{"id":484741,"date":"2026-02-17T01:34:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T01:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/484741\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T01:34:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T01:34:08","slug":"hunter-lawrence-explains-mis-calculated-pass-attempt-on-ken-roczen-at-seattle-sx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/484741\/","title":{"rendered":"Hunter Lawrence Explains Mis-Calculated Pass Attempt on Ken Roczen at Seattle SX"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Lawrence said afterwards during a TV interview he felt like an idiot for making the move. Justin Cooper<\/a> snuck by the two to take the final podium spot but luckily, Lawrence was able to remount and finish fourth place. Roczen took longer to get going (insert your kickstarter jokes here, everyone) and finished tenth, getting lapped at the checkered flag by race winner Eli Tomac<\/a>.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Lawrence leaves round six with the points lead, as his 124 points sit one above Tomac’s 123 points. Roczen sits tied with Cooper Webb<\/a> in third with 113 points, now 11 down on Lawrence.<\/p>\n

Today, he had the following quote in Honda’s post-race release:<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a bittersweet main event. I feel like my riding was really good, but I spun off the gate. I\u2019m not sure 100% why that happened, but after that I was making my way through the pack. At the 10-minute mark, I figured the track out and really got going; I was able to do a lot of the rhythms deep into the main. Then I made my attempted pass on Kenny [Roczen] for third, and we got together. I certainly didn\u2019t intend on taking him out\u2014it was just a crappy racing incident, but not how I wanted the night to go, especially after how I felt. In my perfect world, I would\u2019ve jumped to the inside, got that lane, and then tried to catch Cooper Webb<\/a>. Obviously, it\u2019s cool to still have the red plate\u2014we definitely salvaged some points. With a good start, I feel like it could\u2019ve been a completely different night; I had what it takes to get the win.\u201d<\/p>\n

And team Manager Lars Lindstrom said the following:<\/p>\n

\u201cComing into this weekend, we didn\u2019t have high hopes that the weather would cooperate with us\u2014February in Seattle isn\u2019t exactly predictable! Luckily, Saturday was rain-free, and the track crew did a great job building the track in record time because of the Seahawks championship party on Wednesday. Even with the rain on Friday, they were able to have the track in incredible shape, and the design was great, allowing multiple options all around the track. With the soft dirt, the ruts that formed quickly made racing the track really tough, but that\u2019s what separates the good riders from the great riders. I think we prepared well for the race, with good strategy to help Hunter in the main event, but spinning on the starting grate wasn\u2019t in that plan. Even with that, I\u2019m proud of how Hunter was able to slice through the pack to get to the front, proving once again that even without a great start, he\u2019s one of the elite riders and deserves to be in the championship fight.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lawrence said afterwards during a TV interview he felt like an idiot for making the move. Justin Cooper…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":484742,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-484741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484741","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=484741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/484742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}