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You know, I heard he's "flying at the test tracks".
"Mercury Marine and Yamaha Marine dominate the American market but it’s hard not to notice the emergence of Suzuki in the past decade."
The Japanese manufacturer has class leading engines too, for instance, the DF 70 and DF 90 4 cylinders were the lightest in their class for the longest time, as Merc and Yamaha fumbled around with switching from two stroke to four stroke, with overweight engines across the lineup, Suzuki had and still has the lightest in this range. The DF 140 has been around for a long time and is a repower dream for small fishing boats and center consoles. Under 400 Lbs, priced extremely well, the little 4 cylinder beat other 135 or 150 HP outboards on most specs and on price every time.
https://www.wavetowave.com/home/2020/8/30/suzuki-marine-outboard-market…
If he REALLY wants to keep his own program…
Go the Chad route and start his own team.
Red Bull, Fox…plus his WSX bucks…etc. He could pull it off and might even be able to buy/lease some HRC support.
Bye the way, his Red Bull alignment could work with GasGas, KTM, Honda…even…Suzuki
As for wether or not he can ride a brand that has a Monster sponsored factory team…? We’ll see…or…is the Monster sponsorship gonna be part of the change…?
A year based on US SX & WSX along with other select events could work out for Kenny and his sponsors. It would be wise for WSX to help make it happen, too.
So, we’ll see, I guess.
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I don't think he is anymore. His attitude, results, and self-righteousness the last few years has removed him from that category, in my opinion.
Maybe I'm wrong, but there has definitely been a huge shift in his fan base and his general persona.
Every interview has an excuse in it, even when he won. Maybe he doesn't care because he is set for life AND he has a family he genuinely seems to adore. Then you have that Instagram post, which tends to show he cares still....but then his season went about how most assumed it would.
You can only trade on marketability for so long, especially when the public perception is you always make excuses and give the impression you don't even have a passion for racing anymore. That's not the image most companies want.
I would argue Sexton is THE most marketable face in the sport right now.
Again, I would love to see Roczen compete at the top in 2023....but I doubt it will be for a traditional 450 factory team. Those bridges have all seemingly been burned.
That last few seasons he has really hurt his own persona. From the weird posts of IG that get deleted, to always blaming the bike other things on his sub-par results.
He really makes himself look like a total headcase to the outside world and that includes sponsors. He blew a Factory Honda ride to go win a 2-race championship with 3rd string riders (other than Tomac).
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