"I just knew that me, Max and
RJ, we're going to probably be
bumping bars," Kitchen said.
"So, I tried to just pick out a
spot. [I] made [the pass] stick
and tried to get away and was
able to just get away enough.
"It was chaos," Kitchen added.
"It was also tough because we
just raced for 14 minutes or
whatever, and then your heart
rate comes down, and you're
kind of a little winded. Overall,
though, I'll take it. I mean, it's not
how I would like to win, but last
weekend I was kind of on the
other side of it, too. It wasn't a
great one, so, yeah, I'll take it."
Hampshire finished on the
podium in third. The Rockstar
there, but it is what it is," Anstie
said. "I was sitting on the line
just thinking, 'I've got two really
good sprinters behind me; this
is not going to be fun for two
laps.'"
"It was a tough situation,"
Anstie added. "I don't know how
I could have blocked and kept
still the speed, that was the
thing. There were a few areas on
the track where I had to block,
but then I was jeopardizing the
next section. I was trying not to
do anything silly, not to throw it
away. In that situation, I could
have sent it and cartwheeled
myself and ended up going
from first to last or not scoring
points."
"I was totally settled into
second," Kitchen said about the
race prior to the restart. "He [An
-
stie] gapped me a lot in the first
seven
or eight minutes, and af-
ter that I felt fairly good. I think
all
three of us just expected to
finish where we were at. It was a
wild turn of events."
Anstie found himself on the
wrong side of the coin after
the late-race restart. With his
six-second lead now gone, the
Monster Energy Star Racing
Yamaha rider was forced to fight
off Kitchen and Hampshire after
nearly completing a full main
event. He stuck to his familiar
lines but fell victim to Kitchen.
"I was in the worst situation
ROUND 6 / FEBRUARY 15, 2025
FORD FIELD / DETROIT, MICHIGAN
SUPERCROSS I MONSTER ENERGY AMA SUPERCROSS / SUPERMOTOCROSS WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP
P70
RJ Hampshire rebounded
from last week with a
solid podium.
