Upgrade to enjoy this feature!
Vital MX fantasy is free to play, but Premium users receive great benefits. Premium benefits include:
- View and download rider stats
- Pick trends
- Create a private league
- And more!
Only $10 for all 2026 SX, MX, and SMX series.
Because monster refused to consider or discuss early termination.
Desperate times calls for desperate actions. Riding that contract out wasn't good for anyone.
So, you're saying he quit to get out of it?
And someone who quits is called a... winner?
Signed
You can’t be helped.
The Shop
Free shipping: VITALMX
DeCal Works Huge Plastic Inventory of UFO and Polisport kits.
Luxon 4-Post Bar Mounts
$189.95 - $239.95
Honestly, if he gets top 4 overall in standings this SX season and chase gets 5th overall or worse..
I will make my own apology post to Jorge.
we’re only 1 race in sure… but so far it sure do look like, IT’S THE BIKE
Unrelated and no offense but how many of yall divorced and calling Jorge a quitter?
I was a big fan…. And I’m happy he has it going back in the right direction.
But he literally tried not to qualify for a race he is paid millions to race. I simply cannot and will not respect that.
Did he honor his contact? Questionable. Quitter? Maybe. Refuse to take any responsibility for what happened? Definitely.
He will still have fans, I’m just not one of them anymore.
Nope, 40th anniversary coming next year…
If these people don’t apologize immediately I believe Prado may have a gRoSs nEgLiGeNcE claim against them. The world is full of it these days and justice must served.
j/k stoked see Prado prove everyone wrong.
I’m sorry Mr Prado, I was unfamiliar with your game.
I am a Prado fan and super glad for his podium, but he was still almost 30 seconds behind the lead. He is such a good started I think he will have more good finishes, but when he does not get a start I do not see him moving up.
I'm not a 'fan' of any rider. 'Fan' is short for fanatic. Don't like fanatics or haters. Too emotional for me.
That said, super pleased that Prado did so well, and I hope he keeps it up. The guy is a massive talent, and he clearly knows more than internet goobers when it comes to his career. It was pathetic watching nobodies try to boost their own poor self esteem by attempting to tear him (and others) down.
Imagine any other rider getting 3rd in the elite class, with almost no experience in SX.
Do we believe a world champion who looks much better on a KTM than he ever did on a Kawasaki, has a history of winning championships and never quitting, or do we believe a shady company that lied to everyone about a 2 stroke dirt bike just for social media clicks?
Your choice.
(this is meant to be funny btw, for those who take most things in life too seriously)
Quitter, Quitter.Quitter.Quitter. Quitter.Quitter. Quitter, Quitter.... 😆
Last season i was swinging my comments one back and forth ( mostly defending him)
The fact is none of us on here know the facts, so it was just all opinions
Do the shit slingers have to apologize, no not really, I'm hoping his results continue and the fans start supporting him again for making our sport ( impaticular for the euros) more interesting
😂😂😂
Another hot take I’ll provide for free is at this point I think what he did last summer was BA. Dude cares so little about other people’s opinions and had so much self confidence that he was going to self sabotage to prove a point. That’s a statement.
In a world full of men who get told what to do by women and employers, I appreciate that. Dude backed himself and stood on business and that’s why most of you don’t like him😂
Please state what you would have done. Riding it out for 3y is not an option.
All attempt to resolving it through meetings and suggestions has been exhausted.
Pit Row
ummm...yeah, great analogy Einstein! 🙄
So you are asking how many people here were getting paid millions of dollars by their spouse to ride them for 3 years after 1 year said, "Sorry Honey but your suck in bed." and divorced them. 😆
Its all a moot point while Jett is sidelined
Why, because he can't take an ass whipping?
You have to show up to be in the conversation.
This thread isn't about what I would have done, so no need to change the subject and derail the thread.
People are calling him a quitter while others are saying he's not and the OP feels Prado is owed an apology by the former group because he finished 3rd at A1. I'm not sure what recent race results have to do with his conduct last year, but like so many topics on here the issues get muddied and emotion rules the day.
Your post heavily implied that he quit - possibly because he felt it was a last resort, but still quit - to get out of an arrangement that wasn't going the way he envisioned when he agreed to it. If that's the case then you are admitting he's a quitter and I was asking why so many are saying he's not and object to calling him one. But the reason for quitting wouldn't change the fact that he quit, agreed?
Lord knows I'm wading into dangerous waters here but it seems to me that people are objecting to the term "quitter" because they think others are saying that's how he does everything (which is obviously not the case). But you only have to kill one person to be a killer and once you've done it you are never not a killer - it applies forever going forward.
So, you can be a hard-working, likable, multi-time champion and still be a quitter. Doesn't mean you quit on everything all the time, but it would still be accurate and correct to put on a list of accomplishments (along with likable, champion, etc.). So, I don't see where people who accurately identified his behavior need to apologize for it. Heck, they might even be rooting for him going forward but despise how he handled the situation - I don't see them being mutually exclusive - sort of like parents being extremely disappointed in their kid but they aren't going to stop loving them (but that's just me, others might disagree).
Hope it clarifies things. 👍
Question is… can he finish on the podium without a good start ? He looked great last night, no doubt. But can he come through the pack ?
If he's still scoring top 5 after 5 races, then Kawi have a problem. Seeing Sexton paddle around like it was his first pro race, and how Anderson was motoring on the '09 yellow buffalo... hmm..we'll see.
A1 is always a crapshoot. He got lucky.
Reason is everything.
If kawi would have given him a shitty stock bikenas the only option, no one would even discuss not qualifying as a quitting approach would them.
You don't have a answer, because there was only two options:
Ride out the contract, or take drastic actions.
Don't need a book for a reply for that.
It was said that he didn’t know the top 10 was automatically seeded in and when he found out he told Kawi he wanted to race the LCQ (for a better gate pick I think) and Kawi told him no because they thought he would sabotage that race like he did with not putting a top 40 lap time inabd purposely not qualify. So Kawi basically forced him to be out there at the last race because of his effort, or lack of.
Could there have been a third option where he rides hard and quietly has his agent and lawyers working behind the scenes to buy himself out of his contract since he made a mistake signing with them? Bubba rode his ass off on that JGR Yamaha and still got out of his contract after sx and changed teams outdoors. I don’t remember James not trying to qualify and I’m sure that Yamaha was a little scarier then the Kawi.
No, more or less. Ken, Tomac, Hunter, Chase (nornally) can. Webb on the right tracks.
But Prado did have Roczen aggression before AP and Webb fucked it up, scrubbing, getting close. So will be interesting to see.
Top 10 is very very tight. 1.07 from Prado to craigh in 11th.
No, because Monster refused to discuss it.
Do you think they gave it a week and gave up? We are talking full season pretty much before it got resolved, with drastic actions. You also need to consider the other team situation.
Kawi was fine with a break up, Monster wasn't. They stole a Redbull athlete and for sure didn't want him to go back to a competitor.
Post a reply to: Official Prado Public Apology Thread