EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) – El Pasoan Tre Fierro is getting into his fourth season competing within the Monster Vitality AMA Supercross Championship, racing towards one of the best dirt-bike riders on this planet.
“It’s one thing particular as a result of lots of people from the entire world come to race on this sequence. It’s the Supercross World Sequence they usually know quite a lot of riders come from different nations they usually need to compete as a result of they know that is the head of the game,” Fierro mentioned.
KTSM caught up with Fierro as soon as once more, after he participated within the third spherical of the 2024 Supercross Championship in San Diego.
The Supercross Championship is split into a number of rounds, held at out of doors stadiums and domes throughout the nation, main as much as a closing championship spherical.
Fierro and his group are backed by native sponsors however stays an “underdog” as he competes towards the bigger and higher funded manufacturing unit groups like Honda, Pink Bull and Rockstar, a battle of David vs. Goliath.
“One of many hardest issues is to get a aggressive motorbike as a result of they clearly have a much bigger finances and that results in extra unique elements, extra analysis and improvement on the bikes,” Fierro mentioned.
As a younger prospect, Fierro competes within the 250 class. For drivers like him, the aspirations are to someday compete within the premier 450 class and get sponsored by the bigger manufacturing unit groups.
Every class has a closing race on the finish of the evening which is known as the Major Occasion. Solely 22 riders make it to that occasion, after three separate rounds of qualifying. Making it to the Major Occasion is a problem and a measure of progress for drivers like Fierro.
Fierro mentioned within the 50 years of the AMA Supercross Championship, he’s solely one of many two El Pasoans to ever qualify for the Major Occasion of a Supercross spherical, a feat he has completed twice.
Coming into his fourth season, Fierro nonetheless dons the quantity 158, however has his sights on rating within the high 100 drivers this 12 months, in order that he can earn a double-digit quantity subsequent 12 months.
“The following aim for me is to get a nationwide quantity. Being already right here in these races, you’re the better of one of the best. However I feel that’s similar to the subsequent little step I may take to be on the high of the game,” Fierro mentioned.
Fierro will journey to Anaheim, California, subsequent weekend for the fourth spherical of the championship. His sights shall be on qualifying for the subsequent Major Occasion and taking a step nearer to incomes that double-digit quantity.
