{"id":146368,"date":"2025-09-16T02:30:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T02:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/146368\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T02:30:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T02:30:11","slug":"hunter-lawrence-makes-450s-close-shimoda-survives-for-250-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/146368\/","title":{"rendered":"Hunter Lawrence Makes 450s Close, Shimoda Survives for 250 Win"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

As for the end of the 450 show, Jett Lawrence<\/a> came back to lead moto two early and get away, with Tomac and Hunter Lawrence<\/a> fighting behind him. Lappers slowed up Jett late, and the Eli\/Hunter battle got to the leader, leading to a close finish. Jett hung on, his 4-1 netting second behind Hunter’s 1-3 and Tomac’s 3-2.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Here’s how the top riders explained it:<\/p>\n

Hunter Lawrence<\/a> \u2013 1st Place \u2013 450SMX
\u00a0\u201cGreat night. [I\u2019m] happy, though it’s weird, it’s like a coincidence, like we’re in the second round over and over. But it’s nice, you know we’re trying to build a house so, fellas, if that bonus could hit Monday that would be wonderful. A little money always helps, so yeah we’d like some nice things and they cost money [laughs]. So, big thanks to the team, everyone that’s helped out, yeah, [I\u2019m] stoked, what a good night.\u201d \u2013\u00a0Hunter Lawrence<\/a>, joking around on the podium when it was pointed out that he also won Playoff 2 in 2024 with (1-3)\u00a0moto\u00a0scores.<\/p>\n

Jett Lawrence<\/a> \u2013 2nd Place \u2013 450SMX
\u201c[Leading the second\u00a0moto] I was pretty calm, and then in the sand section there was a lapper on the inside. And it’s just as bad following in the sand because it just goes everywhere, it blinds you, so you just like, \u2018Oh, I’m gonna go outside.\u2019 And there was another lapper there, and he was cruising; he was [heeding] the blue flags and getting out of the way. So, I got screwed in that. The two seconds I had [over Tomac] shrunk really quickly. And then that last, like lap or two, was hectic. I was gassing it, I was sliding out in certain spots, and it was a wild last two laps. But we\u2019re happy to turn it around; I definitely wasn\u2019t going to suck on the start then like I did\u00a0the first one, so I was glad\u00a0to execute a good start and I\u2019m happy with P2 especially how the first [moto] went.\u201d\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Jett Lawrence<\/a><\/p>\n

Eli Tomac<\/a> \u2013 3rd Place \u2013 450SMX
\u201cThat was some good racing there, just good, fun racing. Of course I would like to finish up top. I did what I could. I felt like I rode better that\u00a0moto, busted out some good lines, but once again not quite enough. So, we\u2019ll keep pushing. Yes, I\u2019m down 16 [points], which is a little unfortunate, but it is what it is now. We\u2019re in the mix, we\u2019re in the hunt, so we\u2019ll take it to Vegas. Thank you to Monster Energy Yamaha Star Racing for the day and yeah, it was good.\u201d\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Eli Tomac<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As for the end of the 450 show, Jett Lawrence came back to lead moto two early and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146369,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,52492,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-146368","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-motosport","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-motor","11":"tag-motor-sports","12":"tag-motosport","13":"tag-motosports","14":"tag-racer-x-motocross-magazine-supercross-dirt-bike-mx-racerx-illustrated-dirtbike-motorcycle-racing-freestyle-video-news","15":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146368\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}