Jeremy McGrath has not held back in his assessment on Jorge Prado and Kawasaki with the supercross king not happy with Prado’s comments about the team or the fact the Spaniard, in McGrath’s perspective, was not giving his all and trying to get fired.
McGrath said the following on the Jaxxon podcast:
“I don’t know a lot about this situation. I only have to go by as a fan. I hear a little bit of things here and there. And we could all see what was going on. It was painfully obvious that he was not trying. He was trying to get fired, whatever he was trying to do.
“Here’s the situation from being in this arena. Jorge Prado came from Europe. He came from a works bike works KTM, which means they can change anything they want on those bikes over there in Europe. They can change chassis. They can change any part, everything… We in America have a production rule. You have to use a standard chassis. You can put a lot of custom parts on the bike, which we see with the race guys. But the bikes are quite a bit different. Even if he went from Europe’s KTM, his race bike over there that he’s won with the last couple of years to Chase Sexton’s KTM this year. It’s going to be different. It’s a totally different bike.
“In my opinion, he came over here. He signed the contract. ‘Oh, the bike’s good.’ The bike’s good. There was no complaints when he was signing the deal. And then here we go on racing and you start to get your ass beat and then you got problems. And then you’re pointing the finger. First of all, I don’t like people that point the finger at someone else, right? You’re in charge of this. You signed it. Your team agreed, this was all okay. Let’s go racing. You’re a professional so figure it out – you have to handle it.
“To me, I don’t have to sugarcoat, it is bullsh*t the way he was treating Kawi – to disparage Kawi and Monster like that in on a world stage. You know, he really sold everyone on the fact that he could come over and kick everyone’s ass. We know the real story now.”
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