This is Luongo doing what he has done for the last few decades.
He's been behind all of the various F*** ups in the GPs, whether it's been as an employee, or an owner of whichever 'organisation' that is 'promoting' the MX GPs.
It was purely a press meeting, to 'discuss' things with the MC Press - a few of which are his lap dogs.
I can only hope most of them aren't, and that they tear him a new arsehole for putting forward more BS, in their magazines and websites.
He's achieved his stated ambition of having only 20 /25 riders in the MX1 class, but now he's dealing with the reality of only having that number. MXGP, is Not Moto GP. Somehow, he thinks it can reach those levels of public interest. Not F***ing likely, and certainly Not by stuffing the sport up, even more than he has done so already, over so many years.
He's looking for the Golden Goose - for himself = being paid big dollars for the rights to a p**s poor , 1 hour live TV package.
Money, is all he cares about. Money for HIM.
I'd say the major companies have drilled into him that THEY want a viable MX2 class, with which to promote their main selling MXers (and, of course, ALL their other products - it's about the COMPANY NAME, not the type of bike. The Super Final format, would drive the 250 class, into irrelevancy. And the companies do not want that.
In June (I think it is) Luongo / Youthstream will be having further meetings with the manufacturers. He's tried the 350 idea before, with backing from KTM, but it was shot down by the Japanese companies. For them, now is not the time to make / develop 350 to 400s. They are happy to make, and sell, 450s. And, as a life long follower of MX, Now And Never, is the time for dumbing down the Premier Class of Motocross - it's been bastardised enough by the 250 2t / 450 4t rules.
The BS about 450s being too fast is just that - BS. The argument for going to 800s in Moto GP was along those very same lines - 'safety'. Well, they just went faster, and the bikes became even more high tech and expensive to run - far more so than the 990s - and the 500cc 2,3 and 4 cylinder 2ts, well, they were in the league of 'chump change' by any comparison.
450s, are not too fast - just as 500 MXers weren't. But, the 500s, held little interest for the manufacturers. Precisely the opposite is true with the 450s.
For once, I want the manufacturers to give Luongo and his pets in the FIM, a thorough Kicking. What is being regurgitated, in the form of 380s /400s as the 'premier class', is BS of the highest order. And we need the big manufacturers, including KTM (the biggest of the lot, in terms of participation in World MX GPs), to tell Luongo, and Wolfgang Srb, to go F*** themselves, in no uncertain manner.
I actually think, Luongo may be putting out the capacity reduction, plus the 2t capacity increase, to enable his other 'ideas' to be 'rubber stamped'. Throw those out there, to get the manufacturers attention, to then back down on, and have the other, equally ruinous 'rules' OK'd / put through.
Don't be bloody saps and think a potential 300cc 2t / 400cc 4t class is a good thing - just because we'd get an extra 50cc onto a 250cc 2t.
You'd just be showing your gullibility, and it would knock, completely on the head, the chance of ever having a 250cc equivalency class (and may lead to it disappearing where it has been allowed) at World and AMA Outdoors / SX level. And Any chance of equivalency in the Premier Class, be it 400 4t max, 450 max, or the best Real Class we could hope for, an up to 500 "Any Stroke Type" class .
