Prado is inviting for dinner

Kawi and JP:

In SX it was cool-ish..?

Im MX it was catastrophe!

He wanted out…

Kawi said no!

Monster said no!

He made it happen still! (Not pretty) Extreme situations require extreme measures, im sure he felt panic.

Now back home on Katoom, all good!

Give it a rest about the ”quitting” part, yes he gave up but for a reason… changes absolutely needed to happen! 

Stop turning this into a nationality argument. It is like your 100th comment about it. What do you call someone who boils everything down to nationality and race? Sexton is absolutely in the same boat as Prado in my book. He whines and whines about everything and won't look at himself. He is difficult to admire as well. P.S. I am Canadian, so I am not picking riders because of where they are from (unless they were from Canada, then lets be honest, I would cheer them on for 20th place.) whether they are from USA, France, Germany, Zimbabwe, doesn't matter in my assessment of which riders I admire.

The Webb issue of taking a summer off, for some reason doesn't rub me the wrong way as it was fairly obvious that he reached an agreement without being an ass to his employer. He gave up pay and said he wouldn't be racing because of his personal issues, not expecting to be paid and then not trying or basically using your effort as blackmail.

Winning is definitely his best option as you are right, this sport has long term memory issues. The rest of his career may have been a bit strong, it will eventually blow over, but I feel for him that it may impact his most competitive "era" of his career. By the time another team has any interest in testing him again, he may not be in his prime. That basically gives the keys to KTM to do exactly what they did this time, and low ball him with confidence that nobody else will outbid them.

Prado did OK at Southwick, I'm not prepared to say he wasn't ever trying to make the Kawi work. Did he give up at some point? Appears so. Was it tactful? Not always, but not never either. Did he pay for his mistake? Yes, not only in money but a year of his career that Kawasaki was at least partially responsible for.  Look at how Kawi turned Sexton's bike upside down with PC components after A1; no pre-season prep races and Prado beats Sexton at A1. Might be good people at Kawi, folks that are liked by the forum members, but they have some culpability in not providing Prado what he needed. Saying Prado didn't know, only KTM had the secret sauce, suggests that Kawi can't get back to the Villopoto / Andersen days because somehow they just don't got it. 

When Vialle felt he was unsafe due to shock issues, the KTM mgmt team didn't go on social media and attack him for not giving enough. 

When Sexton crashed at Pala with weird goggle issues and again at Ironman with a (?) stuck front brake on his KTM, nobody at KTM came after him on socials.

As for the 100+ hour weeks, that feels like appropriate panic. Last year, lot's of great shots of Chase in Hawaii, meanwhile Kenny and Eli are at WSX. Howzabout going to some pre-season races on your new steed and being really ready for A1. Just a thought. 

Right or wrong, this whole thing has me wondering about the Factory Kawasaki racing program going back years.

Jason 'got sick' and bailed halfway thru the season. Prado's issues. Villopoto couldn't wait to retire. Eli has been clear about his struggles there, as did Weimer.

Could AC's pro career have been completely different if he rode another brand? I was bummed that injuries took him out early, but watching all of this happen makes me wonder if he may have avoided some of those if he was on another brand.

It's all hypothetical, but you never know.

Meanwhile, Kawasaki is world champ in 2025 !! 

Febvre won races in 2015 and 2023 on bent handlebars, it's the man not the bike. 

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Exactly. The bike has no chance of winning with a quitter on it. 

Is this slam poetry?

And Canadian!

marchbanks and Nicols really making Prado look slow in qualifying…

Prado should have started in 250s, to learn the ropes.

Yeah because qualifying fastest in the 450 group he’s clearly struggling lololol

Welcome back. 

Lol what a retard.

This is great. 

Nicols was really giving him fits in that heat race!!

I wonder what kind of bonus he gets for heat race wins. Probably low, but 3 heat wins out of 4 rounds has to start adding up

MXGP-champs, or in the past 250cc/500cc champs remember Seb Tortelli, Greg Albertyn... are excluded from riding Supercross in the regional 125cc - Lites and now 250cc class. This makes that after Tortelli, Albertyn now also Prado needed to jump straight away into supercross in the premiere class!

Which has been said by the media like a thousand times. 

"He should have started with the 250s" is clearly a pro SX fan signature.

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No crow shall be served till he stands atop the box at the end of the night. Now, Please sit down…….

He'll win. Can't say when, but if you can't see he has it in him already, then you aren't really looking. 

Why not require a 30 second gap to 2nd while you're at it? 

Not sure about the crow. He clearly quit on his team last year and Sexton has already won on his old teams bike.

I missed that , thank you! 

Oh yeah, I'm sooooo impressed how good Sexton is on the Kawi up till now. 

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At some point people are going to have to acknowledge what is staring them right in the face when it comes to Kawasaki. Sexton has one podium through 5 rounds 

Prado now beats Sexton straight up again, and in qualifying. Prado riding consistently better, Sexton consistently worse. Sexton was expected to dominate with Jett out.