INTERVIEW
AUSTIN FORKNER
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really don't care what coast I do.
It doesn't matter. If I'm ready and
my speed's there I would just
as soon go ahead and do West
Coast and just get it started early
so it gives me more time to get
ready for outdoors. If I'm not
ready, then obviously go to East
and work on whatever I need to
work on.
"I like supercross; it's good.
It's technical. There's not re-
ally room for mistakes. I've had
some crashes in supercross
because if you mess up, the
consequences are bigger. You
can't mistime a rhythm. You got
to make sure you're pretty dialed
in the whoops. But as I'm getting
bigger and stronger, I feel like
that helps through the whoops,
and just becoming a better rider
helps me with all the timing and
stuff like the rhythm sections.
Now I'm pretty much able to just
go out on a track and get the
rhythms dialed and everything
within a couple laps. At least the
last time I rode supercross that's
how it was. So I think every-
thing's going good. It's going to
be about getting good starts in
supercross, I think. So definitely
that and just riding smooth laps."
As you can image, Forkner
was a top prospect coming out
of amateur ranks and every team
wanted him, but he ended up
staying on green and with his
long-time sponsor Fox.
"It [Pro Circuit] is definitely
one of the most prestigious
teams as far as 250s go. I had
a few people talking to me back
around Loretta's [2015]. It was a
pretty big decision to go with Pro
Circuit. I'd been riding Fox cloth-
ing already, and then after Pro
Circuit signed with Fox—I was
most likely going to sign with Pro
Circuit anyway because the bike
was great, I was getting along
with everybody on the team
really well—so it just made sense
to go with them. And then after
Fox signed with them, that was
just that much better."
Forkner has been riding Ka-
wasakis for most of his career.
"Since 2010 when I was on
80s. I'll be with them for a while
and hopefully I can get some
good results in that time, get
Forkner nabbed his
first career moto win at
Washougal. A 10-1 gave
him second overall,
now he's aiming for
first overall.
