DAVID LUONGO EDITORIAL | MXGP MAG ISSUE #131

Dear MXGP Fans,

What a season!

With three Grand Prix to go, the game is still on for the MXGP Title contenders with three fantastic champions, Tim Gajser, Jorge Prado and Jeffrey Herlings, who have 14 World Titles between them.

The past month the FIM MXGP World Championship went back to Sweden and its historical track of Uddevalla. Isak Gifting was riding home, and put a show together starting from the sighting lap and then leading the pack in Race 1 for the biggest pride of its fans and his private team JK Racing Yamaha. Motocross is probably one of the most exciting motorsports in the world because the riders’ skills, technic and determination are still more important than the technology and the bike. It is not the first time that a rider coming from a private team has great results in MXGP and MX2. 

The fight for the title is on in the MXGP class and the last three podiums of Sweden, The Netherlands and Switzerland have been completed by the top 3 of the championship. Jorge Prado won in style in Sweden, then the MXGP of The Netherlands’s victory was for Jeffrey Herlings in front of the Dutch fans, and finally Tim Gajser did a perfect Sunday with 1-1 in Switzerland on a very technical track due to the challenging weather condition. This brings the top three in 42 points with 180 points still to be distributed!

In MX2, Kay de Wolf and Lucas Coenen continue giving a great show. Simon Laengenfelder, Liam Everts and Mikkel Haarup are completing the top 5, and with three Grand Prix to go, many surprises can still happen.

During the MXGP of The Netherlands we had the pleasure to host the first laps of the bright new Ducati Desmo 450cc and the participation of the MXGP legend Antonio Cairoli to the Grand Prix. We cannot wait to be in 2025 to welcome Ducati in the MXGP family as a new official Manufacturer, making the MXGP World Championship the motorsport World Championship with the biggest number of Official Manufacturers.

The next three Grand Prix will bring a lot of actions. Turkey is now a track well known by most of the riders, but then we will then fly to China for our comeback to Shanghai after the break imposed by the Covid pandemic, and the grand finale will be in Spain on the new track of Castilla la Mancha in Cózar.

After Cózar we won’t have time to breath as the Monster Energy Motocross of Nations will take place on one of the most beautiful tracks in the World, Matterley Basin – UK. Many Federations have already announced their selection, and it promises to be mega! This event is like no other in the World, everybody still has in their memory last year’s edition at Ernée, and I am sure the British motocross fans will bring a crazy atmosphere! All the best riders in the world will be present to represent their country during the amazing event that will start on Friday with the balloting and the team presentation and it will be full of action until Sunday evening. All the experience will also be available LIVE on www.MXGP-TV.com.

Finally on the media side we are very proud to have reached 400.000 subscribers on YouTube’s MXGP Official page.

I wish you a great end of the Championship!

See you in Turkey or follow us on www.MXGP-TV.com

David Luongo

CEO Infront Moto Racing