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After a fifth overall and showing some good speed for the first half of the races, Jorge Prado says that it was like riding a different bike at Ironman after the team tried some new settings on the bike before first practice \u2013 and they worked!<\/p>\n
A little bit of hit and hope but this time it worked for the finally positive Spaniard as he told Lewis Phillips: <\/p>\n
\u201cWe found some stuff before practice, before first practice today, and it actually changed\u00a0the bike a lot. So, it was something totally different from what I was running, and it helped a lot to\u00a0respond to the engine and stuff, and the feeling of the frame.\u00a0So, yeah, it was, I don\u2019t know, just racing with a completely different bike today.\u00a0And we made some, you know, good time practice before, very close to pole compared to other\u00a0times.\u201c<\/p>\n
\u201cI was just bottoming everywhere, also because\u00a0I was running, what, a couple of seconds faster than my last weekends?\u00a0So, going at higher speed, you need a bit more of a stiffer bike, and now I was just\u00a0bottoming everywhere.\u00a0So, I was just, you know, couldn\u2019t really push 100% into braking, or couldn\u2019t really\u00a0attack some sections of the track, but I\u2019m happy.\u201c<\/p>\n
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Of course the rumour is Prado could literally be riding a different bike in 2026, with KTM reportedly offerrong a bonus only contract for 2026 alongside Aaron Plessinger and rumoured new signing, Eli Tomac.<\/p>\n
Vital\u2019s Micheal Lindsay said on X: \u201cLike Prado having the option to go to KTM on a bonus only deal if he can get out of his Kawasaki contract. According to Kawi sources, he hasn\u2019t asked to get out yet but they\u2019re aware that the KTM conversation has happened\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n
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But will the setting changes give Prado hope that he can finally find what he needs to show his true potential on the Kawasaki?<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Facebook Twitter WhatsApp Messenger Email After a fifth overall and showing some good speed for the first half…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60877,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-60876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-cycling","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}