Jason Thomas has given his well-connected insight on the problems the super talented.Chase Sexton has been having at Kawasaki adjusting to the bike and even before that at KTM and Honda. This is worth a listen!
JT said on the Live Motocross podcast: “He goes to KTM and things don’t really get any better, right? Like think how things transgressed over there. He can’t really figure the bike out. And then by the end, he’s not talking to anyone. He’s not talking to the team. He’s not talking to the PR person. The only person that’s allowed to talk to him is his mechanic. Even though like crew chiefs not allowed to talk to him, right? So it’s like toxic as toxic can get over there. And like it’s not for me to say that he needs to leave. I think they would have kept him. If he could have like found the happy medium, I think they would have been happy to keep him. But he wanted to leave again.
So he goes to Kawi. And all is well. Honeymoon phase, off-season testing, we’re shooting commercials in Hawaii, like everything’s great, right? And then a few races in, he’s not talking to anybody again. And we’re changing everything. The bike, we’re changing bike, we’re changing clamps, we’re changing swing arms and linkage. We got pro circuit, all pro circuit pieces on now. They’re doing the suspension. Now, this week, we got full stock. We’re stock everything. We’re stock clamps. It is really frustrating to watch from the outside.
I’ve talked to a lot of other people. So I’m stealing other people’s kind of quotes here. He is asking things of a motorcycle that are simply impossible. You can’t make a bike low in the rear and then also have it turn really well. He’s all over the map because he wants the bike to do certain things. But when you set it up a certain way, it’s never going to do that. Never ever.”
Listen to the full segment below:
Kawasaki probably thought things couldn’t get any worse than last year…but yet it arguably has. Sexton struggling and now injured plus that Weimar interview and the speed of Prado on the KTM….the team Chase left. It has beem rough for all involved.
