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41% of the season is done by now and he is on pace to score 2.42 wins/podiums in a 17 round series. Lets round it off in his favor, he is on pace to score 3 podiums/wins this season. Those numbers are crazy.
Pretty rough to see arguably the most talented guy on the track with Jett out (sorry Eli and Ken) at this point in his career tucking the front or riding around in 7th most of the time for years now. What a bummer.
I also first thought Harrison was coming from the mechanics area when I saw it on RDL but when they showed the replay of it during the night show it showed Harrison didn’t come from the mechanics area, he was just rolling slow on the track.
Makes you wonder if AC’s career would have gone a little differently had he went to another brand.
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I went looking for the clip you're describing and couldn't find it, but I re-watched the clip on social media and if that's the case it makes even less sense and is still on Harrison because he should've either been on the very top of the berm, or preferably the very inside, not rolling around at 3mph halfway up the bowl corner where's he's blocking the entrance of all the ruts with his bike that is travelling perpendicular to the track
People say this but I don't think it would've. He was always a crasher
Yeah, better say sorry to Hunter too
He’s finished behind and is just 10 points ahead of Justin Cooper, who similarly had several bad races and a podium. But Justin was neither a recent SX champ or runner up last year. I don’t know how you can couch it as anything but a disaster.
A bad start is a bad start but it's the lack of forward progress and just reaching a point where he's stuck (far too early) that's concerning.
There's something happening (sometimes) between practice and the evening races. He at times looks very good in practice but then as soon as the track inevitably starts going away then so does whatever setting Chase and Kawasaki think they've found in week...
Whether it be Prado, Hunter, Chase etc we all (unless you're insane) want him to do well and be up there where he belongs. As fans we can only benefit from that.
There was also the time at washougal (I think) where he did an entire extra lap racing because he didn’t see the checkered flag.
Put your helmet on, tilt your head forward and look ahead. Then, put your head straight and look ahead.
Even if what Chase is saying is true about him looking up, you will realize that his field of view is quite a bit smaller then if he was just looking up.
For Aaron Plessinger or Malcolm Stewart maybe, but Chase is expected to be at the sharp end of the class, not battling with Justin Cooper and Joey Savatgy every week. Every week this continues the WTF factor grows exponentially. This is an embarrassment for a brand that has a strong racing pedigree. I wonder if the rest of the field, Hunta, Eli, Webb, Kenny, even guys like Savatgy and Justin Cooper have taken a significant step forward in speed and Chase was caught out?
I just want to be clear, your position is that Chase Sexton has more talent than Eli Tomac?
My theory is that starts are 80% of his problem. He is consistently out jumped by whoever is next to him and is around 12-15th after the first corner. Once that happens he has to... mmm maybe override is a strong word, but certainly has to take more risks and spend more energy to get to the front, and that's how the crashes can happen. Maybe he's at a point where he's made the decision to back it down a notch, and combined with how bad his starts are and how stacked the field is that results in mediocrity.
Once he got passed AP yesterday, I believe in 6th, there was a big gap to 5th. At that point his gap to the leaders stayed consistent around 14-15 seconds until the end where the guys out front are still battling hard and the mid pack settles down a bit. So it's not like he doesn't have the speed.
I know its only 7 races into a 3 year contract, but I'd be intrigued to know how we would do on a Quad Lock Honda. Joey's killing it currently.
Chase was 1 sec off from the top lap times.
He was running with free track, 6sec, not held up by anyone besides lappers that everyone has to deal with. He was 2 sec of Prado 2 weeks go in practise. If this was a KTM year, he would have been 0.5 faster than everyone or at least within 1-2 tenths of fastest lap during a race, even with a bad start.
Sure, it's one setting or part away to turn It around, but, it's way to much off to go back to 0.5 ahead even if they got him comfortable.
Then add in that he hasn't raced in that place for half a season soon. That will have an effect also with probably no 20min sessions during weeks.
I like how she reported that kawi has identified the problem with the bike but they have only been able to fix it 50%. Is kawi just saying shit to get her to leave the truck?
He was 20+ sec off the leader
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Like I said, at the end he dropped off another 5 seconds because the front is going for the win while those back a bit settle down, but from the time he got to 6th to a few laps from the end he was running about the same laptimes
That was at a point of the race where the top guys were scrapping with each other and most likely were going a bit slower each lap because of defensive riding.
Wasn’t that because the flagger thought AP was Chase and didn’t get the checker out until Chase had already flown by?
Each week the TV coverage of chase will decrease unfortunately. He has been assumed that second tier type guy like AP, malcom, rj and Joey.
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No he didn’t. The view from behind showed he came down the straight the same as Chase. Bonehead move by Chase
That very productive week of testing paid great dividends.
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“For years now” seems like an odd take?
He has two titles (almost 3) an SX and an MX. Plus he is 15th on all time win list for SX so far.
But I would agree for it this current season.
The bike is plenty capable, its the rider not the bike. Hell did this retard not test ride before signing the contract!11??111
And if so that makes ALL complaints he may have invalid and he is not allowed to speak up cause he knew exactly what bike he is gonna ride!!111
They dug the Ol’ panic button out of the vault and it’s sitting on the table in the meeting room…. If Daytona goes like the last 3 they are mashing it over and over again.
Chiz is helping sexton with set up.
Last year I would have agreed with you. But seeing how Jorge was doing and chase’s results so far in starting to think Kawi is pretty lost right now. Which my be exacerbated because sexton has never been great at bike setup
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