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Chase to star 2028
When does Webb retire?
Hopefully Kawi works out, but there are a few other pastures that could catch his wandering eye: Yamaha, Suzuki, Triumph, Ducati…
ET left Honda. He wasn't a factory Honda. So wouldn't you leave for a factory team. Stayed at Kawi until he thought his career was over. decided to give it a year or two on something fresh. Than was left without a ride.
Don't think you can compare
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Read my statement again...
"he won't be returning to any of his old teams"
That includes American Honda's AMA Pro Supercross and Motocross team, previously externally run by Geico Honda, now factory HRC.
He had his reasons for leaving each team, he won't be returning to any of his old teams.
It's cte
Hes acting like Antonio Brown. If this is correct, it'll keep getting worse imho. Hopefully not🤞i hear fingernail polish is toxic too
JS7 telling Chase to "tuck the front end son" during a broadcast was comedy gold.
How many top level riders return to their old teams?
CHAD REED I guess when he was way past his prime and the team was way different than when he rode there.
MCGRATH for his farewell tour I guess…
There’s someone else I’m forgetting. But it’s super rare so not much of a signn
To me, everything about Chase reads as symptomatic of CTE…
this sport needs to take CTE so much more seriously
Cooper Webb, A-mart
True Still rare, especially among the top riders.
Technically you could put dunge in there after his little affair with honda post retirement to then come back out of retirement back on KTM…
You have to remember that this is not a regular 9-5 work.
The guys that work on the teams becomes family and they work shitty hours and weekends alongside the riders. Yes, it's their own choice to do it, but you could at least show some appreaciation and leave them in a respectfull manner.
What would it hurt Chase to round up the guys at the last race, thank them for the help with his two Honda titles instead of storming out like a angry kid? and then going to a dinner with Lars and the other top guys, it would cost him a couple of hours of his time but would have been spoken of as a top guy.
A instagram post is not worth nearly as much as a thank you face to face and a handshake imo.
Yes it's rare, but spots on factory teams is also rare, and whle many riders seems to extend their contracts and then maybe do one team change late in their carrer to get a breath of fresh air, Chase seems to jump ship just as soon as his first contract period is up, and at that rate he might need to go back to one of them sooner or later.
I just don't see the reason for burning every bridge you walk over. It might come a day when your racing days is over and you want a job in the industry and those burnt bridges could hurt you.
You shouldn’t put this garbage out there, I would suggest deleting this post as you are not a doctor and that is a seriously huge jump to a conclusion that is wildly speculative.
Almost every other post here is just as wildly speculative about Chase’s intentions, attitude, appreciation, etc., while ignoring what could be CTE.
CTE is real, and we shouldn’t dismiss it just because it’s more comfortable to attack Chase’s character. The best (or worst) possible outcome from raising it is that Chase and the people around him take it seriously — he gets tested, and maybe he retires because of it. Personally, I’d prefer that over pretending it doesn’t exist.
Obviously, the best outcome would be that he gets tested — and he’s in the clear. Or that there’s a legitimate standardized testing.
There currently is not testing available to confirm CTE while the patient is breathing. Sooo…
There’s only so many bridges you can burn in this sport.
Heavy is the head that wears the crown. Once you are winning consistently you are on everyone's radar. 5-10 guys don't generate clicks.
Pit Row
Well there you go… damn.
I will say, I agree with you that CTE in our sport needs to be talked about due to the violent nature and extreme impacts to the head riders experience. But to say Chase’s behavior is indicative of it is a bit of a stretch IMO my man.
I don't know if CTE would be as common in MX as it is in football. From my understanding, CTE isn't necessarily caused by two or three bad bell-ringers like Chase has had, but rather, a large volume of softer hits to the head over the course of many years. This is why it is so common in the NFL - those guys (aside from kickers, punters, and most QBs) are sustaining impacts to their heads almost every game. That's hundreds, if not thousands, of impacts over the course of their careers, and that's not even counting practice reps.
Yes, I'm sure Chase has had a couple gnarly concussions, but I don't think his noggin is sustaining impacts on a regular basis.
Dave mirra… I think you’re underestimating the number of hits Chase has had, he’s had multiple sports center worthy crashes every year for 5 years now.
And possibly over estimating the path (ie soft hits repeatedly is the path) to CTE as if anyone knows enough about it to really simplify it that much.
Anyway it’s all conjecture but he has had a ton of bad hits regardless and we and him have been lucky he generally pops right back up ready to fight.
Exactly. And while I don’t know the details and all that of all the things, but there’s some parallels in performance and team behavior (to a lesser degree) between Stew and Chase…
and while CTE is permanent damage, their can be some healing from time off and I would hazard a guess that the few year Stew took away from the sport was massively beneficial to his brain health.
Carmichael's losing his train of though while commentating may be a sign of CTE.
Possibly, but losing your train of thought isn’t necessarily an indication of a debilitating neurological disease.
Carmichael just sucks at it. And it’s not cte he’s never been good at it. And the more polished he tries to become the worse he becomes as he’s pretending harder and harder to be likable with his phony giggles and phony excitement. He’s so fake it’s absolutely insane to listen to. It’s amazing someone who’s been riding and racing literally his entire life can’t just be authentic but it’s what he is.
Unfortunately there is not enough money in the sport or interest to fund any studies, riders would need to be tested at the start, the end and years after they finish careers to measure any cognitive changes.
We may never get there, not enough eyes watching to generate enough revenue for someone to potentially sue for in order for the governing body to act like they care. If you’re catching my drift.
Dude has multiple titles on multiple bikes in multiple classes. I think he wins on everything he rides. But he stills expects better, a quality of a champion.
How do you feel about Prado and Kawasaki?
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