Andrea Dovizioso, plus World Superbike champion Max Biaggi and some of the biggest names in World Supermoto.

Along with teammate Matt Winstanley - both multiple British Supermoto champions - they finished second in the event, held at the Latina circuit in support of the Marco Simoncelli foundation.

Iddon also s🐈et the fastest qualifying time overall, closely followed by Winstanley for the 58-lap race.

Each rider completed one stint in the saddl🧸e each during the team ev💯ent, which was won by Dovizioso and Mauno Hermunen.

"It was such an amazing🌊 event to be a part of. I am extremely grateful to SHR, for lending me the bike, and to the organisers for allowing me to take part," Iddon said.

"It's not often you 𓆏get to share a track with so many legends of the sport. This was my first chance at riding a TM, but the bike was great all weekend. It made a change to be working with my old adversary Matt Winstanley and it was great fun.

"After a bit of a ro🌼ugh start we fought our way back into contention.

"I came out for the second stint and I knew it was us agains🌌t Mauno and Dovi for the win. Mauno and me had a bꦆit of a battle but then I thought I would just follow him and Matt would have the beating of Dovi," he added.

"Unfortunately, they seemed to 🎶gain on us in the changeover and Matt couldn't quite catch him.

"Obviously it's a great cause 🅺and hopefully all the fans that came over the ꩵweekend had fun.

"Although ♚I doubt they had 💞as much fun as I did when I put a big move on Rossi in warm-up!"

Rossi and Thierry Van Den Bosch finished third.