Nobody is talking about Jason Lawrence’s FB post?

What’s your take on it ? 

Do you mind taking a screenshot pls? Can't see without an account.

I’d say JLaw is about 15% right, but mostly wrong in his assessment of the situation. 

Same here, can someone post it here. I don’t have FB

Added the Instagram post. 

I was a j-Law fan when I was younger.. these days, while I do follow him I often don’t allign with the things he says..

This sounds like one of those things where someone connected a bunch of dots, some of it may be true, some just heresay.. but a lot of the things he says kinda make sense, as far as I know he gets Kawi contingency money so it seems like an odd move, but the moto industry is right and just because we don’t hear about things, doesn’t mean others don’t know.. jett injury silence is a great example of that

Jason Lawrence

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To the MXGP and AMA fans, this is what I saw happen to @jorgeprado61 in 2025. 
Once Chase was signed for 2026, Kawi borderline sabotaged Jorge’s season. 
If anyone quit, it’s Kawasaki. 
Jorge’s been a consummate professional throughout this process. 
Content creators trying to capitalize on his struggles just widens the gap between what’s really happening and what was perceived. 
Thanks to @whiskeythrottlemedia for the video clip, but this video does not reflect the views or beliefs of WhiskeyThrottleMedia

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Jorge's struggles in 2025 with Kawasaki were documented in pretty great detail by the American motocross media.

The only problem is that story really just does not check out.

To be straightforward with you, here's what happened to Jorge Prado.

Jorge says that after he did his supercross races over here in 2024, pretty much all the manufacturers reached out to him in some sense but Kawasaki expressed extra interest.

Furthermore, he says that his dad and trainer spent time with Team Kawasaki in California as they showed them the program they were going to provide to Jorge and he was absolutely wooed by this program and was committed to Kawasaki from that point forward.

They sold Jorge on a program that he was going to be the main rider and it was going to be for long term.

They showed him the sunshine and the beaches and they showed him that he's going to be in close proximity to the race team and that was going to help aid his transition over here.

They did not bother to tell him that since he's riding for that manufacturer, he's not going to be able to go where he needs to be and that's Aldon Baker.

He's going to be riding public tracks with riders of various skill levels.

Not only is it going to be dangerous but it's going to be one hell of a distraction because every time he rides, he's going to be filmed by somebody or somebody else.

Every time he goes to the track, he's going to be doing an interview for somebody or somebody else.

When Jorge starts out the supercross season, he gets hurt at the third round and although he's back on the bike at the beginning of April [2025], he's [not aware of the opportunity] to be able to line up and get valuable supercross experience at the end of the season.

No.

He is forced to wait for the out.

Jorge comes to the conclusion that he needs to get the hell out of California.

Kawasaki is not really lending shit for a helping hand in this case because they don't have any resources on the East coast.

So Jorge goes to the only place that he knows and that's Club MX because that's where his teammate Jason Anderson has previously taken his program.

Hey, he's back on the bike and he's at Club MX the second week of April, but wait, 2 weeks earlier, we already broke the news that Chase Sexton signed for 3 years with this manufacturer.  How can that be?

We don't ever hear Jorge talking about this and how it affected him mentally or what it meant for his future.

No, he shows up at the [first race and he] does good. He's pretty vocal about the fact that he needs the bike to be better.

But the 2nd race, same thing.

3rd race and the same thing.

Brock Tickle on the Pulp show.  What he says is that all the team's been out there for 5 days.

Yeah, well look at the schedule of our races. That's pretty damn convenient.

Then we go and we hit the sandtrack where, let's be honest, Jorge should've won this thing. He doesn't have the performance that he thinks he should have.

But in the post-race, they're acting like everything's all cherries.  No -- It's not all cherries over here.

Brock Tickle on the Pulp show.  Well, he calls in there the damn same day that he just got done testing that motor. Ain't that funny? He breaks it down with a timeline and you know what that timeline shows?

Jorge got 1 motor update after Southwick. Guess what? Crickets on testing the rest of the year.

Why is this? Well I would say it would have to go back to what Chase Sexton just let us know about in the 2026 Supercross preview show.

And that is that Kawasaki approached him at the middle of his KTM deal. So let's say December [2024]. That's before Jorge has ever even lined up behind the gate on a Kawasaki.

And then before Jorge can even get back on the bike to start prepping for the outdoors, let alone line up behind a gate for the outdoors, they've already signed Chase.

Well, if you don't put this timeline together correctly, it gets kinda crazy for him to say that the team is not even helping him develop the bike until you realize his future is not there with that team. They are not doing development on that bike. They are certainly not traveling across the country.

It was never realistic to think that they were going to be able to pay both of these riders. So honestly Jorge Prado's future is definitely done with Kawasaki by March [2025].

So anything moving forward where Kawasaki or their employees are going to call Jorge Prado a quitter for what happened in 2025, I feel like that must just be a case of projecting because they quit on Jorge Prado.

Pretty wild take I’d say.  So me physically seeing, several different times, Tickle riding his ass off, a whole different way I might add, the many mechanics tweaking and conversating about the bike, Prado testing lap after lap at Fox Raceway, in the shittiest of conditions was all a sabotage effort and smoke screen by Kawi?  Could be a case where there is smoke there is also fire but I don’t see it being related to Prado or Kawi…

does it really matter at this point 🤔 shit didn’t work out like everyone thought it would , kawi moved onto something better , brotha prado moved onto something better , it is wht it is at this point 🤷🏾‍♂️

Seems like there's some truth to what was said in the video. I think the Kawasaki program is a bit stale at his point compared to the other manufacturers with having a SoCal show-up program vs an East Coast lifestyle program. They had success with Tomac because it was Eli in his prime years with his own facility, but it seemed like he was always wanting more from the bike as well.

Of course, Jorge should have known what kind of program Kawasaki was running when he signed with them.

J-Law's speculation depends on the assumption that Kawasaki didn't have the budget to pay both Prado and Sexton.  I'm not sure on that claim because I think a lot of the budget was from Monster.  
 

Otherwise it seems like a reasonable explanation for the lack of motivation from Prado and Sexton last year.

Wonder if Jlaw is going to get some free boots from Jorge and Ping a thank you??

What is there to discuss? Prado came over telling anyone who would listen that he was going to win championships in America ,when it did t happen,instead of taking any of the blame he pointed the finger at kawasaki for being the reason. 

At what point did Jlaws opinions become anything that was considered credible....

He's disappointed a couple different teams over the years, so he might be the most experienced person in this situation.

Agreed. This is a big nothing.

J law has a pretty methed up opinion of the situation. But I wouldn’t expect less from someone who also was a quitter.

Nothing ever surprises me with Kawasaki.

But expecting it to be different, is ignoring life.   Any job you go for, they always promise stuff they never deliver, and mostly people fall for it, without understanding two things.  Why is this job available, and why are the things you are promising you will be doing for me, not part of your program already. 

No Factory team should have to pull stuff out of a hat to attract a rider , if it isnt there now, it is never happening. 

Maybe its time to wheel Jake Weimer out again, to remind us how things really are. 

But the reason nobody talks about JLaw, is because he hasnt been relevant since Deegan was in diapers . 

Say what you will about J-Law, but I found his observations to be outstandingly articulate, original, and insightful during that string of like 2 to 4 months when he was on a few WhiskeyThrottle videos about 2 years ago.

Jlaw needs to go away. Dude is a loser. 

you've already lost if JLaw is defending you.

As soon as I heard Jorge’s been a consummate professional throughout this process. I was done with this theory.

We will see this year.  If he comes out and consistently finishes top 5-8 in SX and wins Outdoors, there was clearly a disconnect with the bike.  To say Kawi didn't help him with the bike is laughable.  Why would they want their bike to look terrible?

J law should focus on becoming employed 

Is it that surprising that no one was talking about it? It’s a post by Jason Lawrence ffs. And yeah… gonna need someone to corroborate JLaw’s story before I believe any of it.

 Stank, thanks for that !

I think J-law is basically braindead. At this point he’s just saying random shit to get attention and feel important. 

They did not bother to tell him that since he's riding for that manufacturer, he's not going to be able to go where he needs to be and that's Aldon Baker.

He's going to be riding public tracks with riders of various skill levels.

Not only is it going to be dangerous but it's going to be one hell of a distraction because every time he rides, he's going to be filmed by somebody or somebody else.

In no universe was Prado under the impression he could be on Kawasaki, and train with Aldon.  I'm reasonably sure my grandma is aware that Bakers factory is ktm group exclusive.

There are also many, many private facilites these days for riders of his caliber.  Making it seem like he didn't have the option is nonsense.