Prado panic button?

Is Prado healthy? Left moto 2 for some reason. 

I think once he clicks, look out. 

RV, Weimer, and Ando have all said similar things. Yet Kawi says, no we'll do whatever it takes to get the bike where the riders want it. Prado getting hurt on sx is a bigger setback than anything. This year should have been learning the ropes of sx, slow and steady. '26 would have been building on that and starting to get respectable results hopefully. Now '26 will be a total learning year, AGAIN. Just an all around disaster of a start to his AMA career 

Prado's muscle memory is pretty ingrained with some many years on a steel framed bike. 

I love how some people think that a multi-time world champion coming to the US and struggling a bit somehow proves that the GPs are secretly slower than the US nationals and we’ve all just been fooled — and now Prado is “exposing” it.

Come on. Anyone who’s actually watched him ride knows this isn’t the Prado we normally see. Something’s clearly off. If and when he gets it sorted, he’s seriously fast.

This is not some grand indicator of GP vs US pace. If it were, the Nations results would look very different — and Herlings wouldn’t have turned up and handed everyone their lunch at Ironman.

Was the Red Cross flag in moto two for Prado, Anderson or Noren? 
Only saw that it was a green bike and all three finished out the back door.

We will find out next year, but I kind of feel like it should be Chase hitting the panic button. AP’s bike looked amazing, and I feel like that Kawi is 4th best out of 5.

Might need to go back to the Gp’s for a few rounds too get his confidence back 

What's Tick Brockle up to these days? What about hot sauce?

Who you counting as 5th? Beta or Suzuki?

Finishing over a minute behind the leaders is rough. 

So what happened to him moto 2? He crash, bike break? New engine setting go boom? Anderson say f this altitude ?

He's a non factor

Panic button is out of the drawer, but this is supposed to be a learning season for him, yeah he shouldn’t be that far behind and DNFing, but he’s still healthy so far.

This guys is a two time mxgp champ? The last two years right, beat JH and all......  I would have thought we would have seen some kind of spark by this point. Something to show he has the pace of the top guys but no...... 

Well we have several more races, we will see....

I think everyone has to chill out a bit. He will adapt to the upcoming tracks much easier I think. If we are sitting here in the same spot by end of the season the for sure, but if he's on the podium and sometimes in the battle by Redbud, that's still okay for year 1. 

The first three rounds are some of the trickiest tracks to succeed on and all the guys he's racing have been racing those tracks for 5-10 years and he's getting 20 minutes of practice or so. 

Kawi used to be the elite team. Now it’s where results go to die. 

You sure about this Chase?

Its ridiculous. Most of the GP vs Nationals discussions in the recent years have been about why the Euro's are so much better than us at mx. Sx being the more important series over here, too much track prep in the states, whatever. Now the GP's guys are inferior all the sudden? Stop it. 

In all fairness, there is a set of brothers racing here from across the pond who will be fast someday once they get their Hondas dialed in. 

Prado needs to turn things around. "You are as good as your last race". Not knocking on him, but you have to wonder if he is having second thoughts on if that was the right decision: he is supposed to be Kawasaki leading Rider and the allegedly signing of Chase puts him in the passenger seat, this results won't help him secure a top factory ride in the AMA circuit. #FuerzaJorge

Tru tru. 

One thing being 4 seconds a lap slower but 8-12?

I just watched the women's  race.  Id like to see some segment times for comparison.  

 

The panic button was out even before he tucked the front to save face in moto 2 today. He’s closer to losing a factory ride than getting a top 5. 

If he turns into what he has been in mxgp. This post won’t age well 

As someone who moved my life from Europe to the US, I can say — it is a huge adjustment. And that’s without being a professional athlete trying to stick to a strict training plan and routine.

That said, I do sometimes question whether the whole “he moved across the world” line fully explains a big drop in form. Does it really take that much time to adapt?

Then I think back to that old video (2019, I believe?) of Jason Anderson driving some insane distance across Europe just to find a Chipotle — because it was the only place he could get food that fit his diet. And it reminds me: everyone handles change differently

He can turn into what he’s been in mxgp, he’s still not beating Tomac and Lawrence

He'll be fine... better to work into it and be slow about it.. then just grab a hand full of throttle. Kawasaki also has Bob W's phone number. He's done work for them in the past (as well as Yamaha). He can find them as much HP as Prodo can handle. And he can recommend the specific race fuel to run. 

He rips in the sand, so if he struggles at *Southwick, I might start thinking about hitting the panic button.

*That's assuming the red cross flags weren't for him, and he's not hurt.