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Prado’s first season in the US in his words
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Lovely to see his attitude. He will turn it around
That turnaround will happen on saturday .....prado ......sand that has to be top 3
It still baffles me that he looked better on the bike during SX than what he does now.
It’s all very baffling, but he’ll get it all sorted and be in the mix eventually.
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He has to be right? We cant underestimate how much Southwick isnt Lommel though. But, I still think he should do well.
During the SX he looked like he tried. Now he looks like he has given up and just put in 70%.
I have seen factory riders on stock bikes look better than what Jorge displays right now.
If he doesn't top 3 at the wick 😖 I think the reality is he is not a contender in the US. Its not a good look for the kawasaki team and for prado himself.
Maybe Kawasaki made a mistake giving him a 3 year contract? Perhaps he is just not motivated to push right now.
Or MXGP.
Is it normal for pro SX rider's vision to go blurry in the whoops like he said at A1 etc. ?
Or is that a bike setup deal.
From all accounts Kawasaki has repeatedly said this is a learning year and they didn’t expect wins. Prado is the one who expected wins. I doubt anyone expected Prado to be this off, but I don’t think anyone at Kawasaki had super high expectations this year.
Compared to several other Dutch and Belgian riders, Prado is no sand specialist/speedster.
He doesn't need a podium at Southwick to salvage the season, and probably won't get one there, although it is certainly possible.
He will be fine and will sort things out eventually.
Jorge is about the world's tenth fastest MX'er. Five guys faster than him race in Europe, five in the US.
I’d love to see him running up front. With that said, every rider and non-TV commentator (TV guys seem to sell Southwick as a European track) say that the sand at Southwick is nothing like European sand. Southwick has a very hard slick base once the top layer of sand pushes around as the track develops.
I’ve never ridden in Europe or Southwick, just a super fan who spends my weekdays listening to moto stuff rather then the news 🤷♂️.
I wish him everything of the best. Seems like an asset to AMA racing
It's painfully clear that his crashes and injuries have just kept him off the bike too much.
Only 15 days of SX before A1. Only 5 days of MX before Pala.
This is why he has been struggling. Year one in the states will be a write off for him. Hopefully he can get all the way through Outdoors, SMX and a full Off season healthy. If so, we will see the usual racy Prado again next year.
Damn who are the 5 faster guys in Europe and why are they faster this year but not the last 2 years? 🤔
Outside of Herlings, who are these Belgian and Dutch guys that beat Prado in the sand?
In order of descending speed, they are The Bullet, TG 243, Maxime 959, and Febvre and they WERE faster the past two years, but were also injured.
No disputing Prado's championships, no disputing his starting skills, and no disputing his incredible speed, BUT, he ain't as fast as the other guys.
oops, Coenen is the fifth guy, but he did not compete directly with Prado.
Pit Row
lol
Sorry, but you're wrong.
Prado's current performance has little to do with MXGP. He wouldn't be competitive in MXGP in his current form either. It's no secret that he struggles when he's not comfortable; but when he is, he can beat anyone. At his best, he's probably the strongest contender in the world to challenge Jett for a championship over a full season.
Prado has been a better version of jcoop in MXGP. If he gets a start he'll likely podium. If he doesn't he struggles coming through the pack. Our mid field is way stronger then MXGP so it makes it even more difficult for him to come through the pack.
he'll get better for sure but he's not gonna set the world on fire.
You are right that he is not a rider that is known to come from behind, but he is known to defend his positions when he makes a good start.
I thought it was really telling in this video where he raced in SX, tried to defend his positions and even get them back, and now when he is on a motocross track where he should shine, he never puts up a fight.
Something is really off between his ears right now, because he is riding so slow so it’s hard to even see a fault in the bike at that pace.
My take. ML you are welcome to add your thoughts to this.
Prado is battling a few things. New bike, Injury, and navigating doing a SX season and transition to MX.
I don’t think people understand how hard it is to go from SX suspension to MX suspension. Some riders do it well like Roczen and JMB. But most struggle. The MXGP riders ride and refine the same suspension continuously until the manufacture makes a new bike. In the US SX is the main series and most of the testing goes toward winning that championship.
Very few, he became a great sand rider the last couple of years riding in Europe
LOL, ok.
i wonder if you ever been to lommel..... prado is certainly a sand specialis....I live in the netherlands so .... in the sand only herlings is faster and maybe lucas coenen.. and if he stays on his bike kay de wolf........and if you think that Maxime 959 is better than prado then you are really making a fool of yourself.............
I'm not sure if he can get to top 3 this weekend, but I think 4-5 is doable and maybe even likely if he's not battling demons from the last 2 races.
A decent start and a track surface he should be more comfortable with, this should be a more competitive JP.
He rode two or three SX races (with 14 days of SX before that) and then got injured.
It’s not like he rode months and months with a SX suspension and then had to switch to MX on a two weeks period before outdoors.
And now he has done more MX time than SX on that bike (both training, testing and racing). And looks worse than ever. So with that in mind, I don’t buy in to the SX suspension theory.
Rumor from JT on a podcast is Prado is no longer with his longtime girlfriend.
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