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Didnt factory Kawasaki win more 450 mains than star yamaha?
You're almost making an argument against yourself. Doesn't matter what team/bike it is a proper elite rider like Tomac can make it work.
All im saying is it isn't as simple as it's all the teams fault. Yet. I could be proven wrong. As many others have mentioned in here they could be going through a similar situation to what Yamaha went through before moving to Star.
Not much, I think it's the team than the bike
wasn't a major reason stated for Tomac leaving Kawi that they wouldn't let him make adjustments and changes he felt was needed to get max out of his performance on the bike?
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Go back and watch racer x vault or motos with Tomac on the Kawi. Look at the bike, compare it to his Yamaha and KTM. You will find that the KX looks choppered out and the exact opposite of his weird stiff shock, softer forks setup
Sexton won 2 SX races on the bike. He is still riding the bike. Prado shit talked the bike and quit on Kawasaki. Big difference.
He hated the bike and team. He got out of his contract.
Why bust your ass if you already gave your 2 week notice.
Remember he hated his job and wanted a new one.
Yeah that’s all fine and dandy….but that’s not what happened….or how it went down
He’s no longer on Kawi and he’s back on KTM. It’s exactly what he wanted.
I just don’t get why anyone cares that he hated his job and wanted his old one back. It’s over, it happen. It’s just a job to them. We are the fans.
And that’s your opinion which is fine…but the fact is he quit on his team that he was being paid 7 figures to be on and race for with a contract between both parties. He could of easily handled it privately between parties but chose to publicly slam the team and attempted to not qualify for a race (believe me the team leadership sucks) but there is a right way and a wrong way to deal in contract disputes and trying not to qualify is definitely the wrong way….actually it was 100% classless and he has yet to show that he has any class at all…
Maybe that was his only option to get out of the other 2 years left.
Many people have told their boss to F Off to get fired.
Come on Don, it’s a job he hated.
He finished 6th overall outdoors the same sexton did indoors…. So did they both quit or only Prado?
Well the fact is one took a dive the other has not….one finished 6th in SX one finished 9th and what does that have to do with walking out on your team, it’s irrelevant…And let’s not forget that Sexton wasn’t happy at KTM….did he quit on the team or leave at the end of his contract…
Trying not to qualify was his only way out?….come on man all that did was prolong any talks they may have been in…making it public the way he did was classless…this situation is a little different than quitting your job at McDonald’s….
Anderson, won quite a few races on the Green Machine not all that long ago.
A glucocorticoid steroid he used as anti inflammatory. it’s not really a reason to fire someone, but the drunk needed him gone so they could get Tomac.
How many races did he win on the new gen bike?
Exactly.
The people who are poo-pooing on Kawasaki should do their research on how many premier class championships they have won in the past 20 years.
Hint, they have the most 😆
I'll bring this up again. Honda went 20 YEARS without a premier class supercross title. Oh and Chase Sexton helped end that streak for them. Where was the blame mob then?
Pit Row
Febvre has said the same thing, not comfortable on the Kawi currently so can't push as hard as he want.
And what else changed at Honda?…..oh yeah they changed team management…Yam 450 team…the same they changed management…Now let’s see how long it takes Kaw to do the same…
Wait until 5-6 rounds in when Chase has been riding around in 6-10th place. He ain't staying at Kawi.
So it won't be any difference when all this is settled.
You are factually wrong. Monster refused to even discuss early release. That's why he tries not to qualify.
That led to Monster giving in.
Anything classless, is Monster refusing to part ways and handle it like adults.
Dude….. He tried not to qualify, that’s a Rat thing to do.
They could change any every single Kawasaki employee involved with this race team. That's not going to change the fact that they (Kawasaki) will be racing against some of they best we've ever seen. Jett, Hunter, Tomac, Deegan. People seem to be blind to that.
Be honest, will a change of Kawasaki management be THE factor to beat those guys? Is that going to be the difference? Will new management be able to offer Chase changes so good that he goes from a couple of wins per season to beating everyone on the regular?
Uhh there were plenty criticizing Honda/kenny and Chase because there were constant issues with bike set up.
He disappeared for weeks or months it seemed like he quit.
He stopped talking to the team entirely for months seems like not working with the team is quitting..
Did he try his hardest? Doesn’t seem like it when he missed race after race on Ktm and kawi with no injury mentioned. Seems like that’s quitting.
I guess not tho
If they would have let him out, like others have done when it's not working - it wouldn't have had to go that far. Chase and Webb already taken "extended vacations" when they didn't want to ride. Their teams let them do that.
He is the one that walked out on millions of dollars. Doubt you would have paid your way out from a company even if it meant just losing 50k.
Just watch this summer, when Chase will leave.
"did he quit on the team or leave at the end of his contract… "
Im not taking sides here but from what I remember last outdoors Sextons own team seemed to be puzzled as to why he was out so long.
I like your train of thought, but I can tell you that type of innovative thinking doesn’t sit well on this forum. Most of em are soooo narrow minded.
Yep, the best way for factory Kawasaki to show the world they have turned things around is to hire a different manufacturer to run the team and build a non-Kawasaki race bike. Should do wonders for KX sales as well. To heck with all the narrow minded thinkers around here. 😑
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