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Zero percent chance he wastes the rest of his career on that thing.
1 or 2 bad crashes outdoors, and he'll sit the rest of the season.
Well he sure hasn't made the best choices so far. Should have stayed KTM in my opinion.
It’s not the bike. He did the same thing on Honda and KTM. If you need proof just watch a single minute of this. I’ll admit I forgot how many races he threw away on the Honda.
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i just remember when ET and Jett were going down to the wire in '24? and Chase was leading but all eyes were on ET/Jett. They came around the corner and Chase was on the ground and I just thought "Ok, now that he's out of the way...." like it was a foregone conclusion. In all fairness though, anyone with a long career could have a pretty similar highlight reel of boneheaded crashes (though Chase certainly is in the upper echelon of knucklehead)
Says the expert on shitting on riders and their families….
He looked amazing on the KTM. Chases technique is flawless when he’s on, and the Ktm really suited him IMO. I remember red bud last year there were a few laps where he was straight up riding faster than Jett. I believe he was behind him and closing the gap. It’s not often you see people straight up outriding Jett. Especially first ride back after sitting out
Only motocross. Look how many times he crashed in Supercross on the KTM
Is he talking about ET?
Nothing wrong with the kawi in stock trim. The issue is the team and/or chases lack of ability to set up the bike.
Before the season start and everything was great...
Would make sense for Star.
JCoop to spread his wings (Triumph?)
Would Webb, with all he’s accomplished, be expecting similar $ to Sexton? Moving forward, Chase would be the better option for Star, and they could probably get him cheap…er…ish.
Why did he move from KTM? Did Kawasaki offer him much more money and better future? Scared of the financial situation of KTM (at the time).
Sorry, haven't been following this saga in detail...
Personality clashes is apparently what it was. Didn't really gel with the team.
Anyone thought of PMG? They seems a bit more loose with their program, might be a good fit personality wise? He's also friends with Ken, replace El Hombre (too soon?).
He was fast on the Honda too, he is fast on all of them just that he seems to not be so great on bike setup, at last that's my opinion (perhaps not fact)
This is just hypothetical, but what if chase went to PMG suzuki with their incoming factory support. Roczen seemed to have similar setup issues for years. Since he has moved over to suzuki, he has been enjoying the team and bike. It seems from the outside that PMG will give Kenny whatever he needs to feel comfortable. Just a thought
I think someone's going to leave Kawasaki again, but this time it won't be the rider, it will be someone in a key leadership position.
I just don't see what more management can do, they literally let Chase run Kitchens PC practice suspension and won on it!
PC clamps and all the shit, what are they not giving Chase that he wants?
And some point the rider has to take ownership of setting up the bike and steer the team in the right direction and it sounds like chase can't do that.
Pit Row
He needs to spend a good chunk of his salary for a great sports shrink to figure out why he implodes, and a brand new mentor that he'll respect and adapt. He's got flashes of brilliance, he just needs to figure out how to turn the flashes to commonplace. If he doesn't do that, no more championships for Chase. The competition is only getting stronger. Bike does not matter.
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Chase definitely needs to own it, but the leadership is paid to win just like Chase is.
That's always been an interesting aspect of this sport. In college football for example (an almost every sport), the coaches are expected to win and if they don't, they are replaced. Look at the difference DeCoster, Brooks, and Lindstrom have made in the Teams they are responsible for.....compared to current Kawi and another poor example was Albrecht at JGR. Those last two had unlimited resources and couldn't get it done. Leadership matters in every business.
He needs to ditch he's dad and grow up.
His dad is toxic and needs to fuck off just like RV fucked his dad off and he went to another level, you can't have someone like that in your ear.
I'm not dissagreeing at all but what can they do?
J-Bone is an interesting one, JGR tried to run the team like a NASCAR team and making all these stupid parts and god knows what, they had the shittest Yamaha that they have ever made, it was a tough gig
I don’t agree that all is excused. What he did was straight up unprofessional and I don’t think it’s that ridiculous to expect someone to honour the contract they signed.
Crazy Chase is the problem...the teams aren't crazy and nor are the bikes...
He needs to tell his dad to concentrate on burgers not bikes...and get a decent sports psychologist...
They need to provide a good base. At most, riders should have to adjust suspension valving and engine character. That's is plenty enough in terms of combinations.
When you have to throw linkage, clamps, offsets, rakes, swingarms and so on as a rider, there is something wrong from the start. Probably bike design, it's a rear steering bike and has been for years. Teams job is to make it neutral or front end steering if the team brings on such riders
I don't think Chase was this lost at neither Honda or KTM.
Off topic but I’ve always thought Mike Alessi’s career would look a lot different if he would’ve been his own person and not let Tony run every aspect of his life. Nothing against Tony himself, I think he was just passionate to a fault.
So the managers need to get a good base, got it.
So the start with a good base, the. Chase wants XYZ, then, he also wants it do do another thing and it goes on and on and they get so lost, so they go back to the base and start over, same thing happens, Chase gets frustrated, he's lost the try to patch over a patch over a patch and at some point the mental side enters the chat, is he feeling what he's feeling or is it something else.
Then his dad is in his ear and the tension builds and communication breaks down and that the end of the game.
It's a fact that he would walk through the KTM factory and not talk to anyone with his sunglasses on, he would communicate with the team though a 3rd party.
I don't know if he was lost but he wasn't happy.
Same at Honda, wanted the works shock then Jett was pumping him and he wanted the works BFRC and they didn't have any because they had to be pre ordered so so he was shitty about that.
He's a head case and needs to sort himself out
It's 100% the bike. I'm strictly talking about performance.
When have you ever seen Chase this bad? This is easily the worst he's ever looked in his career.
How soon can Kove have a 450 ready
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