Has Sexton now learned……

We can spin it all the way we want. If some riders had raced to their best abilities Sexton would probably have been champion to.

This title just left a sour taste in my mouth looking at riders sacrifice their own results just so another one could become champion.

Webb shines in the endgame, but his situation is different. Sexton has spent his entire career catching flak—he “walked into” his 250 titles (just like Vialle now). People say he got lucky or inherited them, but he earned every single one. Naturally, he’s got a chip on his shoulder: he wants to win races and capture the championship to prove he’s “the guy,” so his mindset isn’t the same as Cooper’s.

Cooper, meanwhile, often flies under the radar—he seldom looks like a threat in the preseason, yet everyone still lauds his clutch finishes, late-race heroics, and knack for closing out championships cause thats what Cooper Webb does. 

But everyone thinks Chase is a title threat from the git go, despite him "walking into every tile 250 and 450". So yeah Chase wanted to dominate and prove a point cause he's tired probably of that story. Webb doesnt have that chip, hes overlooked but no one discounts his titles, he gets praised.  Which he should be. This isnt an anti-coop, im a Coop guy till I die since "French dont want none". 

But you gotta think why chase makes the decisions he did. 

Coulda, woulda, shoulda, didn’t. 

He has speed though.  “We can work with speed.”

I think he's learned that he rides better when he's not so hard on himself. 

I’d argue this was Sextons best SX season yet

Sexton learned he cant count on Plessinger to help a brother out, 1st to like 7th in a few laps so no help for Sexton

So he just dropped anchor? I wasnt watching the race for a minute and all of the sudden AP was in 7th. I assumed he crashed

I think he was trying to run interference for Sexton and in doing so he just slowed himself and couldn't pick it back up. 

Chase goes fast, real fast, really really fast, Shit can happen at that pace. 

More like to 1st to 7th in a few jumps. Surprising, especially after the heat performance.

I was trying to catch a glimpse of him on the screen to see if he was dragging a cinder block behind him.

Holy shit, i forgot he won the heat. Beat Malcolm too. Then we saw Malcolm in the main. Hmm............yeah

I know Sexton shot himself in the foot at a few rounds (most notably Arlington), but this championship wasn't totally lost due to dumb mistakes. He had a great season overall... 7 wins is no joke. I think the recent rounds have made us forget that Webb went on kind of an insane run during the middle part of the season. From Tampa to Seattle, Webb was straight-up fast as hell. He waxed the field at Indy, and had a super gritty, straight-up win against Sexton at Seattle, among other strong races. 

Yes, Sexton was the fastest guy more rounds than not, but Webb wasn't just mailing in boring podiums all season. He ran a hell of a season, and so did Sexton. 

Chase Sexton is a class act so glad he made it through the meat grinder it's a bummer SX took out 2 more the last race. Davies and Smith hope they heal up. Bring on the Outdoors! How many got hurt in SX this year? Way too many, when they went over the injury list I was cringing and turned volume off so my wife wouldn't hear.

Sexton didn't lose it in Arlington, Webb won it in Foxborough.

Chase didn't loose the Championship at SLC. He lost it at Tampa, Daytona, Arlington & Foxborough. Better choices at any of those races and he's your 2025 Champion. 

Tampa? Didn't he straight up lose that to Malcolm and then just took time to get back up to speed?

He crashed in the whoops once Malcolm started pressuring him. It could be looked at as just a racing incident, crashes happen, but one could also argue that he tried upping his intensity to maintain 1st place on a track that was too technical for that kind of ragged-edge riding, unless you were really feeling it (which I think Malcolm was the only rider with that kind of flow that night). Someone like Webb might've lowered the pace, let Malcolm go by, and settled for 2nd, but Sexton wrecked trying to get the win and finished off the podium.

His best season yet, and he had to race Cooper Webb riding like prime Ryan Dungey. Hell of a championship considering so many injuries. SLC was a memorable one for the 250 guys and the 450 class. Coop just made it look easy because that's what a 3x sx champ does. He was wildy close to being 5x champ barring 2 race mishaps. On to the TGO where we can watch the 4 let it loose. 

I learned it's a good thing for deegs to take out his own teammate one race early for a championship..... but NOT ok for chase to punt webb for a 450 title

“We can work with speed” kind of cracks me up. You can be the fastest guy at the track everyday, but if you don’t have the racecraft it won’t matter. Managing a championship isn’t necessarily all about speed. Yes most races Chase had Coop covered on speed but I don’t think Chase ever had him covered on race IQ. 

Show us on the doll where Deegan hurt you. The thread is about Chase

Couldn’t agree more with this comment.💯👍🏻