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Open Mic: Heartbreak

March 11, 2024, 4:45pm
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“The weekend, it was tough,” said Yarrive Konsky, owner of the Firepower Honda team. “Everyone worked really hard and we….came up short. It’s difficult. I’m sorry for our fans and our sponsors, and most of all I’m sorry for Max.”

It was the little team that could. Yarrive Konsky, an Australian who has owned and operated one of the most successful race teams in his home country, has been taking on America with his Firepower Honda outfit for the last few seasons. With the help of Team Manager Martin Davalos and the Millsaps Training Facility, the team put in solid results, then really struck gold last year by bringing British veteran Max Anstie back into the 250SX East Region, where he won a race and took third in the standings. Plus, Max delivered the WSX and Australian Supercross Championships, continuing to build confidence and speed.

Off-season hype said Max was flying at the test track, even against the powerful Monster Energy Yamaha Star Racing outfit, which often shares practice motos and tracks with the Firepower team.

In a wild start to this year’s Monster Energy Supercross campaign, Max led the standings early, despite just 2-6-8 results. But he was the fastest qualifier at 250SX east round four in Birmingham, backing up those speed claims we heard so much buzz about in the preseason. Unfortunately, he was again mired in traffic with bad starts in his heat and the main event, and then his bike failed completely. Anstie went from leading the standings to eighth, now 21 off the lead.

Konsky went to Instagram to pour out the hurt.

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“Everyone puts in a selfless amount of work to make us competitive and we’re competing against teams with unlimited recourses and budget. But…I feel like we’ve let our fans, and sponsors, and Max, down. My riders, they’re everything to me and they come first. Most people don’t know, but I live in my shop and my savings have gone to compete in America. I have no place to be there. I don’t come from wealth and I give everything I’ve got to be competitive. When I sign a rider I give them my word I’d give them everything I’ve got to make sure  they come first. A small team with a limited budget qualified first on the weekend but quickly we didn’t finish the final. It’s been really hard.

Anstie came into Birmingham with the points lead.
Anstie came into Birmingham with the points lead. Align Media
Anstie in action.
Anstie in action. Align Media

“I don’t want anyone to think one of our mechanics or technicians or people involved in our program was at fault. It was an OEM part that we also run in our practice bikes that failed. We’ve run it for the last two years. It’s difficult. We do our due diligence. So many people have reached out and said don’t be so hard on your self. Ferrari don’t finish. Mercedes don't finish F1 races. MotoGP teams don’t finish. Sometimes things fail. But I can’t dismiss this. It’s hard. It’s hard. Especially when you feel so responsible for your rider. We’ll learn from this and try to be better. We don’t know how to quit. We don’t. I feel blessed to have the opportunities that we get. I have faith in everyone around me and all of our mechanics and our riders. We wouldn’t be where we were today—and I’m talking everyone—if the first time they fell they didn’t get back up. I don’t think anyone expected us to have a red plate, to have a race win last year, to finish third in the championship, to have a podium in the 450 class [with Justin Brayton at Houston in 2021], and that’s because of the amazing and thankless people who have helped us. But this one has hit me. And not because we lost the points lead. That has happened to me many times in the last 25 years. It hurt me because there are many people that rely on me and I feel like I let those people down. I don’t want to come across with any ego. It’s remarkable and humbling because what we’re achieving anyone can achieve. The greatest gift of opportunity is being able to give to others. Our small team of courageous selfless people have one goal in mind, and the greatest gift is that we line up every weekend, and our Honda 250 that we literally built in a shed was the fastest qualifier. And Coty Schock, all credit to him, he’s also a privateer and he won a heat race. It just goes to show you can do anything if you work hard.

"I just wanted to communicate with everyone. I hate it when people don’t come out and defend those that they love and tell the truth. So, Max is doing a wonderful job and our team is doing a wonderful job and we’ll come back this weekend. I bloody love this job.”

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250SX East Standings - 2024

PositionRider Hometown Points
1Tom Vialle Tom Vialle Avignon, France France 172
2Haiden Deegan Haiden Deegan Temecula, CA United States 168
3Coty Schock Coty Schock Dover, DE United States 132
4Pierce Brown
Pierce Brown
Sandy, UT United States 131
5Max Anstie
Max Anstie
Newbury, England, United Kingdom United Kingdom 125
6Cameron McAdoo
Cameron McAdoo
Sioux City, IA United States 120
7Chance Hymas Chance Hymas Pocatello, ID United States 116
8Jalek Swoll
Jalek Swoll
Belleview, FL United States 116
9Daxton Bennick Daxton Bennick Morganton, NC United States 111
10Seth Hammaker Seth Hammaker Bainbridge, PA United States 95
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