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A few things I noticed.
Technique-wow what a difference between the two. Jett looks in control the entire time. His legs tell the bike where to go.
Setup- Austin had a twitchy bike. It handles quickly, it just looks almost sponge like when the forks rebound quickly. Doesn’t seem very forgiving. Conversely, Jett’s Honda looks incredibly balanced and predictable.
Confidence- Austin clearly has some, but looks more like a racer who is willing his way to the front. When he gets real confidence back i see another level in him similar to years past. Jett oozes confidence right now. Calm, cool, and collected with the patience to allow things to play out.
What has caught your eye?
Technique-wow what a difference between the two. Jett looks in control the entire time. His legs tell the bike where to go.
Setup- Austin had a twitchy bike. It handles quickly, it just looks almost sponge like when the forks rebound quickly. Doesn’t seem very forgiving. Conversely, Jett’s Honda looks incredibly balanced and predictable.
Confidence- Austin clearly has some, but looks more like a racer who is willing his way to the front. When he gets real confidence back i see another level in him similar to years past. Jett oozes confidence right now. Calm, cool, and collected with the patience to allow things to play out.
What has caught your eye?
Forkner still has elite speed obviously, but it feels like a time bomb watching him ride. He's a few races back and already a bunch of moments, dude needs to chill if he wants to put it together. The Varize thing wasn't his fault, but he didn't remove himself from harm's way either.
But man, he crashes a lot.. that’s not gonna work out when you move to the 450s, ask Chase..
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It’s like someone saying that Barcias rear shock looks off, no shit.. good luck getting a rear shock look good while riding two gears to low and bouncing on the revlimiter all the time.
Good looking riders makes their bike look good.
As far as last night, Jett let Austin have it, and while riding behind Forkner, standing on the pegs at 90% of his own top speed, he looked extra good.
He wanted to make the pass quick and get away, but not get sucked into a battle. He tried a couple times but couldn't execute it fast enough to get away from a reaction from Forkner. Forkner wanted the win way too bad to make it easy.
Fork is old school speed... Jett is new school.. new school is much more efficient- simply easier to go fast over a longer period...
But with the point gotten across that clearly it could have been taken away.
After the Indy round when McAdoo actually passed Jett in the beginning of the main, Jett himself admitted that he wasn't confident enough at the start of the race to blitz the whoops the way McAdoo was. But Jett fans insisted that Jett was simply toying with him.
It just seems like there are fans that Jett has brought into the sport that clearly haven't watched it before, and expect him to simply be the absolute fastest rider every single lap of every single race. It's not gonna be that way in the 450 class, so I'm anxious to hear the explanations when Jett isn't beating Tomac by 15 sec every race.
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The lost the rear twice at Arlington.
Got hit from behind from hardy Munoz.
And at Atlanta he hit his front wheel into rj Hampshire.
On topic. I don't really agree Jett was toying with Austin I think he was wanting/trying to get passed but for whatever reason couldn't....either that or he was being super cautious for the championship. The last lap especially at the end of one of the rhythms Forkner made a mistake and Jett checked right up...Ricky said they both made a mistake but it looked like Jett kindof panicked, hit the brakes and went and rolled the last jump instead of double.
I'm not sure Forkner looked as on the ragged edge as some people are saying, he looked fine to me.
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