[the mx addict]

"A lack of testing time meant that Anstie rode Ferris’ 2013 YZ250F at Qatar but Team Manager Steve Dixon insists the 2014 YZ250F will be even better and faster once dialled. Considering the potency of that carburetted package over the past three years then it is scary news for the MX2 field. "

 

Alors, ça, c’est la meilleure !

[ganjaman]

 Pas très étonnant, elle marchait déjà fort l’an dernier la Cosworth, cf les départs de Ferris. Quant à attendre Maxou à ce niveau, même pas en rêve, surtout en première manche. Dans la seconde, il avait plus de mal à partir, même face à Convington. Preuve une nouvelle fois, aussi, de la faiblesse de ce plateau MX2. 

[baba 30]

La preuve !! J’avais bien cru voir un modele 2013 à l’ecran mais je ne savait pas pour quelle raison , maintenant je sais 😉

 

[alexisp2005]

En attendant vraiment dommage pour lui sur ce gp, car il la tenait la victoire. D’ailleurs elle a eu quoi au final sa mob ?

[the mx addict]

Hey Steve (Dixon), did Max race Qatar on a 2013 Yamaha?

“Yes it was the 2013 bike – Why? because we have a good set up for these races and did not want to rush the 2014 till it is fully tested, but the potential is higher with the 2014, the standard Yam 2014 is fantastic and such a high base that a lot has to be done to get it considerably better. We have it ready but just need more time on the mapping and data side.

We only decided on the Sunday of Hawkstone to miss it and go test the 2013, then he loved the engine power and we did two days testing on suspension and the took the bike on the plane!

The first race really was as a result of a little too much over rev especially on the Quad, Just to let you know an over rev on an F1 car takes 300km off the engine life!

The second race Max genuinely stalled it and then had no energy to kick it correctly but got it going to finish 17th.

We made the right decision and Max is happy, it is the first time he has lead a GP, raced with our team and raced since Leirop, plus he was sick all weekend and was even sick in his helmet on Friday.

For us it is rare to have failure, but we learn’t a lot about Max this weekend, and its a double edge sword that we play, you have to be in it to win it! so if we had achieved two top 5′s he would have had points but now he has had a taste and he liked being in front, but to be in front you need a fast bike, t was just bad for us that it was in the limelight! We can take the rough with the smooth and move on to Thailand where he will be up for it again, I think we woke people up again and showed we can get riders to the front, it is not just a coincidence….

Max is still only 20, he has been on three factory GP teams and written off. We are here to prove the critics wrong and get a Union Jack flying on the top step again.

People have to understand the rider is part of a team and that team all felt the same heartache that Max felt, the reason we do this job is to win and every part of the track the riders ride we are there with him."

 

[the mx addict]

C’est exactement ça.

😉

[the mx addict]

"Obviously shit happens in motocross and the winner is the rider who crosses the line first, but if ever a rider deserved to have gone 1-1 in a weekend, it was Max Anstie in Qatar. In the first moto he led until the 13th of 17 laps, before his bike died whilst he was a few seconds clear. Then in the second race, he was once again well clear of the field on the 13th lap when a rock got caught in the chain, causing him to stall, and his hopes of a first moto win disappeared once more. We caught up with Max after what ended up an extremely disappointing weekend…

Gutting weekend for you I guess. What can you really say about it?

We’ve been working hard the last six months but we come in strong. Obviously my goal was just to go out and do my laps and put myself in a good position. I was really, really ill yesterday, like I was spewing my guts up all over the place. I don’t think I’ve ever been so sick in my whole life. I felt really horrible yesterday, but today I felt good. I’ve been better. But it is what it is. We’ve worked hard and I was pushing hard. At the end of the day I just went out and done my laps like I do in practice. Everyone’s worked hard, the team, Steve, everyone. We’re in a good position. We’re in a position where we can go racing now. I think that’s what I’ve been searching for, it’s what we’ve wanted for the last few years. I’ve been training my ass off for the last six months, for the last five years, banging my head against the wall, going back to the drawing board. At the end of the day no one’s come from the bottom of where I’ve come from. So we’re going to be strong. It won’t be long. I’ll be on top. That’s it, really.

When you did realize during the day that you had the speed to win the races? You were making it look easy, to be honest.

I realized when I was about 10 years old and I raced Jeffrey in the sand. I know I’m the fastest. He knows I’m the best. There’s no one that can do things that I can do. Who else jumped the quad? I know it’s not by chance, but I’ve worked so hard throughout my whole life, throughout the last four, five, six years when I’ve been banging my head against the wall. It’s only made me stronger and I always knew. I was just going out there and raced. That’s all I do. I’m a racer. I just went out and raced. That was it. And that’s what I’m going to do from here for the next 17 rounds. I’m coming out to go racing.

Unfortunately you only scored the four points after leading so much of the races. What does that mean for your championship? Or are you just taking it one race at a time now and the championship if it gets a little bit closer, it gets a bit closer?

Everyone’s going to have bad races and DNF’s. At the end of the day all I can do is go out and race, and race my laps. That’s what I did today and whether I’m handed these cards then that’s that. I will go do the exact same thing next weekend. There’s nothing I can do about it now. We can go and make ourselves feel good for this next weekend and go again. That’s all we can do.

Do you know the specifics on what happened in both the races? Why the bike stopped?

In the second one it was my mistake. I was thick, I was stupid. Like yesterday, to be honest, I was stupid. I don’t know whether I drank some of their milk or something up here. It was my fault. I’m the thick one. So the blame’s on me for that. For me having food poisoning or whatever, that’s the blame on me. I just thought to myself when I was riding around I didn’t put all this hard work in for it to be screwed up like something like that. The first moto I landed a bit heavy on the quad a couple times. I might have displaced something. But second moto was just my mistake. I don’t know whether a rock got caught in the chain or something and it just stopped me, causing to me to stall. It is what it is. I haven’t raced since Lierop last year, and I led a lot of laps this weekend and I made passes and stepped it up. Get back on the grind again and go to work next weekend.

Are you glad that there’s a race right away and you don’t have to wait to build upon this?

Any day of the week, anywhere, any track, I will do amazing things. That’s what I do. That’s why I’m where I am. I’ve got a great group of people around me. The guys, the bike, the team, everyone now is here to win. So it doesn’t matter to me. Put me on the starting line, I’ll go race again right now."

 

Modeste, le Max, avec ça… Sans doute une façon de se mettre la pression… Maintenant, la barre fixée est haute, très haute !

 

[the mx addict]

"Max Anstie rode the Grand Prix of his career and deserved so much more. While he did go DNF-DNF, the British rider looked brilliant and gives some hope that he has finally reached his potential in the Grand Prix series. While the bike broke twice how about the incredible record for the Bike It Yamaha team…" (MX Large)

 

Très en forme, l’ami MX Geoff… Rien que 2 énormes erreurs en 4 lignes… La grande classe !

[ganjaman]

 Wah ! C’est tout ce qui m’est venu en lisant l’ITW d’Anstie. Entre Herlings, Ferrandis et lui, c’est pas le championnat MX2, c’est le Mondial de la pastèque… Décidément, je préfère vraiment regarder vers les USA et les ITW de Ciancarulo. Les trois euros cumulés n’ont même pas son QI. 

[tmv]

KABOUM!!!

Bon ben encore plus qu’avant, allez Romain! 🙂

https://www.motoverte.com/site/febvre-je-pensais-etre-4e-du-gp–77428.html

[Anonyme]

 je le pensais pas aussi allumé que son père le jeune Anstie!

[dilhat]

 Je la trouve plutôt amusante l’ITW du Brit’… on se plaint d’avoir des gonzes tout lisse qui n’ont rien à raconter, et là, le mec te lâche une bombe à faire passer CP pour un mec humble, et pof, ça gêne !

Alors je dis pas, c’est peut-être pas avec Herlings, Ferrandis et Anstie qu’on va progresser en philo, mais s’ils sont sur la piste au diapason de leurs déclarations (et pour l’instant ça donne l’impression que c’est le cas), on devrait passer un bon moment à les suivre cettte saison, non ?

 

 

[ganjaman]

 Non. Tout va rapidement rentrer dans l’ordre. Go Romain Febvre !!!

[the mx addict]

Pas de Anstie en Thailande ce week-end, suite aux blessures contractées à Losail. Retour prévu en Argentine…

[the mx addict]

https://racerxonline.com/2017/09/29/life-of-max-anstie-episode-1

[Auteur]

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