It is a story we have heard so many times before and one we hear again, a GP rider trying to race supercross and getting hurt. It happened to Albertyn, Tortelli, Townley, Roczen and so many more and despite his huge talent, maybe more than any other riders from the GP's, who has headed to USA, apart from maybe J. M. Bayle, Jorge Prado has been crashing on a regular basis and you have to wonder if he ever gets the supercross thing sorted. We sure hope so, but for now, the American media channel for SMX, are sure his crash last weekend was a huge misstep.

Prado of the Kawasaki factory team, will be sidelined for some time, as he mentioned here below.

"Bad news. Surgery is needed to fix my shoulder and I will be out for the rest of the Supercross season. Time of rehab is unknown and hopefully I can make it to the start of outdoors. I will be back strong like I always do”

Former GP and AMA winner, David Vuillemin was very critical of Prado earlier this month and feels the four time World champion just isn't a supercross rider and mentioned on the Pulpmx show what he thought of the Spaniards performances in Supercross.

“The thing is," Vuillemin said. "If I had done this as a factory rider, I would get bashed in the French press, I was horrible, I got passed, but its 2025 and everything that is new is better and we build this guys up (Matthes said he didn’t feel Prado was that good and Vuillemin finished his comment), he’s not, a factory guy, you are a factory 450 guy, you are not allowed to jump the whoops. There are nine whoops now, just go for it. Obviously A1 it was faster to blitz the whoops, but you are a supercross rider now and they skim whoops, we are not doing this shit. Stop doing podcasts with people and practice in the whoops.

“When you do a podcast somewhere, it’s a day not riding, right. The industry, the fans, they don’t appreciate Vince Friese going left to right and blocking people and that is exactly what Prado did this weekend. He messed up Justin Coopers race (Matthes mentioned Prado almost took Cooper Webb out too). If Justin Cooper was left, he would go left, if he went right, Prado went right (Matthes again mentioned he is famous for that in GP). I watched the race in the Ducati truck with Cairoli, and he said welcome to Prado’s World, which isn’t (exactly) what he said, but he said he does it all the time.

“It’s dangerous (what he does). His race was a Vince Friese race, start in the front and crash and finish outside the top ten. What he did to Hunter Lawrence at the Nations, where he crossed jumped him, at the take-off from the quad, he goes right in front of Hunter and that was dangerous. If you don’t have the level and the skills to stay in front, don’t ride like that, this sport is already dangerous.”