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A Lawrence has yet to lose a moto through five rounds of the Pro Motocross Championship and now the brothers have swapped the points lead once again after Hunter’s dominate 2-1 performance at RedBud on Saturday.
He didn’t “win” the first moto, but it had to feel like a win as he tracked down Jorge Prado and then his brother, Jett.
Late in the moto, Hunter managed to do what really no one has done: catch and pass Jett and put a gap on him. The moto win was undeniably going to Hunter until he went down on the final lap, handing the moto win to Jett.
After the moto, the TV cameras caught both Jett and Hunter visibly upset, but after the race Hunter said he was happy he was able to catch and pass his brother even if he didn’t get the moto win.
“Gee, how many people have tracked down Jett and made the pass and put a gap on him? That in itself, I was extremely happy with,” said Hunter post-race. “To have “won” the moto [first moto] and the thing that happened, I thought the bike stopped but a bunch of sand got blocked in the chain guide. On the live broadcast you could hear me get into the corner and get on the gas and then the rear wheel just stopped and cut out. That’s just the conditions were so damn tough. It could have happened to anyone with how deep, how heavy, factory 450 and second gear is lugging in a majority of the corners.”
In the second moto, it was very much the same from Hunter, as he came from the back to catch and pass Prado and take the moto win and overall. With Jett making very uncharacteristic mistakes in the moto and finishing fifth, Hunter holds a three-point lead in the championship heading into Southwick this weekend.
“I was super gutted after that first moto, I felt like I did everything right and to not get that win was a bummer,” he said. “I was like, ‘I got to make it right in the second one and go out and do it.’ I didn’t get the best start but just kind of let it come to me, the track was extremely difficult this weekend. It was like, no flow, I don’t even know how to describe it. It was sandy, sloppy, muddy, hard packed, slippery everything in one. It was tricky.
“It was probably the coolest RedBud for me,” he continued. “It was July fourth instead of it being on Friday or Sunday in years past, it is also America’s 250th birthday, man it’s epic.”
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