Sexton Crashes Out

Chase Sexton said his crash wasn’t caused by him after his Kawasaki appeared to lock up in mid-air and send him over the bars into a violent landing that means Sexton is away home to get his knee checked out. 

Sexton said: “Well not a great day. Knee feels cooked but will get it checked when I get home. Incident was out of my control and feeling like a passenger was very scary. I’m just very lucky to be somewhat okay and the man up above was looking over me. Thanks for the messages and everyone checking in, it means a lot.” 

Is this the last time we see Sexton on the Kawasaki? Speaking before the crash to Lewis Phillips, Sexton admitted his ghost ride in the Hangtown was the result of six months of frustration building up, saying he was just riding around, in very similar quotes to Jorge Prado last year. It looks like the intelligent Spaniard was 100% correct and more people should have believed him.

Sexton commented BEFORE the bike ended his weekend: “So I obviously had a rough first moto. I got hit two turns to go, went on the ground again. Webb. He got me back for San Diego. So yeah, I was frustrated, but  just, yeah, not comfortable. I was just kind of riding around, to be honest out there. I mean, I’m riding as fast as I can, but it’s not even close to my pace, and I just came back. I lost my cool, definitely wasn’t very professional with me, and it wasn’t like a good look.

“It’s just been a lot of build up to get to that point. I’ve been trying to suppress it, suppress it, and it just came out. And yeah, I got caught in my chain, getting through my washer to put my bike back, and I just left the clutch out. I mean, everyone thinks I just ghost-rode it into the semi, but I really just like, it went like three feet in front of me and just fell over it. And I didn’t ghost ride it into Garrett.

“Garrett was not as close to me. So, a lot of speculation on what happened. I just, honestly, I just left my clutch out, left it there, and it wasn’t. I mean, that’s obviously not the right move. I felt bad about it after I cooled down, but it’s just a lot of frustration building up, and it finally came to a peak there.”