Seattle, WA - Over the
weekend DNA Shred Stix/Star Racing/Yamaha came away
with its most successful race since the team’s inception six years ago.
Seeing both #48 Max Anstie and #20 Broc Tickle
achieve new things for the first time in their career that the industry has
really taken notice of. Clear skies greeted the 51,442 fans that visited Qwest
Field in Seattle, Washington for the penultimate round of the Lites West AMA
Supercross Series.
The night show began with both the rookie and Tickle slated into Heat race #2, Anstie got the best of starts leading the field through
turn one. This is when the big highlight all began to come together. Riding at
his best and increasing his lead every single lap, Anstie
rode flawless and was uncontested. In doing so, Anstie
went on to win his first ever Heat race fresh off his hip injury. Also riding
in a dramatic fashion, Tickle remounted after being taken down in a first turn
pileup to come all the way up to a 4th place finish.
The 15 lap main event fired out of the gate, and once again Anstie
was high up in the field, as well as Tickle after the first turn sitting in 3rd
and 5th. Unfortunately, in the second turn the leader went down and Max had
nowhere to go other than the ground to. Upfront, By
the end of lap one Tickle had secured 2nd and was applying heavy pressure to
the leader. Once Lap three was in circulation, it was easy to see how strong
Broc was, and on this very lap he executed a pass into 1st. Now the leader,
Tickle’s confidence kicked in, and he bolted taking the ridiculously
treacherous track and making it look easy. Meanwhile, after not being able to
restart his bike for some time, Max was nearly a half of a track length behind
the second to last place rider in the early stages of the race. However, very
methodically and fast, by the halfway mark the combination of those two things
stated, enabled him to capitalize on other competitor’s mistakes. Lap
eight saw the Yamaha pilot takeover 12th, and then on the very next lap he made
a clean pass into 11th. At this point Tickle showed strength by finding his
lines and breaking away to a good five second plus lead. With three laps
remaining, Anstie was still on the charge and had
made it to 10th. Never settling, the rookie prodigy leaped up to 9th in the
closing stages of the race and went on to finish there. Back to Tickle, who took his DNA Shred Stix
Yamaha 250F through its paces in the closing laps. Still riding solid as if he
was a multi time winner, Broc successfully etched his name in the record books
as a Supercross winner!
Star Racing thanks the following companies for their commitment.
DNA Shred Stix, Division 7, Yamaha Motor Corp, FLY
Racing, DNA Energy, NCY, Bell Helmets, Easton ExP,
FMF, Sunstar, Factory Effex,
Dunlop, Enzo, DC Shoes, RK Chains, Yamalube, GYTR, Ride Engineering, Mechanix
Wear, Twin Air, Lightspeed, ARC, Braking, Vortex Ignitions, CP pistons, Web
Cams, ICW, JD Built, Renegade Fuels, Crank Works, Eibach,
EVOMX fuel foam, Met Tec, Champion Tools.