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Hey guys, there’s no judgment here.
Please feel free to post your public apology to Prado, welcome to get anything off your chest relating to this subject.
for example, “I’m very sorry Jorge, I just didn't fully understand world class racing” etc
The floor is yours guys
I would like to apologize for absolutely nothing. The guy is A proven quitter...
This narrative was always insane and even more so now
Aren't we at the point yet where we start dropping the word "narrative"? Jesus Christ that's been obnoxious over the last few years.
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One race erases it all?
Irrelevant. Perseverance is not an outside action, it’s internal and intentional. He had a bike, he could have still put in a 100% effort.
If Prado issues a public explanation/apology it might clear things up. He probably can’t due to contractual agreements. But without more information, I’m disappointed in his performance last year.
Not sorry.
I like Jorge and I'm hoping this podium is a sign of him turning things around. How does his podium make him not a quiter? He purposely tried to not qualify for a National.
How is he a quitter? What if that bike was genuinely not setup to ride safe for him? What if the team was genuinely not providing for him what he needed? If this was the case, who would be the expert authority to say so? That would be Jorge Prado. Who would have the authority to counter these claims? That would be the team structure that NEVER commented.
You old heads get an idea in your mind and refuse to ever change and it’s embarrassing. Dude went from being beaten by privateers to winning his heat and podiuming and the ONLY change he made is bike+team. Yet, many still say “yeah he just quit last year that’s the problem”. You guys honestly aren’t smart enough to vote let alone drive a car.
His career has been 10 years, not one, and it’s been hugely successful and what he has achieved wouldn’t be possible for a quitter. He’s shown himself to be elite in every capacity for the best part of a decade, it would be sensible to give him the benefit of the doubt for the one year where he had difficulty. He’s not the first rider to not gel with a team and have it end badly, and he won’t be the last
This X1000
You’re basing your opinion on your own idea that the factory Kawasaki motocross team was actively working against their star rider. That defies logic. I’m guessing that you’re taking Prados public statements about the bike and exaggerating them to an absurd degree, but if you have some sort of evidence to support your claims, I’d love to see it.
Meanwhile, I’ll be driving and voting whenever I want.
Weird, didn't quit winning his 4 World Titles.
Jesus you guys are arguably worse than Deegan bedbugs. Great night for him last night, but let’s see how he responds to some adversity then we’ll see what we got. He had great starts and his speed was way better than I expected in SX but A1 always has weird stuff. He rode around in his own world for the most part last night. Can we ease it up a bit? No one jumped all over him in one bad race last year, it took multiple rounds of half ass effort and quitting. One great ride doesn’t erase that.
If you can find or say they made the bike 20% better. Then the bike was more of a problem than Prado. In a sport where the wrong tire choice or rebound makes a 1% difference and ruins a night, Prado had to be riding a pile. Kawi, of course, wasn't working against him. They went down a path, and Prado probably lost hope, and that was that, 20% though. Even Phil was blown away by that.
He never said kawi was actively working against prado. He said what if kawi wasnt providing what prado was asking for, Which is highly likely by the way prado acted last season, chances are kawi promised him the world and did not deliver on what they promised.
Its been stated over the years by other riders that kawi wouldn’t let them do/try certain things.
Prado was fantastic last night, and his 4 titles speak for themselves, he’s a great rider who’s well proven his abilities. He has a very solid chance at US titles this year. The guy can ride, he’s in shape, and he seems to fit with KTM really well.
But none of that will change my opinion about his performance last year, especially in the outdoors. It could be that he did what he had to do to get out of a contract that wasn’t a good fit for him? It might even have been the best thing he could do for his career in the long term. I still think he acted incredibly unprofessional, and unless someone has solid evidence of Kawi sabotaging him, my opinion probably won’t change.
I think he needs a solid season of results (not just one race) to fully redeem himself. For sure his results last night show potential to quickly erase last year.
If he can run off a streak of top 5 finishes, I think it would be ok to start a thread like this. But honestly, outdoors is where he needs to prove himself..
I said it before…
I think he felt so desperate to leave the team and machine that he realised he must behave in a way that means absolute separation from the team…
Anything softer and he would probably have beeing ”forced” to stay there 2 more years and he knew deep inside that was disaster.
Im sure he is not proud of that episode of his career, we will hopefully get to know the full story in a book/dokumentary when he is done racing…
My 2 € cents
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If Kawi doesn't issue a public explanation I remain disappointed in their performance last year. (and this year so far)
He still handled the whole Kawasaki deal terribly, but this podium does certainly give his his greivances some immediate credibility. He looks like a completely different rider. Chase meanwhile, seemed to spend more time off the track than on it.
Everything went his way for 10 years so he couldn't possibly be a quiter? When he finally saw some adversity, he said no thank you. Again, he purposely tried to not qualify for a National. The very definition of quiting.
Edit: If it makes you feel better, he quit LAST YEAR.
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lol you clearly haven't been following his career 😂 Everything went his way is an interesting statement.
You can't not qualify for a national when you sit top 10 in points by the way, no matter how hard you "try". But I guess if the "media" thinks he tried to do so it has to be true. omg
Edit. I'm not saying he didn't quit last year. He tried to get out of the contract obviously. I'm not saying he handled the situation in the best way but we also don't know the full story. Clearly he doesn't let a multi million dollar contract slide to order to ride for free when there isn't a ton more to the story.
“Everything went his way for 10 years” and “finally saw some adversity”. Both wrong FYI
I’m a Kawasaki fan to a fault; yet, I don’t have the capacity to spew the crazy shit some of you do about a dude that simply couldn’t get the confidence he needed to get going, again, after an injury at a time when he’d changed up EVERYTHING in his life and had virtually NO support network like he did when he won…wait…how many World Titles does he have…?
Anyways, the dude had “fallen out of his tree”…& now he’s climbed back up there and is enjoying the view.
Hey, Jorge? GET SOME!
The rest of you…here…
One race result doesn't undo a season of quitting and blaming others. It really doesn't matter if his results improve or not, people were upset with his attitude and the fact that he quit.
No one needs to apologize other than Prado.
The OP is doing nothing here but starting a shit stirring thread. I’m not really a Prado fan, but only he will ever know the real reasons behind what happened last season. I give him props for his performance at A1.
Why don’t we let the guy race, and STFU about the 2025 stuff? Jeeez!
Great ride great turnaround BUT...
What would Hannah say? I think he would say that third is awesome but he was a little too happy given he got beat by 30 seconds. Champion mindset would dictate he shouldn't be happy until he's battling for a win or at least keeping his 40yo teammate within sight.
If you think everything went his way and he never had any adversity in 10 years you are sorely mistaken and it only highlights that you probably don’t know near enough about him to call him a quitter.
Look at that, some honest-to-goodness “Show-me state” logic.
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