DAVID LUONGO EDITORIAL | MXGP MAG #138

Dear MXGP Fans,

The last month has been full of actions with three Grand Prix that took place in Switzerland, Portugal and Spain.

The MXGP of Switzerland marked the first turning point of the season with the unfortunate injury of the leader of the championship Tim Gajser. All our thoughts go to this fantastic rider, we wish him a fast recovery and we cannot wait to have him again racing MXGP.

But this Grand Prix was also the theatre of the first ever victory of the rookie of the category. Lucas Coenen scored a perfect 1-1 on Sunday and started to write the history of precocity as he is now the youngest rider to win in the MXGP category in his first season in the main class. Finally, the Swiss fans were delighted to cheer for their hero, Jeremy Seewer, who also entered the History of our sport obtaining the first ever podium for Ducati in the MXGP World Championship. In MX2, Simon Langenfelder proved again that he has the speed to be in front of the pack, especially on the hardpack conditions that the track was giving to the riders.

The weather didn’t make our life so easy in Portugal, Agueda, and I want again to congratulate our organizer together with Infront’s track crew and all the people involved in the organization for the tremendous work they did during this Grand Prix to be able to run the full program despite the tons of water that we got during the entire weekend. Agueda never disappoints and here again Lucas Coenen confirmed that we will have to count on him for the title battle. Romain Febvre scored a second position, like in Switzerland, and secured the red plate for the lead of the championship while Ruben Fernandez kept the red colour of Honda HRC on the third box of the podium! In MX2 again we witnessed a fantastic race with the victory of Andrea Adamo, in front of Kay De Wolf and Simon Langenfelder.

Finally, we head back to one of the most newly appreciated tracks of the season, Lugo, Spain. Here again we had to deal with complicate weather and track conditions that were very different from Saturday to Sunday, but the Spanish fans answered the call to push home rider Ruben Fernandez for his second podium in a row. Then Romain Febvre honoured brilliantly his Red Plate and extended his leadership on Lucas Coenen, who finished second. In MX2, we had again a third different winner in three Grand Prix with the incredible come back of Kay De Wolf during the second race, he gave everything to win the overall in front of Andrea Adamo and Sasha Coenen.

On the media side, we finalized an agreement with one of the most popular and iconic Television Network in the World and we were very proud to announce that Sky Sport Italia will broadcast the rest of the MXGP season LIVE on their channel, including the MotoGP Channel. It will bring a great exposure to MXGP in Italy and abroad.

Finally, we announced that the BLU CRU World SuperFinale will take place during the Monster Energy Motocross of Nations in Ironman. It is a great occasion to continue to highlight this fantastic project that was initiated in collaboration with Eric De Seynes and Infront Moto Racing almost a decade ago to help to young talented generation to join the European Championship. After several years of success, it will be the first time that we will bring this event overseas to continue the tradition started some years ago of organizing this final during the biggest Off-Road event on the planet.

But for now, we are heading to the MXGP of France, on probably one of the most iconic tracks of the year, Ernée!

I wish you a great MXGP of France.

MXGP Rocks

David Luongo

CEO Infront Moto Racing