Sexton MX vs SX: What went wrong?

His forks are too stiff. Allows him to go that much faster than everyone else but can bite you if you're not heavily weighted on the front wheel at all times in corners. Soften them up and he won't lose his front wheel as much but also won't have as fast lap times, pick your poison. Bubbalicious knows a little something about that. 

I disagree only because these "silly" crashes seem to only happen when he is leading and has been for a while with a good lead.  The exception would be Indy and that was also a mental lapse up the face of that jump.  He appears to lose focus or his mind wanders to something else.

With the exception of Indy, haven't all the rest been front end washing? I'd argue the mental lapse is getting comfortable in the lead and forgetting how light his front end grip is, I could be wrong.

I feel like his riding style/technique favors the open style of an MX track more than the tight corners and areas of an SX track

I feel alot has to do with his body position riding too far over the front of the bike and it catches him unsuspectingly and he can't correct it fast enough. Maybe the stiff forks and chassis has something to do with it too... 

I'm of the opinion that its a bike thing. The Honda is a front end steering bike, it feels so good to get over the front and it is rewarding but it can bite you. 

Day time vs. Night time racing? Grew up riding in SoCal in the 70's and attempting to race (never serious or any good) under the lights in the early days was a huge difference. Now, going on Medicare this week, my routine is really set by my body clock and I can't imagine any type of physical activity requiring maximum mental toughness and concentration at 9:00 pm. Body shuts down hours before that and 9:00 pm is usually lights out 

Im slow so take this lightly. He really does appear to be looking at his front fender all the time. At least from his helmet position.

speed and control are often opposing variables.

He’s doing the same thing he did In outdoors last year.  When the pressure is on, he crashes…a lot.  That one race late in the outdoors, I forget what round, he flipped over the bars on the first lap by himself. Then at Pala, same thing.  Whatever he’s doing he needs to change things up because clearly the talent is there, but he makes mental mistakes under pressure. 

He’s mentally weak, which he will hopefully improve in time.

He ran out of Adderall 

My theory is that I duno lol. I can’t even fathom riding like that when he’s on. I’m sure shit happens a lot faster than you’d expect. 

Nothing went wrong. These are the same results he's always had in SX if you exclude his 250 championship year.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5_GaKdqV3Q

i think sexton has some head issues but this crash from argentina looks awfully familiar... 

i have no knowledge of different brands being more prone to weird instability but someone with more knowledge respond to this lol 

edit. the reason i even bring up the bike is because this dude has crashed at like 8 out of 11 rounds this year and almost busted his ass the other 3. that is ridiculous. 

Phill spoke about it on Pulp MX today.

As he said, its weird, because he rides with the same style as Lawrence brothers. who are also on similar bikes and we hardly see them lose the front. Yes 450 and 250 are different. But not completely to this point.

It very well could be the bike on how he sets it up as mentioned above.

Could be the Stewart case of just loses focus when he doesn't have some one near him to push and keep him focus.

Keen to see Jett in 450 SX to see if he has a similar problem to sexton with the bike or if its purely Sexton in supercross.

The guy has to learn to back down in a controllable way. That's really the key difference between your Ezra Lusk's (not knocking Yogi, I was a huge Ezra fan) and your Jeremy McGraths. The latter have, say, a 10-15% range that they can operate in depending on the situation - more for when the situation calls for it, less when it doesn't etc. But they have that control. Chase is as fast as greased lightening but he needs to change as the track does. 

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Bike; more specifically, the Showa BFRC shock. While proven outdoors, both in MXGP and last years outdoor campaign, I believe this is the first year it's been used so extensively in SX. Out of the four riders to start SX on it (AC9, JA21, CS23, CN45), pretty sure only Sexton is currently running it...

That being said, even with self-induced mistakes, he's the only racer left besides points leaders within one race in the series standings; not a bad year so far and there's lots of racing left. Without the 7-point penalty, he'd be an even bigger dark horse for those top-two. 

the problem is his right hand and throttle combo. 
 

Sexton is going too fast. If you are going so fast you crash 95% of the time then you simply are riding out of control and tempting fate. Sooner or later fate gets you. Trouble for Sexton is if he slows down then Tomac gets him. I’ve heard it said on the broadcast Sexton has been the fastest. If you crash 95% of the time while leading are you really the fastest or are you the wildest?  
 

if Sexton tries to push it like this outdoors he will experience a season ending yard sell for the ages. 
 

He shouldn’t test fate and ride within his capabilities even if it means 2nd place, and it will. 

Wow lots of “experts” in here, surprised Honda hasn’t hired you guys.. 

If you dont want people discussing and speculating, close the forum down.

Every rider is going to sway towards being better at one discipline vs. the other.  I don't find it odd at all that Chase struggles in SX but is fairly dominant in MX.  It's more common than not when you start thinking about many past riders.  So I don't think anything is wrong.  This is a very competitive sport and there can be only one winner.   

Did you watch outdoors last year?

Yes I did. But Sexton is pushing even harder this year and way beyond controllability. I’m calling it now. If he pushes this hard outdoors trying to stay ahead of Tomac then he won’t finish the series. 

He lost the MX championship with crashes so what are we comparing? 

Pretty sure he crashed away the motocross championship and is doing the same in Supercross. Not really a what went wrong. More of a same ole Sexton

He made the same mistakes outdoors last year as well. If he didn’t, he would have been the champion. Every time he was in a must win situation. He started making mistakes. He rides on the ragged edge. It’s great when it works. But unfortunately that is not very often.

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