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Dylan Ferrandis and Valentin Guillod have both talked about the struggle of adjusting to American culture, but they don't let that struggle impact their racing. In Guillod's case he just flies back to Switzerland for a ham sandwich and then comes back to kick Prado's ass on a stock bike 😅

Yeah it'll be pretty funny IF Prado races mxdn. The way he's riding right now he'll get smoked by his MX2 teammate on team Spain I guess even if he finishes 25th for the remaining 6 motos Spain will still pick him. Although a team of Fernandez, Farres and Oliver might be almost better than having Prado just give up (same as he did on Sunday at mxon 24).

I don’t think it’s all the bike but I do think the bike is why he’s not trying. It’s like it’s reached a point where he’s hoping to just get out of the contract. He’s probably a 5th place guy at best with his current comfort level on the bike. Yet he doesn’t even want to go for that anymore. Mentally, he’s given up. I think even Phil has spent the whole outdoor season trying to make the bike faster. He obviously doesn’t have the same access as Prado does to parts. This video has aged well.

Six pages of people mostly mistaking opinions for facts. Fact is none of us here know what's really going on.

At some point he needs to take some personal accountability. Champions don’t blame their team they blame themselves. Look at Eli. He keeps his mouth shit when he’s not comfortable and he works it out. He takes responsibility every time he makes a mistake. He sits back while everyone speculates for 3 weeks about what’s wrong with him, he doesn’t blame anyone, says he’ll work harder and then voila, homeboy shows up and is back at race pace looking like an animal again and lets everyone know that he chose the wrong settings and even appologizes to his team for...

I can't even watch todays race (fast- forward the stream) its just a dead boring atmosphere. The lack of riders -fans and shit track kills the whole vibe , that motocross essence is gone. what a difference watching spring creek and this shit, but hey loungos cashed in and that's what matters.

..you summed it up great....meanwhile Spring Creek was King.

That bike didn’t look good at all even when Prado was leading , his entry speed in to corners looks miles of compared to the gasgas

I stopped by the Triumph tent and asked...yes, he had a big crash and broke his back. Good news, he still has all his mobility and feeling, no issues there, but he needed surgery.

Imo... the only way for him to be This slow... unless there is an injury we don't know about, it has to be 100 percent mental... I remember my freshman yr in college... had been stoked for years to get there... but, once there, I hated it... every bit of it.. the town.. the college... the food... the music, All of it!!... Prado is riding like he hates it... all of it...

Prado’s only a few races into changing continents and it’s not going well, yet. Vialle came to race SX and has two championships in three years. Who’s the etc? Paturel who’s doing better than in MXGP? Or maybe the Lawrences who came via Europe? They seem to have settled in okay after a year or two, no? These MXGP vs AMA arguments are lame. Hell Australia won MXdN last year with a rider who doesn’t race either series. Does that mean the Aussie series is superior? Of course not. Enjoy the racing!

Agreed. But that's why everyone is freaking out about his results. There is no possible reason why Paturel should beat him. He had less time on the Suzuki. Has to adjust to all the same things. And he's riding a damn Suzuki.

Dropped from 2:08 to 2:11 to 2:15 to 2:22.

It’s unfortunate that Steve is the current standard in moto media. It come across so clearly in everything that he says and does that he is a man very uncomfortable with himself. I wish him the best as it must be a rough life to lead.

Some people/media going crazy about the question from Hopper shows exactly what is so weird and wrong in our sport.. Why must everything in our sport be kept so secretive? Riders swapping teams, injuries, salaries etc. All this kind of stuff is literally normal public information in most of the other sports these days. Also moto media constantly going at each other is funny as shit, not gonna lie. 😂 I really appreciate media people in our sport leaving their comfort zone and asking questions others are afraid to ask.

So probably a question 95% of vitards want answered going by the silly season threads. Pretty sure you can ask anything. If a rider chooses not to answer thats ok. Funny how the media get slated for not having the balls to ask hard questions. Then obviously one has & people are jumping him