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CHASE SEXTON
250 MX / 11TH
IMAGE / LANNAN WORDS / MATTINGLY DESIGN / TILLS
>> The woes of rookie growing pains can be that of surges, almost drowning a young competitor if he isn’t careful. He must be cognizant, keeping his head afloat, and at all times looking to outrun the storm that tries to overtake him. Chase Sexton has been bitten by the injury bug many-a-time, but the true tenacity of the number 486 gleamed his inner- being, being steadfast enough to grant signage from the Geico Honda Crew; and Muddy Creek was another example of that. After being victim to the disastrous first-turn pileup epidemic that surrounds this place, he had to carve his way through the masses of fellow three-digits and top two-digit professionals. Carving through the berms on the outer lining of the track, he was near bar-dragging status in the left-hander after the tabletop. His vision was scoped, a lazer darting through the lenses of goggles, mimicking the red on his shrouds. He would push to the dyer end, securing fifteenth. Time for redemption, as the holeshot device unclipped the moment he crossed the pad, and his weight shifted to
the rear fender. Banging through the gearbox down the first hill, he was ninth, and moving to eighth quickly by the mistake from Sean Cantrell. Trailing his fellow Geico Gecko, Jeremy Martin, he was studying the veteran with pad and pen in hand, following his lines through the uphill mogul section, a rope lassoed around the waist of the number 6. Fight- ing off the likes of Joey Savatgy for the majority of the moto, he would succumb to his elder, but not without showing him a wheel for the latter portion of the race. Exhausted, yet satisfied, he would cling to the num- ber 17, ending up just behind Colt Nichols at moto’s end, a ninth place giving him eleventh overall.
78 GRITMOTO • JUNE 25, 2017