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"At no point do I mention the team or bike itself". Didn't he also say: "I never felt comfortable on the bike that's why I had to cruise around to my own safety"? 🤣
Yeah maybe he got a Cease and Desist from Kawi
Care to give any reasoning as to why it’s a bad comparison? I agree it’s not perfect but if there’s any comparison, although this is a very unique situation, it’s Reed
What Prado seams not to understand is that his post season statement isn’t being judged on its own. It’s being judged in addition to his other statements and actions during the season. Not good.
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This is truth. The fact that the "engine guy" at kawi is publicly talking shit to Prado says everything.
We don't have a problem with him being transparent and upfront, kudos on him for that. What we don't like is how much effort he's putting in and not thanking the team and everyone else that has been working hard to help him.
And I think that is a fair criticism to have. The only thing I would say is we don’t actually know what’s going in the team, how much they are actually helping him or not. We’ve heard ‘they are doing all they can’ but we’ve not heard it from them, and I don’t know what that actually means.
On his on track effort, quitting and dropping back to 12-15th is never a good look. But I do think he started the races with the best intentions. He nearly always got a good start and would try to stay there. It’s obvious that he made a decision that he wasn’t going to push and risk injury just to finish 8th, and to be honest I understand that
I just prefer the unfiltered versions, riders perspective. MXGP riders are so much more straightforward in general. You can probably say half the MXGP paddock have thrown bikes and teams under the bus if you are that sensitive. Chase is straight fwd, RJ a bit more clear also.
There is to much "we" and general statements that gives absolutely no clarity on situations because people are afraid to hurt some feelings. We where in the dark for years with Tomac mysteriously tanking races.
People just get offended to much and easy these days.
Your not wrong, but Taka was brought in urgently once it became apparent something new was needed beyond what had been developed/tried.
I’m certainly not offended by Prado. I am baffled by how he’s managed himself this season. It’s a circus. Prado is a professional athlete that has chosen to put himself in the spotlight. That means he has to take the good with the bad.
Nobody is offended or lashing out in jealousy... Ridiculous take. People have opinions, and just because Prado is being vocal, which most of us appreciate, it doesn't automatically mean he's not full of shit.
agreed. wouldn't it be rad if our moto-media asked those questions of the team managers? Yeah, me too.
But that's selective. He has said multiple times team is working hard and putting in the effort, "they" will figure it out. Chase does the same and gets same shit for it.
There is no other team that works differently in the "they". Riders gives feedback (limited, poor, good or whatever), team takes feedback, looks at data, team alters things, test riders does their effort, and rider gets to try it. There is a very clear "they" in that. Rider isn't analyzing data, tuning engines or ECU, or suspension. He is laying it out as it actually works.
I don't want to hear a "we wil figure it out", because how many posts hasn't it been of people being sick of hearing the "we" on podium the last 10 years both in positive and negative terms?
The issue here is that people expect something to change due to time, and they have heard it 11 times. When status hasn't actually changed, you use the same words to describe the same status.
If the parts for engine now took a full season to deliver, why would he say something else than he is waiting for 9 races? If the parts weren't already on order and first came in after escalation as it seems, why did Kawi USA wait 8 races to fly in a senior kawi test rider?
Suspension I don't think Prado will ever be happy with on the Kawi. He is probably looking for air hold up and resistance to bottoming, with plushness. You can't get that same level on spring forks so fixing engine won't matter.
Haahaa!
You seem to be the one that’s offended, because people don’t see it the way you do. How many posts do you have in this thread???? 😂
Way to much time put into this.
LOL!! Ever the spin doctor..
Regardless if the team isn't talking to the media or not Prado has demonstrated its a him problem more than anything. When he puts in effort he can get a top 5 on that bike(Southwick). When he got abit of confidence from the mystery upgrade after Taka and the team from Japan came to help he got 5th again(Iron man?). JA does well on it. AC did better on it than Prado even with a very dodgy arm that led him to retire.
Its a risky sport. Everyone knows that. If he's not willing to risk anything that's a him problem. 39 others (pretty sure 35/36 are getting paid far less than him) are out there putting in more effort/risk. Thats all the fans want to see.
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Ahh don’t worry about it, your passion shines thru. 💯👍🏻
Why the hell did Kawasaki let it get this far? They know Prado quit races ago, they have Harrison valiantly putting a privateer Kawasaki into top tens often beating Prado, why the hell didn't this multi-billion dollar international company make this swap well before this one asshole publicly dragged their corporate reputation through the gutter? Prado has behaved as an asshole, but corporate Kawasaki allowed him to use the factory team as a very public platform to throw these childish tantrums.
Pretty little baby………yah yah
If they tell Prado to stay home they have to pay him. If they can get Prado to quit the team they can save money.
If Prado wants out Kawi wants to keep there money because they’ll want to look for another rider.
That's because the teams don't behave like professional motorsport teams. It's outrageous how bush league they are. Not announcing contracts for riders for example. FFS.
You forgot to put the inverted commas around media. It's moto 'media'.
I had a more eloquent response, but determined that this would be more appropriate:
Shut the fuck up. Your nose is so far up Prado’s ass that you can tell what his tonsils look like.
My wife and kid been singing that song and it's stuck in my head.
This is the most balanced take and I'm not sure why nobody agrees. Nobody has any idea what goes on during the week. Prado is a b2b world champ so it stands to reason he can really grit stuff out and get a bike setup. We know tomac had a tough time there and that team really hasnt done much since the '24 came out.
Heck maybe I'm crazy but is it at all possible that Jorge is telling the truth and the bike is genuinely a problem and he's not going to go right back to the couch and hurt himself trying to ride around it?
I think most people see him not give his best effort and then are just out on him immediately, which I do understand to an extent. If you look at from the other side though, Kawi signed this guy on a 4 year deal that would probably be worth close to $10M over the duration of the contract, that is a huge amount of money, especially in this sport, and he would rather go and ride for bonuses only than stay and work with you. WTF happened?
Thats what I'm saying man. It's kinda how it goes online but to look at what happens for an hour on saturday and think we know the full story is kinda.. silly. I also think Prado is one of the more intelligent riders. He seems very intellectually present in his interviews - I'm not thinking he's too stupid to get this going or too short sighted to consider the future. With that in mind, I'm thinking if he leaves, we're going to see a guy who either publicly hung himself and ruined his career or he knows something some of us dont know and he's comfortable betting on himself lol!!
I wonder if we'll ever find out the details of this saga or it's gonna be speculations forever. I hope he gets on gypsy tales and just spills the beans.
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