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Speculation before an official PR is maybe unfair but, ah hell with it, Chase is a quiter
Jett is Chases kryptonite. Didn’t the same shit happen after he won the 450 SX title and Jett moved up to the 450 class? Chase crashed during the week and was out till Red Bud?
Interesting take by BT and JT on the latest Live Motocross podcast regarding Chase’s mental fortitude.
Also on the AC/JB podcast they were both adamant that Chase didn’t hit a false neutral but landed with his foot on the brake.
I'd agree with the rear brake being the culprit. I've hit false neutral on a road course and motocross track. While I do remember losing momentum, I do no recall it being as abrupt as what I saw on the broadcast. On the motocross track, it caused the rear end to unload and the front end to drop into the whoops with the quickness. Shattered wrist with plates and screws and I'm glad that I can still play the guitar. 😂
On the rear brake deal, it appeared as if he was more on the heel of his foot rather than the balls at the time. I'd assume that depending on how hard you land, it could cause your boot to roll down on the brake pedal as your body moves forward. I guess the good thing is that Lewis Phillips will get Chase to explain exactly what happened.
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Its really sad, most stacked season in a long time, just cut short in the first moto!! Hope he is all right!
Chase to Jett/Eli:
My first thought was his crash didn’t look that bad as it happened and was stunned he didn’t get goggles and continue racing. Even more stunned when he didn’t race that second moto. In my mind Sexton is a tough mofo who will race if able to.
But the more I see the crash. He does his the ground hard with his arm extended in an awkward position. Hunter did his shoulder off a softer hit than that. Jett and Tomac both got injured without crashing. The human body can be very fragile when hit the wrong way. So its unfair to judge Chase for being out when he did crash pretty hard and we don’t know just how bad the damage was. Chase wouldn’t sit out races by choice IMO.
Dude of every rider in the pits Sexton has the most asterisks of all.
Look at my downvotes 😅
How bad a crash looks is not a positive correlation to how bad the injury is.
Fully backing this. It’s what I said back on page 1. The way he fell is more likely to cause a labrum tear or rotator cuff injury then anything else.
the thing thts going unnoticed with this whole chase fiasco, coop real live boutta take full possession of the #1 seed for the monster cup races unless he gets hurt & exist the series
Yep. Jimmy Button’s crash wasn’t that bad from what people have said. Only takes falling the wrong way to do damage.
Definitely. For example Herlings tips over and breaks his collarbone, Seewer flies 50 yards through the air and doesn't have a scratch. 😅
2024 Hangtown Chase is "the best we have seen" IMO, such a bummer we wont get to see him ride this weekend, after last years incredible performance...
haha I also thought of MXGP. From Tim Gajser's collarbone break to Sascha Coenon flying over a massive jump at southwick (and france and so on lol) unharmed
You have to get up in the 1st place. Try to use your brain. You get up more times then you fall because you always get back up. You have to get on the horse to fall off of it!
I always think of Seewer as "gumby" because he would crash at high speed, get back up and no problems. Herlings on the other hand has had some low speed crashes that seem survivable but somehow something is broken. You never know.
2 days out zero press release or post from sexton… imagine being a fan just ghosted.
Hope he leaves KTM.
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i am of the belief that Sexton just quit on KTM. I said in another thread that Jett and Eli have him beat mentally. Facts are.. hes never been the fastest guy in a full field. The fastest have all crashed all the way back to Forkner.
Chase will never beat Jett straight up for a title. Sorry to say it. There are plenty of them throughout history that never beat the current "dude". Look at all the title would have's had it not been for RC.
This isnt some Chase bashing reply either. The dude is amazing. But so was CR when he was on. Some guys just have to deal with generational talents and thats where Chase is right now
It isn't KTM. Did you blame the Honda too when he was doing much of the same there.
Swap Moto Live injury report says Sexton and not ridden this week and may be out for Hangtown.
The amount of disrespect people have calling Chase a quitter is unbelievable, how many times has this guy had crashes that would put most of us in the hospital for a month only to get back on the bike and finish out the event? People can pick apart the crash all they want but just coming out of left field and claiming someone is a quitter with zero evidence to back it up is next level idiocy.
How do you get "not the fastest" from a season of nonstop fastest qualifier, fastest lap, and most race wins? His SX championship year you can absolutely make the case that he just threw it away too much to beat Eli/Coop for points before the injuries, but he was definitely the fastest guy that year. And arguably the fastest this SX season, just threw it away too many times, once again .
lol why? You do know that all sports have speculation? All sports have guys that quit on their teams. You think moto is any different? You talk about having facts but no one in here has facts on how Chase truly feels about KTM. What if something happened behind the scenes that pissed Chase off? No one really knows. Some of you act like these dudes are your best friends and saying he quit is idiotic. Is it popular? no. Is it possible? yes. Funny how an alternate opinion from the masses must mean its "idiotic"
Are you talking about this year where he had all of those fastest qualy's? This year? Where Jett, Hunter and Eli weren't there? Yea i would put this year into that category.
this wht happens when the sport & the media is hush hush about injuries , to the fan point of view of chase situation it look , “look” he quit by not lining up for moto 2 , when u literally just seen early this yr Eli rode a whole race with a broken leg & we go on the list of riders still racing with a crazy injury
Has very little to do with that and everything to do with Chases past. His front tuck reputation, his constant complaining about the bike, his hair brained decision making whenever Jett Lawrence is on the gate, etc. It’s not even a fan thing go listen to JT and Townley talk about how mentally weak chase is. You can disagree all day long whether he quit or not at pala but you can’t disagree that he has the mentality of a quitter. I’ll even go as far to say hurt or not he crashed on purpose, never in my life have I or saw someone accidently stomp their rear break landing on a 20 foot tabletop.
Crashed on purpose, now we’ve heard it all.
whether or not u think he crashed on purpose or not thts up to u as a individual viewer , my thing is if he quit or didn’t quit , u cant or I should say “I” cant blame a person point of view saying he quit just the fact of how the sport operates with shit like this & wht he may or may not injure 🤷🏾♂️ but I’m saying in this in the lens of moto is just different from others , if chase was a boxer , his career would be over cause the fans & media will never let go of this but moto fans overall is way way more forgiving
That moto would’ve never happened if Jett hadn’t MC’d ‘96 his way outta the title.
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