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Am I alone feeling that Ken was Jett's biggest threat this year?
While I personally felt more nervous at Ironman than any other round, looking back I do think that KR offered the only opportunity for Jett to make a huge mistake from Raw speed and pressure, granted he made it back, but curious on y'alls thoughts on that and how it could play into the finals.
I think Jett has the starts so none of this matters without Tomac and his non hydraulic starts, but that's another conversation...
Ken probably could dig deep and match Jett on speed but I doubt he would run the pace for a whole moto without mistakes.
I would have like to see Kenny race him at Thunder Valley (one his best tracks), Highpoint, Millville and Unadilla (another great track for Kenny). I think there is a chance he would have beaten Jett had he raced all of those rounds. He was supposed to race Unadilla wasn't he. But he chose not to, maybe a small injury.
There’s no doubt about Roczen’s speed, he was the only one to out qualify Jett.
Could he have taken a win away though? We’ll never know.
The crash at high point in tricky conditions and the bad start in budds were supposed to be the moments. In the end he wins comfortably
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Are you saying only Ken had the raw speed to beat Jett? More then Chase? No
Must suck to hate those sweet aussie nips.
I was at the race, Kenny was definitely Jett’s biggest challenger. Jett was still very patient after his mistake and still took comfortable wins after he passed Kenny, though.
Would've been awesome to see the 94 battle with Jett all summer, it was incredibly fun to watch at the track.
That first moto at Budds, I really wish Chase had gotten to the lead as Jett was working his way through the pack. That would have been an interesting one for sure. Only time Jett wasn’t top two after the first lap or two.
Are you ok? Jetts the fastest and only Chase had the speed to potentially beat him. No clue what your comment means
Kenny is the only one that I can remember straight up passing Jett this year. Jett obviously got him back eventually but I can’t remember anyone else straight up passing Jett. Sexton never did. Got close a lot.
Why the downvotes? Who am I forgetting that straight up passed Jett?
Kenny has always had the sprint speed at the start of the race. Jett would eventually get him in my opinion tho.
I was rewatching High Point last night.
Moto 1 - Jett was a few seconds ahead when he down around the 16min mark (lap 6). By the time he got up and back on pace again Ken had a 9 sec lead. Jett caught and passed him with 5mins to go (around lap 11). Ken passed him back for about half a lap then Jett retook the lead. Ken fell on the 2nd last lap with a 2 sec gap to Jett. So Jett closed up a 9 sec gap in 5 laps.
Moto 2 - Jett was 6 secs behind Ken on lap 4 when AP fell and held Jett up; gap blew out to over 11 secs. Jett dropped the hammer and pulled out a 2:14, then didn't go above 2:19 until the second last lap. He caught and passed Ken on lap 11, so he closed up an 11sec gap in 6 laps. By the second last lap the gap had opened to over 6 secs before he backed off leading to the flag.
I'm bored and I decided to look up some stats, although they don't always tell the story. Here's his margin of victory per moto, what place he was on the first lap, what place 2nd was, then who that 2nd place finisher was.
Do whatever you want with this data.
+10.082 (1st, 4th) Sexton
+01.008 (1st, 2nd) Sexton
+04.122 (1st, 2nd) Ferrandis
+05.041 (1st, 2nd) Webb
+31.609 (1st, 2nd) Webb
+11.993 (1st, 5th) Plessinger
+26.205 (1st, 3rd) Marchbanks (this was the race Jett crashed, then Roczen crashed late)
+02.448 (4th, 1st) Roczen
+17.920 (1st, 5th) Sexton
+04.894 (1st, 2nd) Ferrandis
+07.003 (1st, 2nd) Sexton
+14.711 (1st, 4th) Sexton
+11.908 (1st, 6th) Sexton
+16.728 (1st, 2nd) Sexton
+07.992 (2nd, 3rd) Sexton (Ferrandis led 2 laps)
+03.053 (2nd, 3rd) Sexton (Plessinger led 3 laps)
+01.690 (1st, 5th) Ferrandis
+09.209 (1st, 2nd) Sexton
+04.377 (6th, 5th) Anderson (Cianciarulo led 3 laps, Plessinger led 4 laps)
+00.771 (1st, 3rd) Sexton
+05.883 (1st, 3rd) Sexton
+01.736 (1st, 2nd) Sexton
Here is Jett's average margin of victory over each rider:
+08.308 Sexton, 13 motos
+03.568 Ferrandis, 3 motos
+18.325 Webb, 2 motos
+02.448 Roczen, 1 moto
+04.377 Anderson, 1 moto
+11.993 Plessinger, 1 moto
+26.205 Marchbanks, 1 moto
I really got a kick out of calling Ken as "the first guy to holeshot and lead laps besides Jett this year" before High Point. It's crazy that Sexton never led a lap after he came back though.
He was literally saying neither chase or ken had the speed to beat jett, how tf is that hating aussies?
I think no one had Jett’s margins. Ken is always doing his best, but I don’t think he could beat 2023 Jett.
I’d have to go back and watch the starts, but it occurred to me that the only times Jett was happy to sit behind another rider (if he didn’t get the holeshot) was if it wasn’t Sexton.
Conversely the few times that Sexton reached the first corner ahead of Jett he seemed to hit the afterburners to pass Chase quickly.
It’s as if he was aware Chase was his biggest threat and the strategy was to make him play catch up and never have to follow.
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