Even with the appendix injury, Anstie made all the races this year. The 33-year-old said next year he wants to clean up the small stuff and really be a title contender.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt’s been great to make every race,\u201d Anstie said. \u201cThat’s the goal, but I’ve really missed a lot of time in the week. I came in really strong for Anaheim 1, and then it obviously kind of went a little downhill, got my appendix out after Seattle. \u2026I’ve definitely lost a little intensity this middle end of the season, so to get on the podium tonight was fantastic because it’s tough, man. The class is stacked. The riders are all going really fast, and you’ve got to put it all together.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThere’s one thing to be there, but there’s another thing to be there and firing on all cylinders,\u201d he continued. \u201cSo, pleased. I can take away a lot of positives from this season, obviously coming in strong, settings, set up, how I worked through things. But I definitely think next year if I can eliminate the niggly weird things, which, I mean, it kind of just an appendix is an appendix, you can’t, can’t really plan for that or move around that, but it is what it is. And I think if I can put all those pieces of the puzzle together, hopefully we’ll be in a situation where we’re fighting for the title come here next year.\u201d<\/p>\n
Anstie is looking forward to the AMA Pro Motocross Championship, having missed the first half of the 2024 season (while switching to Star Yamaha that summer) and missing all of 2025 with a broken leg. Unfortunately, he did not get a ton of testing in due to his appendix surgery.<\/p>\n
\u201cI’ve done a few days, and I felt really good, honestly, when I did a few days,\u201d Anstie said. \u201cBut like I said, so when I first got my appendix out, that was when we had the big break\u2026Had to miss the whole three weeks. I kind of got back on the bike right before Birmingham, did Birmingham, and then St. Louis, but then I had to have another two weeks off just from little things, complications from it all.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Even with the appendix injury, Anstie made all the races this year. The 33-year-old said next year he…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":671625,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-671624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=671624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671624\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/671625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=671624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=671624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=671624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}