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Some cool things in the works there, a few weeks too early to say though.
I was thinking he must’ve slept with Genovas ol lady or something to finally be leaving MCR 🤣🤣🤣🤣 that or the evil looking CEO of Stark is paying Vince a boatload of money to win them a world supercross championship on an electric missile 😂😂😂
Matthes stated that Mosiman has re-signed with Star on his racerx observations column.
Any news on Freddie Noren
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Do we know where that lands Romano?
Is there a silly season feature or chart somewhere that gets updated so we don't have to scroll through all these pages
I was watching the latest Daniel Blair show on YouTube last night, and maybe I'm late to the party...but he said there is a real possibility that Prado will indeed jump to KTM for 2026. And, he also said he'd heard that although HRC Honda had made him an offer to ride the 250 for 2026, Jo has not signed anything yet...and there is a chance he might jump into the #2 450 rider position on Kawasaki. It appears that Honda didn't give him a path for a 450 ride, since the Lawrence brothers are taking those spots...so if JS30 was looking to get his opportunity in the 450's, this might be his chance.
Very interesting.
That's genius...
On Matthes RacerX Observations he says that’s Lars had stated Honda would run a 3rd 450 for Jo in the future.
My understanding has always been that if he performs on a 250 (titles), a 450 door would open. I think they would run a third 450 if needed in this situation.
I could look back, but did Tomac nail down a deal yet?
I really feel like Jo has tried hard, floundered around a little but really found his groove this year indoor and out, if not for the finger dealio, who knows? It's obviously not about money, he could potentially really bank in the 250's next year!
I hope Shimoda stays with Honda. He looks damn good on that bike right now. If the rumors are true that his 450 spot is dependent on his 250 titles, then I feel like he would have less pressure to run up front since Honda will already have arguably the best 1-2 punch in the 450. If he goes the Kawasaki route, I feel like Kawi would want results immediately since they have not had a legit 450 contender since Tomac.
Anderson was a legit title contender in 2022 when he won more SX races than anybody and finished second in the championship.
I mean, I guess. Tomac got hurt at round 14 with a 54 point lead, and still was able to lock up the championship 1 race early.
Up until crazy round 10 at Detroit, where absolute chaos happened, Anderson was looking very competitive. Yes, he got himself into trouble riding aggressively making enemies as well, but he was very fast in 2022. It was the best I'd ever seen Jason ride. He made me nervous as an ET3 fan that year.
He has won an outdoors since then and been on the podium multiple times every year since then on the Kawi. Even this year he put it on the box and almost won a race at A2. That is still such legit speed.
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Michael,
Tomac to KTM, Chase to Kawi, and Prado to KTM: are these “heavy rumors” or unofficial facts at this point? Thanks!
Tomac and Chase is happening. Prado just a rumor
At this point, Prado is 100% out at Kawasaki and it’s just a matter of whether it’s after SMX or not.
Please don’t flame me for this but is there actually like some sourcing for this besides people on vital reaching consensus? I’m not an industry guy so I’m just wondering. Thank you!
Is this confirmed?
There won’t be proper sourcing until after Des Nations, but Eli and Chase’s deals with KTM and Kawi are 100% happening. Prado I think is up in the air and is just speculation thus far.
There is NO WAY IN HELL if I was KTM USA...not Europe...but USA , that i would want Prado. KTM Europe...sure.
The guy can't adapt to the tracks we ride here in the United States or the short program.
It would be colossally stupid of Ian Harrison to sign Prado.
That annnnddddd he still has to race 450 SX, unless he really thinks it’s the bike and thinks he will hang with Jett outdoors on the KTM and wants to prove it to everybody. Ship his championship GASGAS over here and I don’t think he hangs with Jett, Hunter, Eli, or Chase in our series.
KTM America, right in front of there face is seeing a Jorge Prado who cannot adapt to American style mx and worse...,gives up.
Are they so arrogant to think that a KTM can transform Prado into a competitive American style racer?
If KTM thinks they are getting a clear ri$k to reward by paying Jeorge only bonus money for 26' I disagree.
I think it's a great move for KTM. They only pay if he does well. He only gets paid if he does well. Regardless of what the actual issues are right now he believes it's the bike and is totally unwilling to push through it, but that's easier to do when you're getting paid either way. If he wants to get paid he's going to have to push through it and in the process of doing so might solve some of the issues he doesn't even admit exist right now.
I'm not saying I think the chances of it going well are high, but with no salary, if it looks anything like this year you just terminate the deal and walk away. Lot of potential upside with not much risk for KTM.
2026 must be Jo's year unless Kitchen or someone steps it up.
There’s not a PR yet but from the sounds of it, yes.
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