MXGP World Champion Jorge Prado decided to try his hand at AMA Supercross. Partnering with the Troy Lee Designs/Red Bull/GASGAS Factory Racing Team, Prado will line up at A1 this weekend. The Spanish champ is also set to race at San Francisco and San Diego on his GASGAS MC 450F. Fresh from clinching the 2023 FIM Motocross World Championship in the MXGP category, which was a milestone achievement for both Prado and GASGAS, Jorge had expressed his lifelong dream of sampling the sport of Supercross – and potentially making a 450SX start! – in the United States.
“Since I started riding my dream has always been to one day race in the U.S., specifically to race Supercross,” claims Prado. “I have watched it my whole life on television and always thought it must be great to race under lights with a huge crowd! More specifically, it must be great to race at an iconic stadium like Angel Stadium. I was lucky enough in 2015, while training in the U.S., to go to Anaheim 1 – it was a great experience and made me want to try it even more. So given I won the MXGP title this year and am totally healthy and looking for a new challenge, I thought it was the perfect time in my career to come and train in the USA properly to prepare for a few Supercross races. I don’t want to waste another whole year wondering if I could or should, so I am here and I am going to try it out. I’m really looking forward to it and am lucky enough to have the full support of my Red Bull GASGAS Factory Racing Team back home with Claudio and Davide de Carli, and the Troy Lee Designs/Red Bull/GASGAS Factory Racing Team here in the USA behind me.”
“The main goal for Jorge in 2024 is to defend the world title he earned this past season, but of course we are excited to see what he can do on a Supercross track,” adds Roger De Coster, Director of Motorsports, North America. “We all know that he is very talented, given he’s already a multiple times Motocross World Champion, having won in MX2 and being the current MXGP Champion. However, we also know that Supercross at the highest level is extremely competitive and to race with the top here requires a lot of toughness besides talent, so this will be a huge challenge for him.”
Commemorating the occasion, the 2023 MXGP World Champion stars in the latest episode of GASGAS Dirt… see the video here:
