Will Prado’s SX adventure hurt his MXGP chances?

No 

He will be fine! Probably won't be as committed or focussed, but he will have a pre packaged excuse if it goes to pot. 

No. Racing is the best preparation and he has raced.

He can use the settings from last season and i doubt that he has forgotten how to ride MX after a couple of months in the US.

He will be better off because of it. 

The intensity he will bring may be off putting to his fellow racers. Won't hurt squat other than him getting a taste of his future, maybe be a slight attention diversion for a bit. 

Practicing supercross in the California mud is harder than doing laps on a random public or hillside track in Spain or Sardinia like the other guys in his class are doing today.

I think his supercross experience will make Jorge better for MXGP than he was last year.

If he can win the title again, he can come here full time in 2025.

His interview on Pulp he sure made it sound like he'd be here either way.  He did not beat around the bush that he's a full free agent after this year and an ride for any team he wants.

I think the opposite.
His biggest weakness is passing people when he's not up front. Basically if he's not first his pace drops sometimes by multiple seconds a lap because during his entire career he has been used to being in first.
He has probably passed as many riders in these 3 races as he did in half of the MXGP series. And on a tighter track with less passing opportunities.
He'll be fine

No substitute for gate drops, he's getting them and they ain't. I am guessing his intensity will be through the roof compared to theirs.

Only if he gets hurt

Just pumped he is here for another round. Hoping he just says screw it and signs here. We would love to have him race outdoors with our boys 

Roczen raced one Motocross race all year and then won the MxDN 450 class with a terrible start and stalling in the same Moto. If your good, your good. So no. 

The MXGP season is like 13 months long and a war of attrition. His supercross vacation is a good change of pace and will give him extra motivation to repeat before he leaves the series.

when somebody on a message board ends their post with "Discuss" I usually block and delete. 

Prados Supercross bootcamp will do nothing but increase his skillset on a motocross bike.

I guarantee Prado has not had a preseason that required so much concentration and forethought as this SX Bootcamp. his acuity, his reflexes, his reaction time and his balance will be better than ever.

I don't think so...  He's getting gate drops.  He will be better mentally than the others.  And he will ride an MX setting for long enough to be good.  I like the strategy.

I honestly cant see him be as focus as before on the MXGP title chase...

But I could be wrong. 😉

Prado won his MXGP title without competing against Herlings, Febvre Renaux and Gajser the full season. He has to beat them this full season to return to the AMA series as a MXGP World Champion, tough road ahead.

Crashes are part of racing and he played his cards better than them, so he won his title against all of them. The same argument of injuries can be used for 2022 title (Herlings and Fevbre injured) and 2021 and 2020 titles (Herlings injured, Prado with cronical covid issues). So his MXGP title is as valid as any other, he is World Champion.

I think the opposite.

Watching this guy over the last couple months have made me a fan... His style on the bike is so good, I hope he is all in for sx 2025

Who's to say he's not doing some moto practice on the side?

Prados in for a rude awakening them boys going to manage that championship just like he did. You have to be fast but smart.

Will come down to focus. He's had a big taste of the future for him. If he can get that back out of his mind so it won't be a distraction and zero in on the task at hand until the season is over, he's good.

How many of us 'regular lifers' have mailed it in during a week when they have a nice weekend coming up to think about? 

IMO he will be better at starts (scary thought) and the beginning of any race due to format of SX.

Won’t make a difference, he is coming to USA full time in 25.. stamp it… 

I watched every qualifying and race day moto for the entire 2023 season and I'm not sure how you can make this statement? Prado came out of the gate the very first qualifier and holeshot and was gone. Herlings was there trying to ride himself back into shape from injuries and kept crashing. Renaux had some good moto's but was way off the leaders pace and crashed and got hurt. Febvre won a bunch of moto's end of the year because Prado won moto 1 in 5/6 of the races and was content to come in 2nd place in moto 2. Managing a 100 point lead over the last 6 rounds. Tiga was way off the pace but I do think he was just putting in laps 

Prado totally dominated the 2023 MXGP series and Febvre was the only guy who raised his game to the same level (after it was too late). Febvre has very low character and is a bad sport. When Prado lost a moto he would always congratulate Romaine (or whoever won) and shake his hand, When Febvre lost he rode past Prado like a sore loser pretending he didn't see him after the finish line.

Amongst us old dudes, it’s a classic term of hilarity! 

It’s like throwing gas on fire, sometimes. 

I stated he didn’t compete against them the whole season, all of those riders were either injured or hampered during the season as you mentioned. It’s not going to be as easy this season with Geerts in the mix and Valanderan on a facory team and Fernadez, Seewer & Coldenhoff able to stand on the top step on any weekend. Going to be interesting 

He’ll be better due to how stoked he is after getting these 4 Supercrosses in. Plus, all the additional input he has from developing his own SX set-up, plenty of time riding/practicing over here and having an absolute blast doing it…etc. 

He’s gonna come back in 2025…and stay.