Chase Sexton On His Amazing Start at San Francisco

Red Bull KTM’s Chase Sexton got arguably the greatest start in the history of Monster Energy Supercross in the 450SX main event San Francisco. He timed the gate perfectly and led every lap en route to his first win with KTM.

After the race, he talked about it in the post-race press conference:

“The start was… honestly, it’s almost like a feeling that you have,” said Sexton. “It could sound stupid, but I thought it flinched and I honestly just went and I had a feeling that it was going to drop and it did. So, yeah, it was definitely a good start. I’ve done it a few times now, but you don’t get away with them that many times. Came into the first turn and I don’t know, I just hit like a really big soft spot coming in and I didn’t really expect it and it almost threw me over the bars and then Kenny went around me. I didn’t see what happened to him. Then he was just sitting there. I didn’t know, I thought he was letting me by. [Laughs] He felt bad for me! [Laughs] I was lucky to get in the lead and from there I just kind of set sail.”

And check out this angle we posted on the Vurb IG.