We all have to hand it to Jorge Prado, for making the big step to America and chasing his dreams, but that dream, even for somebody with the talent of Prado is a BIG dream and much harder to achieve if you are not a teenager with supercross experience.

Listen all young Grand Prix riders, going to race supercross isn’t easy and when you see our MXGP World champion finishing in 14th place in the main event, well, that isn’t something to aspire to.

Sure, he is new at the game and if anyone can do it, Prado can, because he is one of the most talented riders the sport has seen, not just in this era, but supercross, man, it’s a bone braker. In the off-season, as we reported back a month or two ago, he broke bones on the practice track, which was denied, then he eventually came out and mentioned he actually broke bones and hit his head pretty hard. It means not a lot of time to prepare for A1, and as I said, Prado is one of the most talented riders ever, so hopefully, he will work it out. We are all supporting him here from Europe.

Now, we all know the stories of Greg Albertyn, Sebastien Tortelli, Dean Ferris and so many other GP riders who have in USA and it is no surprise, only J. M. Bayle has been able to master supercross to the point of winning titles.

Multiple AMA main event winner, David Vuillemin, and former Yamaha factory rider in the RC, Stewart, Reed era was not impressed with Prado’s performance and said so on the PulpMX show. Steve Matthes owner of the show agreed and both were pretty critical of the Spaniard.

“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.”