MXGP Mag #103 David Luongo – Editorial

Dear MXGP Friends,

I would like to start my editorial by sending my big thoughts to all the people who are touched directly by the current situation in the eastern part of Europe. At our very humble level, I would like to spread the message that sport should always be used for uniting people and not dividing cultures. Sport has always been a symbol of peace and sharing of good philosophy. 

The season started in Great Britain at the beautiful track of Matterley Basin. When we had to publish the final calendar in December 2021, it is important to remind that UK was the only country in Europe that was giving us the guarantee to host public without limitation, as many other countries were still under restrictions. Despite the difficulties that obliged us to postpone the GP to the following week due to storm Eunice, the British Grand Prix was a great success as we had a great crowd, good weather and great races! Mantova came a week after and confirmed that the season will be very disputed and very open in MXGP. Tim Gajser and Jorge Prado have the speed of winning races, but Maxime Renaux started his MXGP career with class, already competing for the win, too! The comeback of Jeffrey Herlings and Romain Febvre in the upcoming weeks will add even more competition between all those champions. In MX2, a great surprise is coming from Germany, with the discovery of the talented Simon Längenfelder who won his first Grand Prix in Great Britain. Here again the title will be very disputed among many talented riders like Jago Geerts, Kay De Wolf, Tom Vialle, Andrea Adamo and Simon Längenfelder. 

As I am writing those lines, we are packing the last flight cases for Argentina. We will go back to this beautiful destination of Villa La Angostura for the third GP of the season. We were missing the overseas Grand Prix that give the real flavours of the MXGP World Championship. For sure, it is challenging to travel abroad with the impact of Covid-19, but it is very important for the fans of South America, Asia and Middle East to take the MXGP to their countries. We suffered a lot the miss of those GP’s during the last 2 years, and we are very happy to be back. The last GP of the season will bring us to Oman for the first time before flying to RedBud for the Monster Energy FIM Motocross of Nations that promises to be epic!

The beginning of the season brought some good news on the TV coverage of the MXGP as well. We were very happy to announce during the GP of Lombardia our new agreement with Stan Sport TV which gives the possibility for the Australian fans to follow to whole championship live. It is a new step on the path of the comeback of the GP in this amazing country of motocross enthusiasts. Then we also announced the signing of a two-year agreement with Teledeporte in Spain, one of the most followed free-to-air television channels in the country. It will give a fantastic visibility to our sport in Spain. And for those who prefer to follow the action whenever they want, we continue to improve and develop our OTT platform www.MXGP-TV.com where you can watch more that 7 hours of live at every GP.  

Finally, I would like to thank FIM, FIM Europe, all our organizers, the MXGP partners, the teams and the riders for their collaboration.

See you in Argentina! 

David Luongo, CEO of Infront Moto Racing