MXGP MAG #102 - David Luongo Editorial

Dear MXGP Friends,

Here we are, in a few days, the gates will drop for the opening Grand Prix of the 2022 MXGP season at the beautiful track of Matterley Basin in Great Britain.

The winter break has flown by very fast this year as we were finally catching up the classic time frame of the calendar and the format of the Grand Prix that we were missing for two years. This season will see the comeback of the two day format that made the essence of the MXGP for the last decades. The fans will have the pleasure to have the return of the Saturday qualification race and the European classes will race their second heat also on Sunday.

The last months gave to all of us a much better situation in regard to the covid-19 restrictions and the Grand Prix of Great Britain will allow the maximum public attendance to the race. The festivities will start on Friday with the usual Opening Press Conference to present the novelties of the championship and the top riders and their teams. 

This season promises to be more open than ever. The defending champion, Jeffrey Herlings will probably miss some Grand Prix before he will be fully recovered from his injury. The motivation of the other favourites and top guns of the MXGP class will be at the highest! Tim Gajser, Jorge Prado, Romain Febvre, and the MX2 World Champion, Maxime Renaux, for his rookie season in MXGP will be full gas to gain the maximum points! In MX2, Tom Vialle, Jago Geerts, Mattia Guadagnini, De Wolf will probably be in position to lead but here again, every year bring new talents and it will be very  interesting to see Liam Everts on his rookie year. Kawasaki will start a new journey with Ice One as Husqvarna with Standing Construct, both are very professional structures.  

With 20 Grand Prix taking place in 15 different countries, the season will be long and full of surprises as every year. We will welcome back countries that were missing the MXGP for two years as Argentina, Portugal, Indonesia, Sweden, Finland. They will bring back a lot of different kind of tracks, that the riders will have to master to be crowned World Champion.

The last two years we were missing the public for many events, but we put all our efforts to keep the fans close to the actions with our TV coverage and our different social networks. We continued to grow. In 2022, we will continue our investments to promote MXGP and to increase its popularity worldwide with the same energy. You will be able to follow all the actions on our OTT platform, MXGP-TV.com and our TV broadcasters grid will be unveil very soon.

Most of the ticketing pre-sales are open for the upcoming Grand Prix, as for the Monster Energy Motocross of Nations. I can tell you that the demand is huge for normal and VIP Package tickets especially for our come back to USA!

We cannot wait to finally celebrate this season that could mark the beginning of our new normality!

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 Matterley!

David Luongo, CEO of Infront Moto Racing