Upgrade to enjoy this feature!
Vital MX fantasy is free to play, but Premium users receive great benefits. Premium benefits include:
- View and download rider stats
- Pick trends
- Create a private league
- And more!
Only $10 for all 2026 SX, MX, and SMX series.
Honda: Been with the Lawrences for several years and through a chassis/model update. Had small problems, worked through them. Top of class.
Suzuki: same chassis / same rider for several years - though Kenny did change alot in previous years he is stable now and knows what he wants.
KTM: Eli knows what he wants out of any bike, KTM knows how to tailor a bike. Jorge returning home so they already know what he needs.
Star Yamaha: Willing to do whatever is needed, has had a few small bobbles with Webb and Haiden before, but nothing chronic - mostly top of class.
and then there's Kawasaki: Neither the team nor the recent riders (Jorge/Chase) can figure out what each other needs to be successful.
I feel like this Kawi situation is like Factory Yamaha in 2018/19. The stock bike was winning every shootout but the factory bike looked awful with Webb and Plessinger struggling every weekend. Star took over the 450 program and the bike turned around soon after. The most likely scenario here is that Factory Kawi is screwing up the bike. If Prado and Sexton both drop their multi year contracts year one Kawi needs to change management and or personnel of the team.
Yes, so I guess I misspoke, the drunk Jet Skier was the one that set up Millsaps, and did the dirty work.
Which one?
The Shop
Luxon 4-Post Bar Mounts
$189.95 - $239.95
Free shipping: VITALMX
DeCal Works Huge Plastic Inventory of UFO and Polisport kits.
Didn't Fisher run off Reed? Fahie had a lesser role back then.
Fahie was the behind the scene guy so to speak. He pushed his way into the managers role in 2011.
Yup…that guy…
Right, Fahie had a lesser role when Reed was there and took over as manager after the 2011 season. Fisher ran off Reed and almost Pro Circuit as well. His dismissal was well-earned.
What was Mike Williamson’s last year?
This situation is akin to turning around a cargo ship in the Suez Canal......I have difficulty envisioning Chase as a podium guy in 3 weeks at Pala. My bet is Prado yards him week in and week out-that will be a tough look, when it already looked pretty tough throughout SX.
Last question should have been…….so…where is the new 2 stroke?…..
White
This reminded me of the Prado vs Marchbanks debate going into this season, but now it's Prado vs Sexton going into outdoors. And I think almost everyone would take Prado. Hell, they're not even that far apart in supercross
I think Weimer was spot on in his Pulp interview when he said that Kawi may have changed their ways in terms of how strict they are with set up now, but the problems they are having currently stem from all those years they didn't allow riders to test to gain feedback for bike development.
Now this is conjecture but I think they were probably strict with Prado too as he was a newcomer to the US and they thought they knew more than him, but now with Chase, both because he is a former champ stateside, and they now have a lot of eyes on them because of the Prado fiasco last season they are being a lot more open with setup.
The thing is though, from what we've heard, Chase has no idea how to set up a bike. So if anytime would be a good time for Kawi to be strict with setup, it would probably be now. On the other hand, the lack of development at Kawi from all those years of not allowing testing is hurting even more now, as they now have a top rider who has no idea how to setup a bike, and they have no base to provide him as a direct result of that lack of testing.
Chase is a hot mess with bike setup- but unfortunately due to historical matters, including last year with Prado, Kawi looks worse in this situation.
He needs to go to Star on an incentive based contract by himself, get the bike in a window and leave it alone
Ms Mystery over here...
Just don't ask this guy...or his son...for any set up advice...
Pit Row
Needs stronger leadership than he has at Kawi, and needs to go it alone without his Dad as his practice mechanic. From all accounts Keir is usually on a different page to the team with setting the bike up. Chase is in a no win situation and has too many tabs open in his brain and needs stability, strong leadership and one voice when it comes to engineering the setup
Well, your a little off, he knows and asks for things that the team will not do.
Can you give some examples? Does he want dual rear shocks? What are they asking for that factory teams cannot oblige?
Do you even follow the sport or do you just like being a clown? Serious question
Well he is on his 3rd username….
Someone send big Lews interview with Fahie to the Kawi brass in Japan, maybe this will get them to fire him lol
That are impossible....then throws a fit
I'd like to see Kawi go back to KYB like Tomac but they really needed to do that from the start so it wasn't a shit show when they changed
Especially KTM. They freaking put on KYB suspension on the bike for him, that is mindblowing. I doubt a team (in the modern era) has ever bent over backwards for a rider like that.
I get that he left Honda. Jett and Hunter were coming and that was always going to be an difficult situation to be in.
I heard kawi factory contracts are written with ink that disappears in less than a years time
😊
Completely fake news.
Serious question. Do you really think Chase and his Dad have nothing to do with his ongoing problems setting up a bike and with gelling with any teams he is on? This is the third factory team he's been on in which the same problems keep occuring.
For further context, it has been well known in the pits for a long time that Chase's dad is problematic and that Chase himself is often rude and disrespectful to team personnel. But if you want to put this latest debacle all on Kawi go ahead...
Post a reply to: Dan Fahie post race interview with Lewis