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Yep. Lars knows how to behave as a businessman and a gentleman. I'm not so sure about Keir, and I pity Chase for being born under him.
What could possibly go wrong?
at this point now i REALLY wanna know why stewart and chase parted ways. i always figured stewart had a decent slice of the blame pie given he went through a flaky period, but not now. JS7 told sexton what he needed to change and sexton and his dad thought they knew better and didn't listen? if there's one guy who chase should be able to relate and listen to, its stewart, given their similarities. stew learned some things the hard way for sure that would help him. would love to know what went down there
Okay, curiosity is getting me. So many on here are putting blame on Chases dad, Keir.
What is he doing? Anyone have some good stories? I'll be waiting with some popcorn.
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Chase hasn’t even earned the right to act like he does in my opinion. I wouldn’t hire him.
From what I’ve gathered, his dad is his quasi practice mech. His input translates over to Chase’s race bike setups whether it’s right or wrong. Factories eventually get tired of the incorrect input and bike setup demands, and subsequent complaints when something isn’t gelling. I’m sure others have better or specific examples.
He was already signed with kawi long before outdoor started.
Because he hated th bike
I dunno why Ringo’s comment has so many down votes.
On pulp recently John Tomac was on there talking about Eli switching teams.
He said that Eli had put in a lot of testing on a new chassis (the 2017 model?)
And Eli wanted to race that in 2016. Honda told him no, he had to race his old 2015 chassis in 2016. Eli said he’s not riding that chassis for another season- and so he switched to Kawasaki,?
SX.
I don't believe that for a minute. If the Lawrence's left Honda, they would take Chase back in a heartbeat.
Sorry, but I don't think you've ever worked at elite levels before. Pride and marking one's territory are big, big factors.
Do you think Elon Musk will ever work with Reid Hoffman again? Chase ain't going back to Honda.
0 chance
Chase Sexton 450 Supercross Career in a nutshell…
Kawasaki has a CHASE sexton problem….
you can make a blooper reel for anybody, even dungey, but holy shit this is next level. theres just so many in there where he's clearly not thinking. at all. @1;38 sending it into a flat inside because he's so fixated on beating tomac ahead of him. zero patience. needs ADHD meds stat.
It is all anecdotal, nobody has come forward with actual things Chase's dad has done that were off course.
His dad isn’t really doing anything bad at all. Him and Chases trainer have told him he needs to just stop being so picky and just learn how to ride the bike.
Just being a devils advocate here, but if Keir has been Chases mechanic his entire life wouldn’t it make sense that he would know how to set a bike up for his son? It is apparent that Kawi is willing to try pretty much anything, being as Chase showed up fully kitted out on PC suspension and ended up winning, but maybe the factory decided that wasn’t a look they wanted and made him change? I’m just saying we don’t exactly know what’s going on behind closed doors and to place 100% of the blame on Keir isn’t where it’s at IMO. Kawi’s struggles transcend Chase and his dad, as we have seen in recent years.
Pit Row
Eli stated in interviews after he went to Kawi that the Honda had spit him off several times without warning, implying that he had major trust issues with the chassis. It was a weird deal, because he beat Dungey by over a minute at Hangtown on his FC Honda, and dominated the first 5 motos before he crashed at Lakewood and destroyed his shoulders.
He also said Eli was going to re-sign with Honda but when the day came the guy who was supposed to bring the contract decided to go golfing instead so he signed with Kawi.
Because he had a bad race and disliked the bike that weekend. If he would have signed before the race, done deal. You missed that part
Yeah maybe I missed that part. He couldn’t have hated the bike that much if he was prepared to re-sign though. I would guess the contract deal irritated him a bit and was part of why he made those comments.
How could this hurt? When I first heard of this the first thing I thought is RV is a rear steer guy. Kawi already has MC2 so what's going on here?
Could go either way for sure and we aren’t going to know the answer on here.
A wise man once told me “Just because you’ve been doing something for XX years, doesn’t mean you’ve been doing it right for XX years.”
I think it was mostly SX related because he made the decision early 2015, like after a few rounds. The crash that took him out didn't help in him summarize the Honda adventure.
No matter what, I don't see Tomac winning by a minute on the kawi, he barely won 2-3 motos outdoors the year after, over a full season.
100% on the wise man quote, I can just see how as a father who played a part in getting his son to where he is when they didn’t have factory mechanics and what not it would be hard to take a step back. I can understand that is all I’m saying not saying it’s right one way or the other, just simply stating I can understand.
Yeah, it took him a while to get fully fit again, and Kenny was on rails that summer on the RCH Suzuki. I saw them race live at Red Bud that year, and Kenny was incredible.
Everyone rises to their own level of incompetence. In other words you do well at something so you go to the next level, you are successful so move up again and so on. Until you hit a level where what you are doing no longer works or isn’t good enough.
Peter principle. Once you learn what it is you can't stop seeing it in any big organization.
Yep I completely understand, and I am not saying that Keir is a factory level mechanic. I’m just saying that him and Chase aren’t the whole problem at Kawi.
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