Last week we ran an interview with MXGP promoter, Giuseppe Luongo. Since starting his promotional career all the way back in the 1980’s, Luongo has been the leader in motocross promotion, not only as a man who has run major international events like the Masters of Motocross in the 1980s, where he would pit the best AMA riders against the best GP riders.

Of course, in the 1990s, Luongo led Action Group was the promotional team that run the World 250 Motocross Championships, and the 250 series was miles ahead of the 125cc and 500cc GPs, which were usually run by a selection of clubs or promoters.

Mr Luongo, has also promoted the Monster Energy Motocross of Nations for decades and of course, his MXdN promotional career started back in 1986 at the legendary Maggiora event.

In 2004, Giuseppe Luongo again returned to run the MXGP championship, having sold the series to Dorna, and then bought it back under the Youthstream promotional team.

Now, in 2025, Mr Luongo continues to lead Infront into the future and continues to bring us the highest quality of events, both in promotion and in organization. No series in the World is bigger than the MXGP championship when it comes to organization, Worldwide coverage and just how professionally it is run.

We asked Giuseppe about his thoughts on the FIM run World Supercross championship, which has been building momentum and showing great signs to become a major player in the sport. WSX Senior Consultant of Racing Development, Kurt Nicoll mentioned to mxlarge a little while ago how he was keen to see more high level riders involved in the World supercross in the near future and also flew to Portugal, for the MXGP round to talk with teams and riders about being involved.

I think for many fans, the idea of seeing riders like Sasha and Lucas Coenen, Kay De Wolf, or some of the younger riders, who might be able to compete indoors, is an exciting idea, although it is also a danger of riders burning out, if they take on more than what is considered smart.

So, when we asked Giuseppe Luongo about his thoughts on the World Supercross Championship, he was forefront in mentioning the dangers of racing more than one discipline. Below is his answer to that question last week.

Giuseppe Luongo: I believe in the free competition, and when somebody offers a better series than another it will be for sure more successful, I have done this with Masters of Motocross at the end of the 80’s and we have done this with MXGP since more than 25 years

In America with their AMA Supercross and AMA Nationals it works very well.The manufacturers demonstrate that they believe (and it’s also my belief) that the best Supercross in the world is in America and the best Motocross in the world is MXGP, and the contracts of the manufacturers with the riders are very clear that they pay their American riders to make the AMA Supercross and the AMA Nationals and they pay the riders from the rest of the world to make MXGP.

Motocross and Supercross are two entirely different sports; MXGP riders are specialised in Motocross, and SX riders are specialised in Supercross.I believe having MXGP riders participating in a Supercross series in their off-season would be detrimental to MXGP riders.

Already today there are many complaints of not having enough recovery time.Professional riders at this kind of level need to have the time out during the off-season to physically recover and prepare themselves for the next season.

If they were to race 12 months a year there would be a high risk of injuries not recovering completely, a high risk of burning the riders out causing an intense and shorter career for the riders and a lower performance of the riders as a whole. I believe riders need to prioritise one sport or the other (Motocross or Supercross) in order to be at the highest level of competition needed for world class sports.