The French round of the 2010 FIM Motocross World Championship was the 100th Motocross Grand Prix organized by Youthstream, which started running the FIM series in 2004 - beginning with the Grand Prix of Flanders in Zolder, Belgium, on the March 21 weekend.
The company founded and headed by Giuseppe Luongo has taken the FIM Motocross World Championship to its actual state through seven years of hard work, bringing more media coverage and benefits for the partners involved and establishing a new long term plan to globalize the series.
The plan will see the FIM Motocross World Championship start after the FIM Supercross series ends, as this would give the top riders of these series the possibility of racing both the FIM Motocross and Supercross World Championships. More overseas rounds in North and South America, Asia and Oceania will enrich the calendar of the FIM Motocross World Championship whose partners will enjoy a more and more worldwide platform to gain further exposure.
In this period of 100 Grand Prix‰Ûªs several milestones in the history of Motocross were established: the 10 Titles and 101 GP wins of Stefan Everts, the arrival of the first ever 350cc machine and its first GP victory in the MX1 class, the organization of the first ever Turkish Grand Prix in 2009, German Ken Roczen winning his home GP in 2009 to become the youngest GP winner ever, the return of a Grand Prix event to USA and Brazil, Rui Gon̤alves becoming the first ever Portuguese to win a Grand Prix in 2009 and many more achievements making the history of the sport.
