{"id":175097,"date":"2026-02-22T04:53:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T04:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/175097\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T04:53:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T04:53:13","slug":"hunter-lawrence-wins-his-first-supercross-race-at-arlington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/175097\/","title":{"rendered":"Hunter Lawrence wins his first Supercross race at Arlington"},"content":{"rendered":"

ARLINGTON, Texas: Hunter Lawrence took the lead from Ken Roczen late in Round 7 at AT&T Stadium after scoring four second-place finishes in the first six rounds.<\/p>\n

Eli Tomac took second from Cooper Webb and Ken Roczen in dramatic fashion, but did not have enough time to wind in Lawrence.<\/p>\n

Webb took the final spot on the podium with Roczen fading to fourth after leading most of the feature.<\/p>\n

Justin Cooper rounded out the top five.<\/p>\n

In-Race Notes<\/p>\n

Ken Roczen and Cooper Webb battled for the holeshot with Webb narrowly edging his way to the front.<\/p>\n

Roczen took the position back quickly.<\/p>\n

Jason Anderson crashed on Lap 1.<\/p>\n

Points contenders Hunter Lawrence and Eli Tomac battle for the final podium position. Lawrence had it on Lap 3.<\/p>\n

Justin Cooper rounded out the top five.<\/p>\n

Chae Sexton was barely inside the top 10 at that point.<\/p>\n

Aaron Plessinger was sixth on Lap 6.<\/p>\n

Sexton up to seventh.<\/p>\n

Lawrence passed Webb for second on Lap 7 and then begins to attack Roczen. This insured Webb and Tomac remain in the battle.<\/p>\n

Lawrence was under attack by Webb on Lap 11, which gave Roczen a little breathing room.<\/p>\n

Garrett Marchbanks crashed on Lap 11 and was slow to remount.<\/p>\n

The leaders hit heavy traffic on Lap 14.<\/p>\n

Lawrence almost spun out on Lap 16 but remained in second. After so many runner-ups, he badly wants this win.<\/p>\n

Lawrence took the lead one lap later.<\/p>\n

Tomac moved into second on Lap 20 after passing Roczen and then running Webb wide off the track.<\/p>\n

Webb fell to fourth.<\/p>\n

Lawrence led by two seconds with two minutes on the clock.<\/p>\n

Webb moved back into a podium position (third) on Lap 22.<\/p>\n

Lawrence slowly pulled away.<\/p>\n

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The top nine in each heat moves directly into the Main Event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ARLINGTON, Texas: Hunter Lawrence took the lead from Ken Roczen late in Round 7 at AT&T Stadium after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":175098,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[150,152,151],"class_list":["post-175097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arlington","tag-arlington","tag-arlington-headlines","tag-arlington-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}