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Can't wait to hear Big Lew put a positive spin on this. The Sexton/Lew bromance is entertaining, but you're not going to get any journalistic insights from Lew at this point.
Jett came along, the bar got raised and what was good enough to win before 2023 was no longer.
With the benefit of hindsight I reckon in 2022 Chase was riding at his sustainable limit which was good enough to push Eli all the way. 2023 comes along, he could barely show Jett a wheel, and starts pushing beyond his sustainable limit.
You could clearly see in ‘24 once Jett went out and Chase only had Hunter to deal with (who was in his rookie 450 year) he backs the pace off just enough to beat Hunter and barely put a foot wrong the second half of the season.
Now it’s compounded because not is Jett still there, Hunter has elevated his game, we’ve had a revitalised Eli (outside of injuries), Prado found his old self and Deegan has arrived on scene. His sustainable limit is not good enough for 2nd anymore; it’s barely good enough to crack the top five. Add in a questionable bike and a team that can’t seem to get out of its own way and the outcome is not good.
Surely he must be questioning himself? Is it me? Was it always me? Man it must be messing with his head. Every tip over, front tuck, he must be screaming at himself.
Ok so he’s burned another bridge. Where does he go now
I think there is only 3 places that are possible
Can’t do his own team because he clearly struggles with setup
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Chase either needs to go to HEP and take the lead ride there when Ken hangs up the boots and see if Larry Brooks can get Chase's head together. You can't say it is the bike when Marchbanks was running pretty much the same speed, and the only three riders in front of him in the second moto are currently are freaks.
Ghost riding a bike into a pit doesn't really sound so much like he has a bike issue but more a team issue..
I mean we'd all assume it's a Chase issue haha but the fact it went so badly with Prado and now Chase.
My eyebrows are raised with the whole situation haha
You missed Triumph.
Haarup is showing the bike is good, and they now need a true top rider - IF their US team setup is good enough to support that.
Leave his old man at home, hire a sports psychologist, pay him on top 5 results only.
I cant wait for people to say how profesional Sexton behaves while that spanish guy wasnt! Real class act!
One more change to make. Tire brand. The only change he hasn’t made.
Right if they Honda, Ktm and Kawi all suck so bad…then why have those bikes won a truck load of races in the last 2 years in the premiere class?
Nonsense about Sexton being a boderline top 5 based on skill. Prado hated that bike now he’s elite again. And Chase has looked better thru two rounds than Prado was when he’s not on the ground. Marchbanks is not a diva like Prado and Sexton so he’s making the best of a factory bike. Sexton is not barely a top 5 guy. If he’s on KTM is in the mix with the Brothers but he shot himself in the foot just like he did with Honda. Moral of the story is for the Prado/Sexton guys the bike is not up to par.
What percentage of titles has Kawi, KTM group, and Honda won the past 15 years? I would say the bikes are pretty good 🤔
Pretty easy to win titles when you employ Ryan Villopoto and peak Eli Tomac.
And, Marchbanks is running pretty much a full factory bike and Sexton’s bike remains an amalgamation of production/aftermarket components that changes each week. I hate to say it, but Marchbanks seems to be a more solid rider than Sexton at the moment. For the most part, he simply ‘just rides the bike” at a high level without bitching about it.
Maybe its time for job swap and put Big Lew out there next weekend.
Chase was infinitely better on the KTM. What are we talking about? He beat Jett "for that one race" on the KTM. He's getting his doors blown off by Deegan now. And he beat 100% healthy Jett, not this injury hampered version we have now. To be clear, I know hes a total headcase and I blame his issues this year on him. But saying there's been little difference between him on Kawi or KTM is crazy talk
You could've stopped after "Sexton has a problem..."
They should have left Chase’s bike on the ground until he was ready to pick it up.
Pit Row
Not sure why everyone feels the need to pick a side and put all of the blame there. It's a bad marriage, it's not going to work, and all parties are to blame. All parties will move on to their next bad marriage if they don't admit their faults.
This.
I've heard the exact same. He's looking for things a bike can't do. It's happened on every 450 so far.
Sexton would be well served to go to a program like Aldon Bakers at this point in his career. Seems like the missing part of his program. The bike has been the least of his problems these past couple years.
I mean he didn't fight Deegs at all in that second moto, and if you can't find the motivation to keep that guy behind you then you aren't that competitive. No fucking way Deegan should be ahead of Sexton regardless of what bike he is riding-in theory, but hungry dog gets the bone so Deegs to his credit gapped him like a back marker. He has totally lost the plot. Every guy out there has a bike that is bouncing around.....hell watch moto 2 of the WMX! Those girls were sending it! He needs to decide like right now what he wants to do, otherwise give Kawi their money back and fly back to Hawaii. He needs to watch Rocky 3, go back to Detroit, eye of the tiger Rock!
Stewart rode the same way and was pretty particular about his front end feel, I doubt the feeling he's looking for "can't be obtained." It's not like this is the first time a rider has struggled to find the right set-up on any manufacturer, I remember Chad Reed bitching about every bike he switched to for years. I will say it's much more admirable when a guy can just put it to the back of their mind and bulldog through it like RV did, but not everyone is built like that.
Why did Chase leave KTM? He was doing great with that orange bike.
Another year's shit show coming up for Sexton.
What a whiny bitch
Yes, long time ago and to many hits to the head!
Dude I agree 100%. He was his fastest ever on that bike and he acted like a 2 year old and worked his way off the team. He is fucked now.
Pretty sure he has decided and he wants to get to the end of this year without injury and move on. Continuing the marriage analogy, they're sleeping in separate bedrooms and making only superficial attempts to fix things but the lawyers told them both not to move out of the house and it's just a waiting game.
Both sides hit the market as multi time divorcee. Chase has that hot speed and kawi has the money so they can both rebound but all their friends will be skeptical for quite a while.
Oh yeah. Prado sure made the Indian bike look stellar yesterday.
If Prado wanted to ghost ride his bike after the first moto yesterday, he would have had to push it.
Chase is probable to try and not qualify at an upcoming race kinda like Jorge last year...
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