Queensland brothers Jett and Hunter Lawrence have finished first and second after dominating the Super-Motocross World Championship.<\/p>\n
It is Jett’s third consecutive super-motocross championship win, securing him $US1 million ($AU1.5 million) in prize money, while Hunter’s second place netted him $US500,000 ($AU758,000).<\/p>\n
The three-round series was raced by the best indoor and outdoor riders from around the world on a hybrid-style track, which concluded at its final stop at Las Vegas on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Jett, 22, said it was a challenging weekend after winning the first race of the day and finishing second in race two.<\/p>\n
“[In] the first moto, I was able to dig deep and get the win \u2014 it saved me for sure,” he said.<\/p>\n
“In the second moto, I got another bad start and the boys were riding well. Hunter rode well, which made it hard on me.<\/p>\n
“It’s awesome to go one-two with Hunter.”<\/p>\n
Just six competition points separated the Sunshine Coast brothers heading into the weekend.<\/p>\n
Hunter, 26, narrowly missed out on the championship and would have secured the title had Jett not overtaken Eli Tomac to take second place in the closing laps of race two.<\/p>\n
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Just six championship points separated Jett (middle) and Hunter (left) heading into the weekend.\u00a0 (Supplied: Honda Racing Corporation)<\/p>\n
Hunter said he was “gutted” by the result.<\/p>\n
“I did everything I could in that one \u2014 I gave 110 per cent every time I went on the track and I just came up short,” he said.<\/p>\n
“It’s got nothing to do with it being my brother, it could’ve been anyone else and I still would’ve had the same reaction.<\/p>\n
“Eli Tomac was on my butt the whole moto and Jett was edging closer, and I think the yellow [safety] flag for Chase [Sexton] \u2014 I hope he is OK \u2014 I think that maybe helped throw a dog a bone.<\/p>\n
“Once I saw him [Jett] get Eli I just wanted to pull into the pits.”<\/p>\n
Sibling rivalry<\/p>\n
It was Jett’s 10th American Motorcycling Association title since his debut in the 250cc class at just 16 years old in 2020.<\/p>\n
He said he had mixed emotions after beating his brother.<\/p>\n
“I’m a little confused in the mind right now, battling emotions of wanting to win this but then obviously HJ today, he deserved that win,” he said.<\/p>\n
“He executed two really good starts, and the guy is battling with a cold right now.<\/p>\n
“I’m bummed to see him sad because he worked really hard \u2014 we both worked hard.”<\/p>\n
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Hunter (left) and Jett (right) will represent Australia at the Motocross of Nations next month.\u00a0 (Supplied: Instagram)<\/p>\n
After accepting the trophy, Jett paid tribute to his brother.<\/p>\n
“This could’ve been his first 450cc championship but I wanted it really bad as well,” he said.<\/p>\n
“It’s difficult because you want to see your brother do really well and it’s difficult competing against him.<\/p>\n
“I just told him he rode well, and I said that I was sorry. I don’t really know what to say, I’m sorry.”<\/p>\n
Motocross of Nations<\/p>\n
The brothers will now look to defend their crowns at the International Motorcycling Federation’s Motocross of Nations race next month.<\/p>\n
They will reunite with Kyle Webster after securing team Australia’s first title in 2024.<\/p>\n
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Team Australia have a chance to go back-to-back this year after winning their first title in 2024. (Supplied: Motorcycling Australia)<\/p>\n
Australian team manager Michael Byrne said he was optimistic.<\/p>\n
“A year on, I’m delighted to welcome Jett, Hunter and Kyle back into the fold and congratulate them on their individual performances so far in 2025,” he said.<\/p>\n
“We’ve already proven we can succeed on the big stage, and I’m confident team Australia has the work rate, temperament and speed to do it all again.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Queensland brothers Jett and Hunter Lawrence have finished first and second after dominating the Super-Motocross World Championship. It…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":160118,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[106269,106268,64,63,106267,106266,914,71960,71959,2623,106265,71958,806,805,803,804,85,106263,106264,2086],"class_list":["post-160117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-250cc","tag-450cc","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-chase-sexton","tag-eli-tomac","tag-honda","tag-hunter-lawrence","tag-jett-lawrence","tag-las-vegas","tag-lawrence-brothers","tag-motocross","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-sports","tag-super-motocross","tag-supercross","tag-world-championship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160117","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=160117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}