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No, he said setting the bike up and developing new parts for Febvre is easy because they know what he likes at this point. He said it takes more time to do that for new riders as they have to learn their likes/dislikes. They start with a neutral setup (not Febvre’s) and adjust from there.
Even after Taka's help he still shit the bed.
And we aren't asking him to crash his brains out. But don't pull over and let dudes by.
Everyone likes to talk about the Tomac/Kawi relationship but he was still winning races and championships.
I think the big mistake that Jorge made, is thinking that being one of the best in Europe, he has the capacities to be one of the best in Outdoor because the level is pretty similar. There is some smilarities between the 2 championships but there is a lot of differences as well.
We can imagine that MXGP and AMA Pro Motocross are two parallel ladders, a meter apart from each other, that goes to the same height. If you climb one ladder to the top step, it was hard and you want to challenge yourself (good for you) and try to climb the other ladder. Then what do you do ? Do you jump from the top of a ladder straight to the other one ? Nope, you can't do that, you've to go down and climb the second ladder from the bottom.
I think it is tough to admit, but it like starting from the very beginning again, and you also (very important in the process) have to prepare to put the ego aside, because you come from the very top with a lot of knowledge and confidence and then you have to consider being a beginner all over again...
That is all between the suspesion tech at Showa, the team, and the riders communication.
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It's a trip to come to work every morning, open up Vital and see this thread at the top still. I mean, five six days later, who gives a shit really.
$50k for presumably engineering work, custom tooling, weld fixtures, welders salary etc is really nothing at the end of the day.
Sorry, was wheeler who said it's built around Febvre.
That's not correct.
That should be correct.
Plus Taka probably was the dude who set up the stock suspension.
Stands to reason he would like it.
Produd show give his pay back!
This is the most damning stat. How many races if any did he have a positive number next to positions gained/loss
Well , it certainly seems like his confidence in his abilities haven’t eroded. It’s going to be interesting to see how it works out for him in the future. I personally think he’s delusional.
Jorge just posted a post on Instagram "clearing" things up!
Did you buy it?
I haven't seen it yet, just asking what you thought.
Damage control.
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Translation “I’m having trouble getting out of the personal deal I’ve done with Monster and I don’t think I can get away with leaving Kawi before SMX. This is a feeble attempt to try and smooth things over with the team so I can make it somewhat tenable for SMX all whilst taking no personal accountability”
Someone got a letter from the legal department lol
Disappointing he didn't give aees a shoutout
It’s almost cringy at this point how much aees is boot licking Prado.
What's cringy is how adults can be so offended and upset by riders giving their perspective. Typical jealousy shining through.
Starts to sound more and more like Jorge Martin with Aprilia in MotoGP.
"Never felt comfortable on the bike, not even a bit!"
How is the team taking this the wrong way? It seams pretty clear what you are saying in your original post.
Stolen from twitter
The word offended gets thrown around way too much these days it almost has no meaning. This is a moto forum. Jorge made a stupid post and posters are just cutting through the bullshit. He comes off as an arrogant and unwilling to admit his part in his lackluster season which isn’t something people are going to respond positively too.
Are you on drugs? Something is just not right if you think people are offended or jealous.
What I heard on the Swap podcast was Taka say was he was asked to help urgently. Race season is no time to develop, mfg, and test. Yes that takes time but Prado’s situation was break/fix urgency, not develop mfg test which is better but of course takes time. If you are mid-season desperate, you don’t start a development cycle, you call in anyone that can help. Like KYB inserts in Webbs KTM you do what you gotta do. Taka got the hardware to Prado before Taka even got to the US to help him with it. If you have other sources then OK.
You can't be serious... Honestly I have nothing else to say lol.
Prado hasn’t handled himself in the best way, and certainly hasn’t earned himself any new fans, but I actually don’t have an issue with the statement after Budds. The entire world can see he isn’t comfortable and is just cruising around, so why is it a massive deal to say so?
What I find extraordinary is that Prado took a big risk to go to America, arrived desperate to prove himself, with basically a 4 year multi-million dollar deal, and he was prepared to throw that all in the bin after less than 10 races, that to me says that situation within the team has to be pretty problematic, and this is not a team with a great recent track record. It would be different if his teammate was killing it, but he’s not turning up to race at all.
The fact that nobody in a leadership position at that team is fielding questions or saying anything when both their riders have essentially quit is absolutely insane to me
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