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Wow, I never anticipated Jason Lawrence suddenly becoming a social media agent provocateur in 2026. This is gonna be a helluva season.
I was told spring of 2025 is when the deal was completed.
How do you know this?
6 months ago, people were complaining that the Uptite account was being posted to by 3 different people.
What's the real story?
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I really don’t understand the ”let’s see how Prado performs on the KTM so we can compare it to his Kawasaki results”
He is a 4 time world champion on the KTM, and while he did not yell with the Kawasaki, the bike was nowhere near as bad as his own effort he put in.
So ofc we will do better on the KTM as long as he tries his best, something he did not do on the Kawasaki.
And as it goes for Sexton, we have seen him be the same guy on two different brands now and I think we will see the same Sexton on a third brand.
Just to round this up it’s sad tho see Jlaw going downwards again, he has shown plenty of times that he is a massive fan of the sport and did good with his Whiskey throttle appearances, but now he has gone full Coocksey retard.
So???? Jorge singed a contract.... doesn't matter WTF else was going on.... but it was obvious before Jorge signed, that kawi was a chit show top to bottom... sign with a chit show, you gonna have a chit show ride.... /thread
That people believe a multi-billion dollar international corporation would deliberately sabotage it's own efforts and sully it's public image is unbelievable. These race teams are an international multi-million dollar enterprise vital corporate image.
Have you not seen that same Multi billion dollar organisation do the same thing, over and over.
Or was that Sarcasm.
So Prado didn't like DatSoCalLyfeBrah, maybe when he left he got into a grudge match with Kawi where he felt like everyone from Kawi needed to relocate over there with him and Kawi felt that he should have stayed in Cali since that's probably what they agreed to originally and that's where all the Kawi staff is, so then that inability to figure it out and leads to never really spending the time together to get the bike setup, so he somewhat tanks his season thinking it will motivate Kawi to do what he wants, which IF that were the case, I'd say good on the employer for not letting the employee dictate how they run their business.
J Law is still interesting and still relevant . I enjoyed watching him ride at mini o’s this year .
One of the smoothest, most stylish and interesting riders I’ve ever seen . Even riding in 6th place 40 plus at Loretta’s .
Also - it was an interesting angle I had not thought of.
The average fan doesn’t have fuck all of clue what really goes on inside the pits . I’d say he has a reasonable body of work to be staking a claim like this . Or at least he’s just keeping his hat in the ring .
But if anyone said anyyyyything about kawi not doing what they were supposed to do it was so outlandish.
JLaw consistently did not show up for sponsors, testing, or other commitments. He wasted an entire career so I would argue he doesn't know fuck all about the workings of a real team since he essentially never rode for one. Prado was a tool all year and gave up after riding around in 18th. Maybe the Kawi is terrible, but for some reason that just doesn't add up.
Yo J law raced at mini os and was stoking out all the 85 riders in practice
Where were you ?
You've used interesting three times, interesting to whom? in what way? Especially since more than a few of his bullet points have been debunked by members here.
For some reason this guy is remembered fondly, for not any good reason. Yea, he's won a handful of races, and one title. Great, that's an achievement. He also stiffed his mechanic with a rental car bill at the peak of his earning years, how many times did his team drive around the country for him not to show up, or to show up and do a few laps, the pull off. After that, it was year after year of maybe coming back, the arma team comes to mind, and nothing. Its fine to not race but you cant tell me those teams didn't start prepping a bike, marketing exc getting ready for him to race.
He last had something to contribute from a Pro standpoint 15 years ago. It ain't all that interesting.
The part that makes me shake my head is the rationalizing of Prado’s behavior by using Kawasaki’s interest in Sexton as an excuse. If the reports are true, Prado had a 3 year contract with Kawasaki. Signing Sexton wouldn’t have put Prado on the unemployment line. There would still be no motivation for Kawasaki to ‘sabotage’ Prado, his bike, or anything related to his success.
What it does point to is the possibility/probability of Prado being a delicate diva who was more interested in being “The One” than in winning races.
Of course this is assuming that anything Lawrence said is rooted in reality, and that’s a pretty big leap of faith.
The dude had massive talent on a dirt bike. That's what he's remembered for.
He also donated a large chunk of cash to build Danny "Magoo" Chandler a conversion van. I don't forget things like this.
What I don't get, is the bandwagon of people who think it's OK to hate on a guy who made mistakes early in his life.
I'm not pointing a finger at you, or anyone in particular.
Addiction sucks. It's an illness. I'm glad he's moving forward in his life. I hope the others in our sport that have been derailed by drugs, or anything else pull it together too. If they race again, great! If they don't, great!
Let's root for people to get it together and achieve whatever it is they're going for. I believe that's more what this community is about.
I fully admit I know nothing about his addiction struggles.
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Dude - what I think is rad is he’s still riding.
Not winning , not a pro , hardly in the limelight and seems to prefer avoiding it
But riding . For the love of it . Cause it’s fun
What doesn’t add up is your assertion that the guy who rode a Yamaha of Troy YZ250F to the 2008 Lites SX title (beating Ryan Dungey) “essentially never rode for a real team.” I mean, wasn’t YOT basically the Yamaha factory satellite team back then?
Maybe him donating to Magoo's van is why he set up a go fund me to get himself a bike after his stolen.....and then his original bike was recovered and returned to him. Did he return everyone's $? Nope.
Yes it was, but a far cry from a Factory Kawi program. He also barely showed up for training, testing, flipped rental cars, was arrested etc etc etc. Yes, he won some races and a lites title, but if he could beat Dungey that one season what happened after that when Dungey won 9 combined titles and 7 on big bikes?
yea, a lot of us are still riding. That’s kind of what we all do here. How does he seem to prefer avoiding the limelight while constantly posting dumb shit takes on instagram in hopes of some free boots and parts. Maybe it’s just me getting older, but J Law is a clown and a mooch.
You keep wanting to litigate Lawrence’s personal issues but I was only addressing your claim that he wasn’t on a professional team. While there’s no question that there was a difference between the factory Kawasaki 450 team and the YoT 250 support team, there were probably more similarities than not: professional athletes hired to compete at the highest level of supercross competition in the US, involving professional managers, mechanics and support personnel.
Those ‘expectations’ are they Steve’s or KTM’s. Because if they are Steve’s they don’t matter.
I have so many good stories post arma team living at Izzi’s with Nico and jay. I don’t think either of them are proud of those times so I’ll just keep them to myself as I should.
Bumping this conspiracy theory up given Prado’s and Sexton’s A1 performance.
Yes, I know Sexton crashes so him crashing on the Kawi is not unexpected. However for Prado you gotta believe the bike change mattered.
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