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washougal.
I mean, he has won 4 world championships. Which is 4x more than anyone actively riding in America, soooo…
Those things may have been Kawi bending over backwards, or they may have been reluctantly done by Kawi at Jorge’s insistence. We’ll never really know.
And your last sentence - come on you aren’t seriously using a press quote from a rider made while the ink was still wet on his fat new contract as evidence that the bike was ok?
Tomac has more than 4 world championships. So jot that down.
He struggled with his bike this year too.
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Even if you want to call him a world champion with a hall of fame resume, he has proven he is also a shitty person and a quitter.
Ugh, how many times do we have to explain this… Tomac has zero world championships. AMA Supercross and Motocross are domestic U.S. series. Prestigious, sure — but racing in one country doesn’t suddenly make it a world title. The world is a bit bigger than the U.S., and FIM World Championships are the actual global stage. Prado has those, Tomac doesn’t.
Listen to yourself. Of course they reluctantly went to club with the team and moved testing there. Reluctantly brought a test rider from Japan with new parts.
They were desperately trying to help him
Jorge's dad's name is Jesus.
I got a totally different vibe.
I appreciate that if Prado doesn’t agree with a question inference he’s not going to just go along with it and agree but give his honest opinion. I don’t see it as him having an attitude to just not agree. I haven’t seen Prado speak in a while but when I did he was optimistic and feeling like he could run with them.
I heard something about bike issues and I don’t think of Prado as being a cry baby but it must be scary if it’s not handling right and to be outside the top 5. Don’t take chances and end up with bad accidents like Roczen did who is claimed to be picky too.
They say he does ride a wide bike but that’s just his style if he’s used to being out front and to hold his lead. Prado may not have said no to Kawi but they may have decided like Craig just somehow switched from Yamaha. Theoretically, don’t quit just because you’re temporarily top 10 but there’s other factors like bike setup if he can do the obstacles or other contractual stuff we don’t know about.
Kawi has let other riders go under odd circumstances like Emig, Milsaps, and Stew. You could throw in Tomac if they couldn’t get him similarly comfortable with the hydro clutch. Remember how people were hard on Tomac’s dad as if he was butting heads with Kawi trying to run the show but we haven’t heard that since he’s been at Yami?
Shouldn’t happen on any damn bike bro 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I don’t know if you’ve heard, but US SX and MX basically IS the world championship where the best of the best race. I’ll take a SX championship over a MXGP championship any day of the week and twice on sundays. Shoot I’d rather have a west coast regional championship over a MX2 title racing in BFE.
How about a white ktm husky?
I dont think the issue is with his results when he tried....
You do realize you can have a world championship by having competition from all over the world without actually leaving one continent?
I’m halfway convinced at this point this account is some sort of elaborate bot or something. More than half the replies are very clearly Ai generated, the overuse of hyphens being the biggest giveaway. Tons of the same Ai generated replies in other Prado threads and the KTM financial threads. Go run some of the posts through an Ai detector yourself.
Wasn’t there a dude sent from Spain about a myth the world not being flat or is that a different concept than motocross?
This is the point I keep coming back to. On the topic of qualifying at Budds Creek alone, there have been ZERO quotes from Kawasaki or Prado saying that he deliberately tried not to qualify. No one on the record, just a lot of assumptions by the media and the fans following the media reports. I think there’s a reason for this lack of reporting, but I am not sure why.
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No, no you can’t, that’s a domestic championship with international riders participating. Herlings took part in the British championship in 2024. He is Dutch. Does he get to call himself world champion for that?
Good for you. You still won’t be world champion though.
Herlings probably made more prize money in those British championship races than he did all year racing the “prestigious world championship” so there is that….
Best of the best I’d say is the des nations. Tim Gasjer is champion of that at the moment, keep trying..:
Did winning a domestic championship (like the US one) make him world champion though? Hmm
I also remember Tim looking like a novice on our tamed down monster cup track too one year.
The fairground races that even the promoter ditched. Yep
Prado is the only rider to come over from another country to race SX and MX and acted like a spoiled brat because he could not perform up to his or Kawasaki’s standards. I was a huge fan of Prado of so much now.
Well your latest world champion didn’t do jack over here. Send another one over for the year. Ohh Yaa and you said Tomac has ZERO world championships, but you must be corrected, Eli is THE REINING FIM WORLD SUPERCROSS CHAMPION. I repeat, REINING FIM WORLD SUPERCROSS CHAMPION. So actually regarding your post earlier saying Eli wasn’t a world champion, he actually is and he has all these domestic ones too.
I am trying to keep this in mind and reserve judgement, but I fear he may have irreparably damaged his career, at least State-side. Wherever he goes, whatever he ends up riding next, he is going to have to come out swinging, with podium finishes, in order to salvage his career here. That's some enormous pressure.
Where do people think he will finish on a ktm? Is he top 5-10 material with the current competition in the states? People may have to either go back and edit what they typed or stand by it. Is the goal to be on a ktm and still race here or be a claimed cry baby type and go back to Europe? Switching bikes and still running SMX isn’t backing down.
That`s 5 guys, 2 Aussies and 3 Americans 😅
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