Did you notice any other kinds of changes in him? Other than just being faster and stronger, were there any mental changes?
To me, he\u2019s had a great progression. It\u2019s easy to forget about his first years in the States with all his injuries. He\u2019s had a great chance to slowly build himself, which is kind of how he works. When he first was riding for the team, like in practice he wouldn\u2019t jump all the rhythm sections and by the end of the night he was in it. He works that way, in a slow evolution, which is a really smart strategy. You limit yourself to risk. What we\u2019re seeing isn\u2019t really like a progression of the last few months, but a progression of the last few years.<\/p>\n
Speaking of the mental side of things, from the outside he sure seems like he doesn\u2019t get too caught up in the highs or lows too much. Is that something that just comes naturally to him? He\u2019s not a veteran yet, but he seems like he handles things as well as, and maybe better, than some of the existing veterans.
Jett\u2019s the same way. Their father, Darren [Lawrence], gets credit for a lot of things and I think that\u2019s one of the things. He\u2019s really good about keeping Jett and Hunter process oriented. It\u2019s not only about the athlete I am today, but who can I be in three or four years? I just don\u2019t see much urgency, which can be perceived as a weakness, but in terms of developing it\u2019s really smart.<\/p>\n
In your role with the race team, does he ever come to you with certain asks in testing components or dialing in a certain setup? Can you feel this out or find a better way to do that?
I think I match Hunter better than Jett. We have a similar height, he\u2019s a little taller, but we weigh nearly the same and I think we leverage the bike in similar ways. I really match well with him and with what he\u2019s looking for. We develop a little differently than other teams, we trade bikes all the time. Sometimes when we test we won\u2019t have a test bike, we\u2019ll just have one bike and it\u2019s musical chairs. I think the benefit I can add is, I can validate what he\u2019s feeling. Sometimes when you\u2019re a racer it\u2019s difficult to put what you want into words. My experience in knowing what\u2019s going on in the motorcycle, as far as what\u2019s in there, what\u2019s changed, I can help him communicate what he\u2019s asking for, and help the technicians have a better idea of what direction to go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Did you notice any other kinds of changes in him? Other than just being faster and stronger, were…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":628503,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,52492,85],"class_list":["post-628502","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-racer-x-motocross-magazine-supercross-dirt-bike-mx-racerx-illustrated-dirtbike-motorcycle-racing-freestyle-video-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628502","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=628502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/628503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}