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If Australia are going to three-peat at the Motocross of Nations in Ernee, France later this year it will reportedly without Hunter and Jett Lawrence.
In an appearance on Steve Matthes’ PulpMX Show on Monday, Hunter, who has been a massive part of Australia’s back-to-back wins a the historic event, said the brothers are “taking a break” from off-season events this year.
“We’re electing to take this year kind of off and especially for the team, you know, it’s been six, seven years that our off-seasons have been two weeks at the most,” he said. “So, our team needs it. We feel like we need it. And it’s not forever, but just for this year. You know, there’s no Paris Supercross or AUS-X Open. You know, it’s just, no overseas events.”
Prior to the Lawrence brothers winning the event at Matterley Basin (England) in 2024 and at Ironman Raceway (USA) last year, the Australia team had never won the event.
This isn’t forever though, Hunter explained, noting that the brothers will return to compete for their country in the future.
“It’s not, like I said, forever. We’ll be back at it next year. But, yeah, it’s just I think it’s fair to our team, you know, all these guys that make up our team they’re there every weekend in our regular season, which is 31 weekends of the year, they’re away from their family and kids. And then you throw in weeks when they come to Florida for testing, you know, that isn’t part of the racing season. They’re also away from their family and kids. I think we owe it to them as well to care about them and go, ‘You know what, we’re just gonna have a bit of a break, give you guys a break.’ Hopefully everyone can take the month of October off. That would be huge.”
The 2026 FIM Motocross of Nations is scheduled for Oct 2-4 at the Ernée Circuit in France.
