Prado being a native spanish speaker is kinda flying under the radar in the grand scheme, but this is actually huge imo. Spanish is the US’s second most spoken language, and outside of a few north american/carribean countries and brazil, spanish is widely spoken throughout the americas and world. There are 488 million native spanish speakers and most of them are in the americas. This combined with smx’s new spanish language broadcast could set fire to a whole new fanbase.
In china basketball is the most popular major sport. This is due to yao ming and others coming to the nba to play and representing chinese ppl and speakers. It cant be stated enough how big of an impact it had on china falling in love with basketball. Obviously this is not on that level, but this is the first time that a spanish guy is one of the top of the spear in mx/sx.
Feld needs to interview him in spanish AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE! Get that content out there into the spanish speaking world. They are very passionate fans and this could be another massive boost to the sport.
Yo hablo espanol, estudie en la esquela para cinqo anos cuando joven. Castillion dialect de central Espana. Muchos anos pasado.
He seems really nice too.
He looked so comfortable and flowy at press day. I think he’s gonna shock the world right away in supercross. I have him finishing 5th after a holeshot.
Hoping that he consistently stays in the top 5 fray, stays healthy, and becomes a force to be reckoned with outdoors.
The more international racers, the better.
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Very good point.
If FELD want to ‘sell’ Monster energy supercross to a much bigger audience, expect more foreign riders to get rides.
Kind of makes it obvious why there are so many open-air stadiums, no dragon backs, and only nine woops too, doesn't it? The USA has literally most of the field, many of them training for fifteen years, for tracks with more than nine woops and with dragon backs. Now Feld is concerned with "safety" on a Supercross track. Hate to say some riders get some pretty serious injuries at Peoria's TT even.
100%. I'm in Latin America a lot for business and anytime I meet moto guys they are fans of Spanish speaking riders. Even in the GPs they mostly follow Prado, Fernandez, etc. Farres riding for Star was a huge deal for them too
Vital users: “I hate ‘death-cross’ the tracks need to be safer to protect our athletes”
Also vital users: “bring back more whoops and difficult obstacles!!”
Make your minds up fellas..🤷♀️🤦🏻
For sure. Latin America goes hard. Enzo Lopes is from Brazil and speaks portugese, but he has one of the biggest fan bases in the sport. Matthes is always talking about how any time he even mentions Enzo in any capacity he gets tweets, comments like crazy from all the Brazilians who overwhelm the comment sections with love for enzo.
That's a good point. They've definitely promoted their Spanish broadcast. It's good timing. Maybe that's why Monster pushed so hard to get Jorge.
He was the technique guy in Europe for years. Lightning sprint speed out the gate with great starts and a very smooth riding style. Struggled in 2nd motos in the big class at times, I honestly think he's a natural supercross guy
At Peoria we may be going a little faster than a sx, I know before they jacked it up. I used to hit the jump at around 80 on my 600 Rotax. But yes, It hurts like an Mf'er to crash there/😎
A track being safe and challenging is not exclusive of one another.
My point was you can get hurt on a scooter no matter how smooth the track.
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