The World Enduro Super Series roared back into life this weekend with Mario Roman coming out on top at the Toyota Porto Extreme XL Lagares on May 12 to stake an early claim for the title of Ultimate Enduro Champion 2019. The Spaniard beat the 300 competitors, including 50 pros, who entered Sunday's Hard Enduro feature race in the baking Portuguese heat. Here: Graham Jarvis and Billy Bolt race at Toyota Porto Extreme XL Lagares, Portugal on May 12, 2019. (Photo by Future7Media/Red Bull Content Pool via AP Images)

A Nepalese Hindu devotee dresses as a deity as he prepares to participate in festivities at the Shikali Temple during celebrations for the Shikali Jatra festival in the village of Khokana, on the outskirts of Kathmandu, on October 19, 2015. Local villagers, who normally do not celebrate the country's most famous festival of Dashain, celebrate the Shikali Jatra each year. (Photo by Prakash Mathema/AFP Photo)

Figurative lanterns for Lunar New Year hang over a road to mark the upcoming Year of the Ox in Singapore on January 19, 2021. (Photo by Roslan Rahman/AFP Photo)

Raining on their New Year's Eve parade. Revellers in Leeds, United Kingdom get ready ready for the new year on December 31, 2022. (Photo by Nb press ltd)

A child marches in the Lunar New Year Parade in the Chinatown neighborhood of Washington, DC, on January 22, 2023. 2023 is the year of the rabbit in the Chinese horoscope. (Photo by Stefani Reynolds/AFP Photo)

NASA space shuttle Atlantis in Earth orbit is seen during a Rendezvous Pitch Maneuver, or back flip to enable space station crew members to take high resolution digital pictures of the shuttle's heat shield before docking for the last time with the International Space Station July 10, 2011 in space. Atlantis has embarked on a 12-day mission to the International Space Station where it will deliver the Raffaello multi-purpose logistics module packed with supplies and spare parts. This will be the final launch of the space shuttle program, which began on April 12, 1981 with the launch of Colombia. (Photo by NASA via Getty Images)

Pregnant revelers dance during a street pre-carnival party by the “Cordao do Boitata” Block, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Sunday, February 12, 2023. Revelers are taking to the streets for the open-air block parties, leading up to Carnival's official Feb. 17th opening. (Photo by Bruna Prado/AP Photo)

Spain's rider Fermin Aldeguer, foreground, leads as Spains rider Manuel Gonzalez Simon falls during Moto2 class race of the MotoGP Malaysian Grand Prix at the Sepang International Circuit in Sepang, Malaysia Sunday, November 12, 2023. (Photo by Vincent Thian/AP Photo)