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Come on James you're smarter than that right.
The front tire on sextons bike was locked causing the bike to go sideways off the face and in the air. Stop the BS!!
Man I don't understand why honesty is so taboo in our sport.
If the front wheel had not been stopped in the air I might have thought the crash locked it up.
Yea the wheel got bound up going up the face that’s why the rear end started to come around in the air
Sexton rarely disappoints.
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How tough is chase? He dropped from 30 feet in the air and landed directly on his right ankle while bashing his chin off the handlebar… and he was already getting back up before he even was done crashing. It blows my mind the crashes this guy just gets up from. Hes built like a brick shit house.
They would have been stretchering me off the track with a compound fracture in my leg if that was me. Idk how he does it. There definitely is something to having more muscle mass and weight in the 450 class, it really protects the body from damage, sexton is living proof. Remember that crash he had in the rhythm section in sx where he slammed into the face of a jump in a rhythm section first lap and was perfectly fine? Crazy shit.
Ankle, chin and you forgot about the family jewels. And he didn't hesitate to catch his breath to get back to the bike to try and keep going. He's a fighter that's for sure
Jokes aside, times where I've done something similar, I've surprisingly not really hurt my balls lol. Idk how that's possible. It's like they, thankfully, get out of the way before impact.
He’s our TG243
Title is a runaway, but that was a seriously entertaining day with all sorts of surprises around every corner (literally).
Agreed, thought James was over being biased against chase. Crash seemed like a result from bike issues. Maybe even a throttle issue too with how it looped out picking it up, no way he just lets it loop out like that.
That's kinda what I thought too, obviously the front brake was jammed on but the way it spun out of his hands twice after he started it was weird looking. And that wouldn't be the first time the KTM throttle has got stuck at WFO for Chase
Yes 100%! The exact opposite of Prado. No matter what, he rides his ass off. Kinda old school. I really hope he goes to Kawasaki, and they let Prado go to KTMi!!
Yeah he did say that and I thought the same thing. But didn't he correct it later and say it was the reason he crashed? I'm not sure, but I thought he did.
Chase going to Kawasaki is a disaster waiting to happen.
He fell on the brake/throttle before the big one. I wonder if something got jacked then that caused the lock up and wreck.
Right, he knows better. Saying "he would have endo'd if the front locked up on the face" (or something along those lines.)
Um, no it wouldn't. It would actually behave exactly how we seen. The front wheel stops and your front end floats away from you. What is he talking about?
Looked like an extremely bent rotor to me. Something bent it going up the face. Thats why we seen it locking with each rotation, then freeing up, then locking.
Wrong call by James on this one.
Definitely agree that something happened to the front wheel to have it locked up in the air. Even if you slip out like james said the wheel would be at least spinning a little bit even if slowly. It was completely stopped. Thats just not something that you dont ever see.
As far as the throttle being wide open that probably happened due to the crash, not caused it, tho he launched pretty far.
Yea bro tiga is a beast. Ill never forget his crash at mantova, literally jumped out of the frame of the camera doug henry style and came down like a sack of hammers straight to limp dead body on the track. I thought he died. Guy is a savage.
Pretty sure that one was a stuck throttle right?
The front was locked up when Chase landed. Even with how out of shape he was, if it wasn't a mechanical and just rider error, it would not have immediately been locked on landing like that. Bike issue from what I see.
It looks so unnatural off the takeoff. No way is he grabbing front brake off the face of that. And you see him lunge forward and try to correct mid air. I love James but there is not a giant hole there like he said there was.
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Hunter proud as f for his first win
My guess: the front axle came loose or bent on the G-out hitting that jump
Or "electrical issue"
How many times did you go back and watch the replay while James probably only got 1 while trying to call a race?
When I was “good” I raced 450s at a very solid 185 and almost never got hurt. I think the mass protected me even on the big hits. Now I’m old and I can blow out my back getting out of bed.
Chase has a lot more "beef" than most guys out there. I think that's a good thing.
I think these guys are being too hard on James. 100%
It's too bad Chase was so far away from the mechanics area. Otherwise he could have pulled in and got the brake unlocked and continued on to an overall win.
It seemed pretty obvious that something happened to the front wheel leading up the face of the jump and in the air. It was odd on James to just dismiss it.
He will be right where he's at right now.... at the front! He's been on aluminum framed bikes for 95% of his career and he knows the set up! Prado is the opposite with zero heart!
James had to make that call in real time, live on the air. Maybe this time he missed it, but he's almost always correct and he points out things I didn't see most of the time.
Unlike someone else who often plays analyst.
I know Chase was cussing that bike. He’s ready for his new green ride.
If his front wheel locked up on the face of the jump, the front wheel wouldn't have been so high in the air.
Most likely his throttle stuck, causing the bike to get out of shape, and the front wheel being so high while in the air.
Most likely, Chase applied both brakes in the air, while attempting to bring the front wheel down.
The front wheel may have gotten tweaked during the landing, but how the bike was behaving when he was trying to get going, it seemed more like a stuck throttle, than a problem with the front wheel.
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