The 2025 World Supercross Championship (WSX) has been a convincing season so far for Max Anstie – paired with Team GSM – who continued his perfect SX2 winning-streak at the Australian GP on Saturday night. MotoOnline caught up with the Monster Energy Yamaha Star Racing team regular in the aftermath of his success on the Gold Coast.

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Max, you’ve won a lot in Australia, and that continued at WSX this weekend. That’s got to feel good?

Yeah, I love it over here. I got to explore a little bit more this time around – I spent some time in Noosa as JB [Justin Brayton] hooked that one up. My wife and little guy went up to the Great Barrier Reef, and it was just really awesome. This is one of the perks of doing this championship, being able to explore the world and bring the family along, it makes it a lot of fun at this point in my career. And then yeah, the results in Australia seem to work for me too, so overall I’m stoked.

Take me through the night – three wins, it’s really working for you at the moment…

My mindset, actually, in the Superpole was, I wanna legit try to be in the top four in the 450s. I was like, ‘I’ve been a second off each time’. Today, I was looking more at the 450 times, and I was like, ‘I wanna be within a second.’ And I knew I wasn’t actually there after time training, so I tried to send my lap a little more, and obviously I sent it off the track. So that was kind of my mindset for that. It was like, I really wanted to see if I could be… Because that’s the most legit comparison, because you do your lap, and they basically go straight out after you. And so far in the Superpoles, they’ve been blowing my doors off in a way. And I know I’m kinda just playing little games for myself with that.

Is it just like a side quest for Max Anstie at this point, to do that?

It’s more of like, I know I need to be better. I need to still be improving, and not just satisfied with where I’m at. I want to keep pushing and to run the pace in the States. The top guys in America, they’d be able to run my pace. And it’s like, I need to find more. I need to see if I can push more.

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Three different tracks now, is this the closest one that resembles what you’re used to?

Yeah, this felt more like a test track, and it kind of cut up like a test track. It wasn’t super rutty or deep, and then the temperature was too, we do get heat like this.

Lastly, this season wasn’t overly kind to you in the US. You had great glimpses, so how important is it to finish a year like this, to set you up well heading into the off-season?

Oh, 100 percent. For me, at this point in my career, I have a great mentor in JB, and he’s the king of these off-season races. I was still nervous – you know, everyone is talking about the perfect season, and I’m thinking about messing it up! It’s great for me to be in this situation because you don’t get all of this when you’re just grinding laps out at home. I’ve got to…not learn the noise, because I am good with it, it’s more preparing for next year, because my goal is to win the American championship, but you have to stay mentally solid each weekend. This year I was good, but in Birmingham, when I broke my leg, it was my fault. We had meetings, and it was like, ‘jump the quads, you’ve got to show these boys,’ and f**k me, I cased the thing and broke my leg. But it’s like, ‘mate, did I need to? No.’ So it’s more about getting the job done and trying to execute. But we are preparing well for next year while chasing the WSX title, for sure.