Sexton needs to burry some PVC at the practice track

I might be remembering wrong, but wasn’t it a right turn that he went down in? Still wild to see that pipe there. 

Looked like he lost the front in the flat and it caught in a rut, throwing him over.

Plenty of guys hit that rut. He keeps going over the front end. Sexton has a bad bike set up issue. 

That photo is entering the whoops 

Wrong turn and its every place he goes. 

Hard to imagine a piece of 2" diameter PVC pipe causing an endo?

Is it possible chase grabbed too much front brake causing him to endo on flat ground?

That’s PVC is what they run the timing wires through. I’ve seen it pop up before but never in a turn. I thought that they usually put those on a jump face so they don’t get dug up. 

Why does everyone keep looking for some magic reason Chase keeps crashing on his own? 21 other riders were on the same track and the same time, and nobody else pushed the front end and went down in that corner. 

I'm actually a Chase fan and think he'll figure it out, but it's not a bike setup issue. If it was he'd be on his head in practice and the heats. Maybe it's a setup issue once the track gets beat down like in that picture, but at the same time you have to ride the track and not let the track ride you. 

Back it down 2%, don't trust the front...who knows what the actual issue is, but it's controllable and changeable. Right?

That was in the corner before the whoops. Chase has the stiffest front end ive ever felt except maybe James Stewarts bike. He needs a change of scenery. KTM will be a good change but so would Yamaha.

I was surprised that Chase went down with 11:00 min to go. Usually he waits until the 5 min mark. Wasn’t shock fade from overheating.

It's weird what you find in dirt. The AX track I built and ran for 4 years surprised me in some of the things I found. 

After building a hard 2' base , we brought in about 300 more dump truck loads. Tried to filter what we could and cleaned out rocks every single day. Hard to filter moist clay. 

Moving dirt around one night making some new obstacles, running the cat I ran over something I could feel with the D5. I was like " what the hell was that? " This is like 2 - 3 years in and moving every square inch of that dirt multiple times. 

I found a 3' x 4' , 1' thick chunk of concrete. How the heck did I never see or feel that thing in all the times of moving all that dirt around. Even after 4 years , we would still find bowling ball sized rocks and so forth. 

Could it simply be that Chase is trying to go too fast? That it is not possible for him to sustain that speed for the whole main event and not make a mistake?

I think hes starting to figure it out. The earlier he crashes the more time he has to get back in the lead……oh wait - Nevermind

Guess who used to coach him?

Pretty sure the crowed going nuts and seeing ET1 in second forced the error. 

I've seen all kinds of stuff during track walks and obviously that doesn't even cover the stuff you can't see like that pipe. Bricks and Car parts in Detroit was a a good one( car parts probably from Monster Jam). In Toronto 2016 there a was a block of concrete the size of a small desktop computer in the sand rollers they were jumping into. Caused a flat tire for my rider and a pitstop to swap the rear wheel. In Daytona there was a piece of rebar sticking out of one of the rhythm sections about 2 inches that we couldn't pull out and had to notify the track crew so they could go dig it out, probably wasn't the only one out there. 

Think some of these crashes when front end goes out from under him may be too much front brake.