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Prado’s early lap speed through the whoops was on point to the elite riders. How long has Justin Cooper been working on whoops? It’s hard to believe anyone wouldn’t say he’s exceeding expectations.
im feeling like he got tired. it takes alot for ricky to point out dirty riding. or maybe weege did his job for him? i cant remember.
That's why he ran his fastest lap on the last lap of the last race?
Race 1 he wasn't fast enough and made a mistake every time someone would pass him and lose time. Race 2 he didn't adjust his lines when the track went away.
He'll learn. It's only round 4. If the goal is to gain experience and make all rounds I'd say he's accomplishing that so far. He's also the only rider in the top 10 in points that hasn't crashed all season. Not even in practice
He’s 7th overall ahead of how many former champs who have ridden supercross for 5-10+ years already…
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Prados doing damn good. Needs a little more confidence to fight back after being passed, but it’s good to see him move forward when he gets a bad start. He’s showing potential to be a solid #2 guy at KTM.
I read someone saying yesterday that “Prado got schooled” after the first race. That’s a strange take considering his best lap time was in the 46s something only two other riders managed to do and he led the race for quite a while. Honestly, this isn’t even worth arguing about. He’s clearly not far off the very top of the elite riders and already has some stats that are better than some top guys who’ve been racing here for a decade (heat wins for example)
Just some perspective: so far he’s outscored Justin Cooper in 3 of the 4 races. Cooper is a 250 SX champ, Prado has 0 250 SX races under his belt. I’d say Prado is doing very good.
I don’t think some people are ready for the conversation about how high Prado’s ceiling might be in SX.
Maybe be better than 8th in points before having crow on the menu. The only one he’s beating that I didn’t expect is AP.
Prado has always been elite but even this is surprising, actually starting to wonder if he can win one of these by the end of the year
If Deegan moved in to the 450 class right now, would he beat Prado?
I don’t think he would.
I'll admit he is doing better than last year would've led me to believe. I'm kinda impressed. But, if he keeps cutting guys off in rhythm lanes somebody is going to have enough and send him to the cheap seats.
If he gains even 5% pace those holeshots turn to wins with healthy margins instead of having to defend. Interesting to watch tho!
What's with the cross-jumping though?
That's Nothing......If prado has been american you wound't have heard anything about this.....but first it was a quitter.... and now this........
Bingo. Listened to pulps review and that’s all the mentioned, nothing even close to how he was in masssive contention for the win going into race 3. It’s wild to watch lmao.
In front of Hunter? Probably payback for Hunter`s start last weekend.
Yeah, I like those 3 but that was an absolute joke. Nothing at all about how he could have been on the podium, how he’s getting better every week and is already a legit Top 450 SX guy 10 races into his SX career. ‘Cross-jumping’ was the only thing they talked about, I went and watched the races back just to see if I missed anything first time, and I really think anyone would be hard pressed to find anything remotely dangerous or him doing anything that others were not also doing.
It’s true he has a reputation from GP’s of riding a wide bike, sometimes over the line, and I think some people are looking for it when it’s not really there. I have no doubt it will be there at some point, but so far this season, I have not seen anything close to worthy of the kind of narrative that’s going around after Houston. It’s disappointing that people simply can’t give him the credit he deserves
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Nationality has nothing to do with the guy being criticized. He’s a known quitter and a dirty rider.
If Prado is doing this well in supercross on the bike he had to be on, I think outdoors is going to be special. I question if Jett is going to dominate starting at Pala.
Nationality has plenty to do with it
Nope.
We watch these people race for their skill on motorcycles, not because they are choir boys. Much like Deegan or any number of these dudes that behave poorly or inappropriately what matters is how they add to the competition in the end. If we only want to watch morally upstanding people race it is going to be hard to fill the gates.
Didn't realize that coulda woulda shoulda were determining factors in what should be discussed in a post race review....
I knew absolutely nothing of his reputation as riding a wide bike and called out his cross jumping antics as they happened Saturday night. It was pretty damn obvious...
I dunno man. 🤷♂️
That’s what the entire discussion ends up being lol….. have you listened to any of them? Roczen looked good until, or sexton was ripping until, or Tomac was ripping until…. Are you actually serious…
Calm down Sally Nationality has nothing to do with it...more like there was so much to talk about the racing action because there was a lot going on in both classes and Jorge's close but not quite close enough 5-3-11 7th O/A isn't going to make the discussion grade when we had the racing we had Saturday night....
I would normally expect them to mention somebody leading the majority to one of the races, or you know, their race performance at all.
They were even trying to stick it on him last week about his heat win at A2 and there was nothing there at all
They found the time to talk about him, they just used it to try and make out that he was sawing people in half down rhythm lanes rather than talk about how he actually rode
And where did Tomac finish? and where did Roczen finish? Sexton? pretty sure they all finished ahead of Jorge so of course they are going to get discussed more. I'm not sure what you Prado apologists want but he is getting equal coverage if not more than he deserves from the media....he finished 7th O/A not sure what you expect...
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