So first thing I think about any time a rider gets injured, the first question is, OK, when can I ride? What's the time frame? So what are you thinking about? Do you think realistically we won't see you until 2027 at this point?

Yeah, I mean, it's going to be hard to come back any sooner than that.

My goal is to be back on the bike October-ish.

So, yeah, obviously that's past SMX.

I would love to do some off-season races this year to kind of get back into the swing of things.

Yeah, still don't know what that's going to look like, but yeah, I'm excited to get back on the bike.

But with an injury like this, it's not like a broken arm where like, oh, it's four weeks and you're back.

So does that maybe change, as you mentioned this year, give you an opportunity to get some gate drops in a situation that you really haven't done in the past? That's something you're thinking about?

But even that's aggressive rehab.

Yeah, and plus, like, your ACL is supported by... your quad, your hamstring, your calves.

There's a lot of things that you can strengthen around your knee to make your ACL.

Say that a lot of people have torn ACLs and they don't even know it, and they live with them.

As long as you have a strong lower body, you can get away with not having it.

So also, it's the same for when you're trying to come back.

if you're strong in certain like glute, hamstring, quad, um, calf, like all that stuff plays a part.

All

Maybe I'm so

relaxed right now.

That's better.

Let's do that.

But yeah, the ACL.

acl no i didn't think it was i didn't know if i i mean i never tore my acl so i didn't know what it felt like but i did feel like there was something not right with my with my knee like it was kind of wobbly and kind of shifting um my dad and everyone definitely thought i was on they thought for sure i was just being dramatic all right when i got the acl it was like oh shit that's not good um Yeah, obviously not ideal that the ACL was torn because that is the longest one to yield.

But as far as, I mean, for me, I'm going to be ready for 2017.

Seeing it worse, yeah.

um,

I just, yeah, not comfortable.

And there's just kind of riding around to be honest out there.

I mean, I'm riding as fast as I can, but it is not even close to my pace.

And I just came back and I lost my cool.

Definitely wasn't, wasn't very professional of me.

And it wasn't like, uh, a good look.

So can we have a, I don't know, Can we have something to shut that up as well? To be

Yep

... subpar.

Um-Um, heat race win.

I felt good in my heat race.

I struggled in the whoops all day, but I knew if I could get halfway through the main and start jumping after that, that I have a good shot at winning, especially with what was going on.

I knew ...

Obviously, Hunter fell, but I think he was gonna be the one that pushed the pace of the, of the race, obviously.

Yeah.

pages do the Supercross bingo.

No, no, no.

Well, maybe it was a bingo card where...

There's, like, different slots you can kind of pick.

Yeah.

And it said Chase Sexton top five.

And someone says, I've never been so questionable for...

So I didn't know if you were in denial at that point, or...

Uh, comfy level, eh

ehNot, not as good as my, my mood level.

But, um, no, we're, uh, we're trying to get better at ...

The team was in Florida this week testing.

We ... [laughs] I rode, like, two hours on the bike on, on Tuesday, I think.

We tested till, like, 6:45, so hopefully it pays off.

It's hard to tell, like, in practice, but, um, yeah, we'll see.

Finally, 81 to now, where's the biggest progress? And actually opposite, where, where, where hasn't there been progress?

say i'm good at riding like a dirt jumper or bmx jumps i'm decent

But if you look at somebody that's really good, like one of my buddies, he actually works for Harrison's Mechanic.

He works for PRMX.

He is unreal.

He can backflip.

I had to stay out of the foam pit last night.

I wanted to flip a little bit.

Oh, my

So how does that, how does that feel right now? Like not having that.

It honestly feels like I'm, like, a rookie again.

Like, it feels like I'm kind of, like, coming back into, like, when I started racing in the 250 class.

I feel like I'm kind of, like, trying to reinsert myself as, like, a guy that can win races and fight for titles, which I think is actually...

It's kind of fun, because when you...

I've been fortunate enough to race for championships pretty consistently.

I mean, obviously, I've only won two, but from the last three years on, I've been pretty consistent.

It's got to be like so close to where you want it to be.