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So while quitting he’s beating guys with 15 years more sx experience than him, got it. And while quitting finished 6th overall in Mx last year. Rest of the field sounds like a bunch of losers comparatively if such a trash quitter is beating them so handily? Maybe the truth is somewhere between the extremes…

Embarrassing crashout you’re having in here. Also pretty lame you counted his dnf this weekend. After last weekend he was 7th and 2 points out of 6th. Just say you hate the guy and get it over with.

Mate, I'm not even a Prado fan but that's not telling the full story. That's including his DNS due to injury in Seattle. Prior, he was actually 7th in points, tied in points with a 450 SX Champion, Jason Anderson. And other than maybe Justin Cooper being 2 points ahead at the time(a 250 SX Champ in his own right), which one of the guys ahead of him would you expect him to be doing better than? Sexton? Roczen? Webb? Hunter? Eli? C'mon man. Give him credit where credit is due. It's an incredibly stacked field and he has multiple...

I know it’s only qualifying and heat races but Prado has exceeded my expectations by leaps and bounds this season. He has the pace to be a SX winner once he gets the confidence to hold onto it for 20 mins … I hope he gets a win sometime next season in SX and hopefully one or two this summer

Are you serious? Did you see his crash? It was a gnarly impact to the same shoulder he's injured multiple times prior. He out qualified the entire 450 class. Twice. That's arguably insane considering his experience level and where he was last year.

at what point do we call him a "quitter"?

So the fact that Prado did do that should tell you everything you need to know. Nobody wants to walk away from that kind of money, but if things are bad enough, money isn’t everything

He’s already sitting on 8 figures in the bank, he’d ride for no money to prove he’s one of the world’s elite.

What’s dumb about that if your life isn’t money oriented? That was commendable to say no to all of that money for something he believed should be better

He wont stay for 3 seasons, he will do 2 years and get out. We will see him on Yamaha, Triumph, Suzuki or Ducati @A1 2028

Nah he doesn't walk out on contracts, he just gets mystery illnesses one race into the series and then misses half the races while the team insists he isn't injured.

Guys, before you call Prado a quitter again. That is the same shoulder he injured in MXGP already and then re-injured last year again at the third SX round where he was out for months. It was a complicated one and he still has hardware in it. If he feels something is off it's probably a smart idea to skip the race and get it fully checked

Unpopular opinion. Prado's goal is to just get as much SX experience as he can and get through the season. Honestly if he's gonna roll around and be a liability to himself and others on the track from injury. Probably best to call it for the night and push on into next week. I can give props and respect to riders pushing through injury, but also can't hate on those who elect to protect their body.

I mean, it's better than Ricky, but i don't know what they're saying.

Maybe Kawi quit on him first? Bike is a piece of doodoo. Sexton ain't looking too good.

Nicols and marchbanks were all over Prado , they almost matched his roll lap.

In all fairness, they quit on each other.

If Prado holeshots, the field is fucked. He looks like he could go even faster than his hot lap.

But he's a QuITtErrRr 😭

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