the 450MX class delivered an incredible opening moto at Fox Raceway in Pala, California, as the stars of the Pro Motocross Championship battled for the first moto win of the season.
🔥 Hunter Lawrence claimed the Moto 1 victory with a dominant performance, showing impressive speed and consistency on the rough and demanding Fox Raceway circuit.
One of the biggest stories of the race was Haiden Deegan's 450MX debut. The young star impressed in his first-ever professional 450MX moto, charging through the field and finishing in P5 against some of the toughest competition in the sport.
📍 Fox Raceway National
📌 Pala, California, USA
🏍️ Pro Motocross Championship 2026 – Round 1
🏆 Moto 1 Highlights
🥇 Hunter Lawrence – P1
⭐ Haiden Deegan – P5 (450MX Debut)
Can Hunter sweep the overall, or will the field fight back in Moto 2?
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🔥 Hunter Lawrence claimed the Moto 1 victory with a dominant performance, showing impressive speed and consistency on the rough and demanding Fox Raceway circuit.
One of the biggest stories of the race was Haiden Deegan's 450MX debut. The young star impressed in his first-ever professional 450MX moto, charging through the field and finishing in P5 against some of the toughest competition in the sport.
📍 Fox Raceway National
📌 Pala, California, USA
🏍️ Pro Motocross Championship 2026 – Round 1
🏆 Moto 1 Highlights
🥇 Hunter Lawrence – P1
⭐ Haiden Deegan – P5 (450MX Debut)
Can Hunter sweep the overall, or will the field fight back in Moto 2?
👍 Like the video
💬 Leave your thoughts in the comments
🔔 Don't forget to subscribe and turn on notifications so you never miss our upcoming full race uploads!
#promotocross #450mx #foxraceway #FoxRacewayNational #hunterlawrence #haidendeegan #450Debut #moto1 #fullrace #motocross #palacalifornia #smx #dirtbike #AMA450MX
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00:03It's been over a thousand days since Eli Tomek has actually won an overall.
00:07He's one of the all-time greats in this sport, but hasn't won a race since this track at the
00:12end of the 2022 season.
00:14But Eli made it pretty simple yesterday. He plans on ending that real quick. It might even happen here today.
00:22Jorge Prado, we've got some making up to do for 2025, and no one wants to do that more than
00:27he does.
00:28He feels like he has a lot of people to prove wrong. A lot of talk about how he underperformed
00:34last year.
00:34He can start the road to redemption right here at round one.
00:37Yeah, JT, and he is one of the best starters ever on that number 26.
00:42Would not be surprised to see that Orange Red Bull KTM up front.
00:45Here it is. 30-second board is up.
00:47Probably the most anticipated opener in this series, which has been running for 55 years.
00:53Partially because of the two names you see on the screen right now.
00:55Jett Lawrence, Hayden Deegan, but so many other greats on the gate right now.
01:00But the talk is over. It's time to go racing!
01:12Hunter Lawrence had it, but that is going to be Mikkel Harrop on the triumph to the lead.
01:18Did not race Supercross. Comes in ready. Battling Hunter now. Prado's third.
01:22Oh, we got a pileup here. I don't know if there's any of our contenders.
01:26Always easy to have in that 180, but Hunter Lawrence, as you mentioned, I thought he was there first.
01:31Mitchell got around him. Nickel.
01:34Yeah, good start for the triumph, Prado.
01:35I was like, Jorge Prado is...
01:38And Chase Sexton fourth. He has struggled with starts on the Kawasaki.
01:42This is a pretty good one. And now Hunter able to lock it down.
01:45Yeah, I was getting confused. They were going all over.
01:46But Hunter Lawrence, when you're looking at him, the speed, the way he was doing it, it's scary for everybody
01:52else.
01:52Great start by him. Great start by Jorge Prado.
01:55And another guy we really haven't mentioned that much, Chase Sexton.
01:58We know he always carries the speed, but does he carry the mindset to come in here and win and
02:03be able to contend?
02:04We'll find out here through this moto.
02:05Prado makes the move on Harrop. These riders used to battle over in Europe at MXGP.
02:10Prado not messing around. Going to second.
02:12And does not want Hunter Lawrence to get away.
02:15Yeah, well, you know, look at Dow.
02:17Jett Lawrence is running in the 16th.
02:19So, bad start for a defending champ. Not sure what happened.
02:23He's got a long ways to go.
02:24And the one guy's out front. Might be the toughest is his brother.
02:27See what happens.
02:28He get even worse. He is 20th.
02:30So, the big names that everyone's talking about.
02:33Struggling. Hunter Lawrence starting to roll.
02:36And here comes Sexton now.
02:39Yeah, Chase going to try to follow these two guys.
02:41They have been the fastest guys of the day.
02:43Jorge Prado and Hunter Lawrence.
02:44So, Chase wants to get up there.
02:46I'm not sure what his mindset is.
02:48Is he here trying to win?
02:49Or is he here trying to make sure his bike is good?
02:52Just get up on that podium.
02:53Oh! Is that Tomac?
02:55Yeah, that's Eli and March Bank.
02:57Oh, no.
02:59Big collision and they are not quick to get up.
03:02Oh, man. Tough break.
03:04And last time we saw Eli race was the same kind of incident there.
03:08Just a rotting incident.
03:10I believe Gary was on the outside.
03:12The four-time champion, Tomac, getting together.
03:15You're right.
03:16That is eerily similar to a couple of the crashes late in the Monster Energy Supercross campaign for Tomac.
03:21We have to go back to Prado, keeping Lawrence in sight on lap two.
03:27And that's a bummer to see.
03:28Certainly not just for Tomac, but March Bank, who's very quick in qualifying as well.
03:35But it's going to be Lawrence Prado, hair up top three, lap one.
03:38Here we go.
03:38Yeah, you're going to watch Eli right here in the middle.
03:41And then you got March Bank on the outside here.
03:45Watch these lines.
03:46Eli's going to get in there.
03:47I don't know if he's going to pop out of that rub, but March Bank's come.
03:50Racing incident, but tough hit for both of them.
03:52Gary went down really hard in the face of that jump.
03:56Oh, man.
03:57That's hard.
03:58Yeah, you hate to see it for both of those riders.
04:01Prado just inching up ever so slightly on Hunter early.
04:06Sexton is now third ahead of Herop.
04:08And Justin Cooper is fifth.
04:11Mr. Craig, Barsha, Plessinger, Webb round out the top ten.
04:15And there's Jet Lawrence, mired in traffic.
04:18He just made the move we hear on Cooper Webb.
04:20That'll move him to tenth.
04:22As I said with his teammate in the 250 class, Joe Shimodo, Jet was struggling earlier,
04:26so this might be a good thing.
04:27Takes that mindset off of even trying to win this race.
04:31Get in that form, really get that race craft going.
04:34To be up in that top five, you're going to have to make some great passes.
04:37So let's see if you can keep moving up.
04:39Is that Deegan behind him or?
04:41Oh, no, it's Cooper Webb.
04:42Yeah, it's Deegan's teammate, but I'll tell you what's crazy.
04:45Jet had led 91 straight laps at this track until the first one here with the bad start.
04:51And Cornelius Tondel right there making moves, battling Webb uphill behind Lawrence.
04:59Just passed it two, three times, two across champ out here.
05:05I think Deegan's about to get into this fight as well.
05:08He's at the bottom of the screen, battling Webb now.
05:10Let's go to JT.
05:12Well, we're going to try to get a replay of the start.
05:15I watched Jet Lawrence, and he started right next to Jorge Prado.
05:20We're going to come up on the screen right here.
05:21Watch Jorge Prado and Jet Lawrence next to each other.
05:23They are side by side.
05:24You see Prado finally get the drive.
05:26Right there, you see Jet get squeezed out by Cooper on his left and Prado on the right.
05:31That is what got him to start.
05:32It was so close, but that last, when they grabbed third gear, the pull there that Prado got him to
05:37second,
05:38and Jet fell back to 14.
05:39Yeah, and truthfully, that's probably a little bit of timidness by Jet because he hasn't raced all year.
05:44And I know when I came back from injury, that's one of the scariest parts, being around a bunch of
05:48people.
05:49So I think Jet probably shut off a little early and was just trying to stay up.
05:52And when you do that here, you go from top 10 to in the back of the pack to looking
05:57back,
05:57and you got Hayden Deegan on you.
05:59Well, here it is.
06:00They're hooking up in a battle, maybe not the positions that people expected.
06:04This is a fight for 10th and 11th between Lawrence and Deegan.
06:10Yeah, this is a scary position for Jet because he wants to be able to, you know, work his way
06:14in,
06:15and he's got guys in front of him, so he probably won't be able to run his lines.
06:18But then you got Hayden Deegan just, you know, railing it, scrubbing it behind you.
06:21He know he wants to make the pass, so it's going to be scary.
06:26I'm interested to see what happens.
06:27I believe if Hayden comes in, Jet probably let him by and try to follow him, maybe repass him later.
06:32Meanwhile, bottom box, Jorge Prado all over Hunter Lawrence for the lead.
06:37Prado came to play as expected.
06:39Now Jet Lawrence makes the move on Barsha.
06:42That'll move him to 9th, and Barsha now between Jet and Deegan.
06:47Yeah, Jet's just got to keep moving forward, keep that gap in that 38 as Hayden Deegan makes his way
06:52around him.
06:53As I said, Jet wouldn't be able to run his line, so he might get slowed up, which will allow
06:57Hayden Deegan to come in.
06:59I think Barsha made a pass back on him, so.
07:04Well, that's what makes it so fun, this field here.
07:06You can go back to 10th and find some riders who will not just roll over.
07:11Marshall will fight you as hard as anyone up front.
07:14The yo-yo game, Prado able to close in, Hunter pulls it back out, and vice versa between the leaders
07:20in that bottom box.
07:21And Sexton lurking as well.
07:23Yeah, I think all these guys are just kind of, like we saw Levi Kitchen, just kind of let this
07:28race play out.
07:29If you get close to him, try to make that pass.
07:32And by their body language, there's not too much of a rush for all three of these guys.
07:36Jorge was standing up, and then when you attack, he'll close in on Hunter.
07:39Hunter knows he's going to be there, so this race is just a chess game at this point.
07:43Except you're just going 60 miles an hour while playing chess.
07:47Exactly. It's faster than most people can go.
07:49Oh, man, you see there on the left side of the screen, right side of the track,
07:53Tomek still being attended to after that hard crash on lap one.
07:57You hate to see it.
07:59Christian Craig is next on the charge for Jet Lawrence, and here's Deegan following him through.
08:06Yeah, still a great ride by Jet.
08:08He's starting to pick up the pace, making his way up.
08:10So maybe what he's going to do is he knows that 38 is behind him.
08:14Maybe that's what he's pushing him for, so he's not thinking about anything else besides getting away.
08:18And while he's doing it, he's closing in on the guys ahead of him.
08:21They might all meet out the front the way it's going right now.
08:24So that will move Jet up to eight.
08:26Craig, ninth.
08:28Craig and Deegan are very close.
08:29Actually, Craig was working with Deegan as a bit of a coach about a year and a half ago.
08:34They're still pretty tight on the track, but every man for himself out on the round one ProMotoCost opener.
08:42Yep, absolutely.
08:43When you think about Jet Lawrence, I mean, how long has it been since he actually raced?
08:47I mean, six-plus months.
08:49You look at last time he goes back, and, you know, so just going back to what happened in that
08:53first corner,
08:54it's easy to happen.
08:54A mistake rep there.
08:55Oh!
08:55All this takes a look over.
08:58And Deegan already passed Craig, so he's right there with Jet.
09:02Yeah, let's see what happens here.
09:06And I don't think Craig put up too much of a fight on Deegan.
09:08Deegan around the outside.
09:09Side by side.
09:11Lawrence and Deegan.
09:13Yeah, Craig probably let him go by because he's like,
09:15I want to see what happens right here with, hey, Deegan.
09:20Deegan makes the pass on Jet Lawrence, and now going after Plessinger.
09:25Yeah, that mistake by Jet obviously allowed Hayden to go,
09:28and Hayden wants to make that pass and make his way forward.
09:32So I thought Jet would do what he did.
09:34Played a long game.
09:35Be smart.
09:36Hopefully Aaron slows Hayden down so he doesn't go and he has an opportunity to go by.
09:40But he might.
09:42He's right back to the rear wheel of Deegan.
09:45Now, the cool part when you watch these two guys, like, their contrast in style.
09:49Like, Hayden Deegan really runs it in a lot.
09:51And we know how patient Jet Lawrence is.
09:53So when you're watching him on the racetrack, you'll see.
09:56There it is.
09:57Jet got him back.
09:58And the crowd responds.
10:00Simple as that.
10:01One mistake.
10:01Hayden goes to the outside.
10:03Jet sneaks in.
10:03And that's the difference between the 250 class and 450.
10:07These guys attack.
10:08We know how much they want to win, all of them.
10:11Great pass by Jet Lawrence.
10:13Let's see what Hayden responds back to.
10:17Woo!
10:18I didn't think it would happen quite this quickly.
10:21First ten minutes of the season, it's already on.
10:23We're not going to wait for anything.
10:24It might be for ninth and eighth and ninth, but the battle is here.
10:29And Plessinger, who's returning from some vicious injuries in Supercross, just ahead of him.
10:34Deegan, another attack.
10:36Going to run it around the outside.
10:37And Lawrence ran him out of room.
10:39Yeah, just going back to my point with these two riding styles, what you're going to see, Jet relaxes going
10:44in the corner.
10:44Hayden really attacks it.
10:45So it's easy for Hayden to make up a lot of time entering the corner.
10:49In some of these parts where you get these split lanes, he'll have a lot of opportunities to pass Jet.
10:53Jet carries that momentum, but Hayden will always close that gap by the way he rides.
10:59Looks like we lost Jay Sexton.
11:01He was in third.
11:02Now Justin Cooper has moved up.
11:03Yeah, Sexton is now fourth.
11:06And that's the battle out front with Prado just stalking Hunter Lawrence from second.
11:12Yeah, these guys just ran two eighteenths over two seconds faster pretty much than everybody else on the racetrack.
11:18So they're picking that pace up.
11:20You see Jorge standing up.
11:21It don't look like they were too big of a rush compared to his brother and Hayden Deegan.
11:26Great start for all these guys.
11:28He's looking good, JT.
11:30Yeah, he looks great.
11:31And don't forget, guys, there is no love lost between Hunter Lawrence and Jorge Prado.
11:35They've had a war of words.
11:37They kind of talk back and forth.
11:38There was the body Spanish comment by Jorge Prado.
11:42And even a couple weeks ago at the finale in Salt Lake City, Jorge Prado was the one putting pressure
11:47on Hunter Lawrence that you could argue forced that mistake.
11:50So it's one of the most under-reported rivalries that we have going right now, but it's about to heat
11:55up.
11:55Well, yeah, because now it's one-on-one for the lead, and those two on the bottom as Lawrence and
12:01Deegan are making moves on Plessinger.
12:03The other Lawrence and Prado are long gone up front.
12:06Yeah, I love the contrast.
12:08Our drone shot right here is giving you an ideal of Hunter Lawrence and Jorge Prado.
12:13Just the line selection, how many different lines are on this racetrack.
12:16Hunter swings on the outside, cuts the corner.
12:18Jorge is going more straight in but banking off.
12:20So different ways to get it done, and they're literally running the same lap time, but at 2.18.6
12:25for both of them in the last lap.
12:27And we hear Tomac is being helped off the track by the Alpine Stars medic team.
12:32You hate to see that for the four-time champion of the series so early in this campaign.
12:39There's Prado continuing to shadow Hunter Lawrence, Will.
12:43Well, Jason, we were talking in the booth just earlier, Jason, we were talking about this exact scenario, right?
12:48We may well see a Hunter Lawrence, Jorge Prado, one and two here battling.
12:52And these are the two guys out of the entire field who are not coming off injury.
12:56They have plenty of momentum from supercars.
12:59Yes, Jorge switch manufacturers.
13:01But as I just spoke to team manager Ian Harrison about, that's a gray area.
13:06He's gone back to Red Bull KTM.
13:08He's gone back to a bike ring that he's extremely used to.
13:10So he doesn't think that counts.
13:12So we're talking about two guys really who are battling nothing else apart from themselves right now.
13:17And I asked, well, hey, hang on a second, but you've only just learned these tracks.
13:20And you were doing it in a kind of a non-competitive way last year.
13:24You were doing it at the back of the pack.
13:25And he said, that's probably my only thing that I have to deal with here, James,
13:29is the line selection from last year when he was, you know, 10th and further back to being up front
13:35and running up front.
13:36It's a very different experience for him.
13:38Yeah, it is.
13:39But at the same time, Jorge is used to winning, you know, and this is where he's more comfortable at.
13:44And I think with him, when you're a rotter that's won at so many times, you've got to have a
13:48little bit of naive about you.
13:49So I think in Jorge's mind, last year was last year.
13:52I know what the problem was.
13:54I changed that problem.
13:55So I'm going to go back to being what I am as he's closing in on Hunter Lawrence.
14:00So I think it's more about, this is more normal for him compared to where he was last year.
14:04And so far, he's making his way up.
14:06Now look at the different lines.
14:08Hunter switched his line up this time.
14:10He was a little bit farther on the outside, but you can see the difference in that corner.
14:13Works out the same, but.
14:16Anyhow, top box, Jet Lawrence trying to get around.
14:19Harrop, the Danish rider, doing very well in the triumph.
14:22But a little mistake, hitched in the corner, and that allows Jet to move by him for sixth.
14:27Prado and Hunter so close up front.
14:30Yeah, great ride.
14:31I like what I see from Jet.
14:32I think this is helping him, as I said earlier.
14:35You know, it's got to reset the focus.
14:37I'm not going to lead any more laps here.
14:39It may poppy this moto.
14:40So get back out here.
14:42Hey, Deegan, put the charge in here.
14:43So it made Jet have to race, and they're both picking up their paces.
14:47And this game up front, this is seriously a chess match.
14:50This is what Jorge does.
14:52I mean, he's very technical.
14:53He's going to work on Hunter Lawrence and try to make some pass.
14:56So he'll drop back.
14:57We're not even halfway in this moto.
14:59Long ways to go.
15:00Both these guys are in a great position.
15:03Jorge Prado 2.0.
15:05Much better in his second year in America.
15:07It was a disappointment last year.
15:09He had switched not only moving from Spain to America, but then switching teams to the
15:14Monster Energy Kawasaki squad.
15:16That did not go well by any measure.
15:18Got out of that deal.
15:19Came back to KTM the brand he rode for when he was a youngster in Europe, and it has paid
15:24massive dividends.
15:25Very good in Supercross, considering he does not have much experience racing in stadiums.
15:30Now he's comfortable on his types of tracks, and he's riding well in second.
15:34Here's Jorge on his goals and his expectations for the motocross campaign.
15:42So my expectations for the 2026 Pro Motocross Championship, basically it's to win.
15:48I really hope I can get it done this year.
15:53Like I said, I feel very good with myself and with the bike, and I don't see a reason
15:57why not to be able to clinch the title or even fight for the title.
16:03That's what I'm aiming.
16:05So, yeah, that's my goal.
16:09Well, he's never been shy about his own abilities, so even that quote doesn't surprise me at all.
16:16He's been a championship guy his whole life.
16:18I don't think he expects anything different, although at the moment, Hunter has gotten a
16:22drop on him and opened it up to about three seconds.
16:25Yeah, again, this is a game of chess right here with these two guys.
16:30This race is just beginning.
16:31And then you got Justin Cooper, Chase Sexton up here.
16:36I believe Chase went down, Jason.
16:38I see.
16:39Yeah, one bad lap.
16:40Must have been in.
16:41And he's close back in.
16:43We're halfway through this one, by the way.
16:44A reminder to stock up on Monster Energy drinks at Stater Brothers.
16:48So still plenty of racing left for this fourth place battle.
16:51You got Justin Cooper third, Sexton fourth, and RJ Hampshire is lurking right behind them
16:57on the Rockstar Husky.
16:59Yeah, great to see RJ back out here.
17:02And kind of, you know, thinking about star racing and, I guess, Monster Riders.
17:07You got Justin Cooper in third, Chase Sexton in fourth, Cooper Webb, 13th, March Paints.
17:11We saw him earlier with Eli go down.
17:15But I think a lot – I felt like it was going to be a good day for Justin Cooper.
17:19You go back to last year, a strong first moto, really kept Jeff within six seconds, but pulled
17:24away from everybody else, and just seeing the growth of him this Supercross season, he's
17:29starting to believe that pass he made on Eli Tomek, that second triple crown.
17:34Ever since then, Justin Cooper has been a different rider, and he's riding with an attitude.
17:37So I like what I see, and I think good things are going to happen for the 32.
17:41I love it.
17:42It doesn't matter who you throw in there.
17:44The field gets deeper every year.
17:45Justin Cooper is always going to be right around those podium positions.
17:49You can set your watch to it, and that's where he is right now.
17:53Yeah, that's good stuff.
17:54Going back to the opening, what I said, all these guys got motivation out here.
17:59You know, obviously they want to do good every year, but there's a lot to prove for each
18:03one of these guys.
18:03You go through the top ten.
18:05So good for Chase.
18:07I think this is a good thing for him.
18:09Supercrosses, let's not be shy.
18:10It was a rough year for Chase.
18:12Even though he's got two wins, it wasn't Chase Sexton, and we were wondering him coming
18:16to this motocross, you know, where would the bike be at?
18:19Where would he be mentally?
18:20I felt like this first race, he needed to have some positives, whether that was with
18:23speed or the bike going in the right direction, because we know Chase Sexton, when he's on,
18:28he can beat any of these guys any day of the week.
18:32Well, that's why he's the champion of this series just two years ago, and then you see
18:36Hampshire back behind him.
18:37JT, what do you think?
18:38And watch for the number four of Sexton.
18:39I agree with James so much, and he needs a fast start here, because it just felt like
18:44if things went awry at the opening round, we could snowball the wrong direction really
18:50quickly with how Supercross went.
18:52But when you come out here and he's battling, maybe he can get on the podium in this moto,
18:55he comes off winning the last race of Supercross at Solid City, now you're on a little bit
18:59of a roll.
19:00So it just really felt like momentum was going to build.
19:03You just didn't know if it was going to be a positive or negative way.
19:06And the last note I want to add, guys, working in the background behind Hampshire there,
19:10Jett Lawrence has entered the picture, too.
19:11So don't rule out a last few-minute charge here.
19:15All these battles starting to close in on each other.
19:20Sexton and Cooper, then Hampshire.
19:22It's like Jett Lawrence has pulled away from Deegan a bit now, but he might be able to go
19:26after Hampshire and Sexton.
19:29Yeah, that's a big thing.
19:30And JT's spot on with him, with Chase.
19:33And I believe that number one starts sniffing, and he's going to close up on these guys.
19:39And Jett's getting confident every lap.
19:41He's going to get faster and faster as his moto goes on.
19:43He's feeling that foot out, feeling good, maybe working some kinks with the motorcycle.
19:47Wouldn't be surprised if he ends up close to this podium at the end of the race.
19:54Hampshire on the gas here, missed almost all of Supercross, had a pretty routine crash
20:00with a handlebar, went right to the top of his foot.
20:02He said there was a chance.
20:04He was healed up enough where he maybe could have come back to the last Supercross or two.
20:08They decided to keep the focus on this.
20:10Point being, he's healthy.
20:11He's had plenty of time at the motorcycle, and it's showing right now.
20:14I mean, you go back to last year, the guy would have had surgery within 10 days, and he came
20:19out here.
20:19So, like Justin Cooper, as you said, being around the podium, when I see RJ, I expect RJ being RJ.
20:26A guy that's always fighting, never gives up, and when he stays up, he's up there towards the front.
20:34Jett Lawrence starting to take time out of everyone.
20:37He just ran a 219.
20:38The only other riders that went that fast, Deegan and Hunter Lawrence up front.
20:44It's like Jett's starting to put it together here.
20:46Yeah, he's starting to put it together.
20:47Now he has that rabbit to chase with those guys, and hey, Deegan has the rabbit to chase and the
20:52rabbit himself.
20:53But I like that.
20:55Jett Lawrence, you know, that line right there.
20:57This is starting to remind me of who I am.
20:59God is getting these creative lines, and, you know, the lap sounds don't lie.
21:03He's been getting faster.
21:04So let's see if he can continue that through the rest of his moto, because if not, the number 38
21:09would love to get back up there and get to him.
21:11And he's closing in as well.
21:20Guys, talking to Dr. G, Harold Gubinick there, who is the physiotherapist to a lot of the guys in the
21:26paddock, but obviously Jett and Hunter Lawrence.
21:29I got to have a good chat with him about what this injury, what the sort of implications of it
21:33were long term.
21:34And he was very transparent with me.
21:37He said, look, this is likely never going to be 100%.
21:40He said, that's just how that injury goes.
21:42It's very complicated.
21:43We've talked about it quite a bit.
21:45There's not much blood flow to that talus bone.
21:47He said, so we're not expecting that.
21:49We've been honest with Jett.
21:51As a team, we've been honest.
21:53Don't expect this to ever.
21:54He's like, we'll get the full range of motion back eventually.
21:56But it will never be the same.
21:58So what we are dealing with now is working around it.
22:02He has to adapt.
22:03He has to compensate.
22:05And he has to slightly change his riding style for certain things, especially at the moment, without full range of
22:11motion, that he can't do.
22:13And Dr. G said that's the thing that's frustrating Jett most, is he's not able to do anything that he
22:19wants to do.
22:20And he said that will improve and it will come.
22:22But he also said, most notably, that he's incredibly impressed with Jett and how he's been able to adapt.
22:29And that, James, is probably just due to his level of skill.
22:32But he's been able to work around it very quickly.
22:34Oh, absolutely.
22:35And I got the same info as well.
22:37And for most people, I mean, this could be not only just career ending, but the way you alter your
22:42life on just your every day.
22:44So the fact that this guy came out just shows you how mentally strong he is.
22:48But I will say one thing.
22:49He's got the right team of people around him.
22:51He also has the right riding style to be able to get away with an injury like this, being very
22:56patient.
22:57You've got to change and adapt your riding style.
22:59And Jett Lawrence is one of the best ever to do that.
23:02And, you know, from what we saw that first practice to this, you know, he was really aggressive.
23:07Things start, that clock starts rushing really fast when you look at how fast your brother is.
23:11Jett Lawrence has got the right body style, the right mindset to come back from injury.
23:16And he's only going to get better throughout this season.
23:19We have now heard that Eli Tomac is awake and alert being transported, though, for further evaluation.
23:26So a big bummer there for the legend.
23:28Number three, Eli Tomac, going out of this race on the first lap.
23:31Certainly, we hope the best for him.
23:34As Lawrence is now right there with Hampshire.
23:38Hampshire is riding well, but it's almost like you see Jett just improve a little bit almost each lap of
23:43the race.
23:43No, he is.
23:44I mean, we were sitting here watching practice earlier.
23:46You know, he was really rushing things.
23:48And I had a chance to speak to Jett.
23:49And he said that that's so easy to happen, whether it's an injury or not.
23:53That clock runs really fast when you get in this race atmosphere.
23:58And a guy that's been off for all that time.
24:00But I believe this is a very important couple laps for Jett because if he's able to get around RJ,
24:05he might have an opportunity to get on the podium.
24:07But even more, he doesn't want to get stuck behind him and then let that 38 close in
24:12because all the stuff that he's been doing, he's going to have to be worried about him.
24:15So, great ride by all these guys.
24:17But these next couple laps might end up.
24:19Uh-oh.
24:20Hampshire, I think, stalled it in that corner.
24:21Maybe hit neutral.
24:23Lost speed.
24:24Here comes Lawrence.
24:24Yeah, let's see if Jett scrubs this.
24:26If he just runs it up the inside, he should have this pass because he'll be able to close that
24:31gap.
24:32RJ's going to fight, though.
24:34Not enough.
24:35Just camera angle.
24:36Great pass by him.
24:38Let's see if he can now keep that momentum up and go towards Chase Sexton up in fourth place.
24:44Got to check in on that leader because he's all by himself at this point.
24:49Hunter Lawrence, almost six seconds out front.
24:53I mean, Jason, what can you say?
24:54I mean, I'm just impressed to see him out here fighting at this level
24:58considering how difficult that championship was a couple weeks ago.
25:02He looks great, JT.
25:03He does.
25:04And if you looked up the word resilience in the dictionary,
25:07you might find a picture of Hunter Lawrence next to it.
25:10Think about the heartbreak that this guy went through.
25:12I had the pleasure and also torment of interviewing him right after he lost that championship to Ken Rockson.
25:19And you could see the heartbreak and the pain that was going through him.
25:23It was palpable down there on the floor of Rice Sexton Stadium.
25:26And for him to bounce back three weeks later and to, I don't want to say run away,
25:31but he's pulled a five-and-a-half-second lead now out.
25:33So think about how much he's had to summon himself, find himself, and bring his best effort to this race.
25:40I don't have enough good things to say about what we're seeing from Hunter Lawrence right now.
25:43I agree.
25:43And the cool part about that, JT, he stayed down there to allow to be interviewed.
25:48That just shows you what kind of person it is.
25:49But even more than just, you know, being resilient, I think this is what this says.
25:55The way he's raced this first moto, what it tells me, and I'm sure Hunter's thinking that,
25:59what happened in Supercross isn't a fluke.
26:01Because this is what we saw in Supercross.
26:04Like, he was just steady, made it look easy, just pulled away from those guys.
26:08And at one point in that whole series, he was the best guy.
26:11And it wasn't even really close.
26:12So for Hunter, I'm coming back with all that, you know, heartbreak.
26:16At least I come back out here, and it feels just like I left a few weeks ago.
26:20And that only looked well for him moving forward.
26:24Go further back.
26:25Deegan now has Hampshire in sight.
26:28So the rookie here is seventh in his first 450 pro motocross race.
26:31Can he make up any more positions?
26:33Hampshire will be next.
26:34And then Jet Lawrence up the road.
26:36The gap between Lawrence and Deegan has stayed around a 3-4 second mark for about 15 minutes now.
26:43There's Lawrence.
26:44There's Hampshire.
26:45Here's Deegan.
26:46Yeah, I think this is where Hayden, when you talked earlier about he wants to win,
26:50but also that backup plan.
26:52And I think people might look at it as like he's, you know, making excuses.
26:55But I think what Hayden is, he's very, you know, he understands how great these guys are.
27:00And to sit here and be like, I want to win and kind of overlook the fact that they're that
27:04good,
27:05is not what he does.
27:06He's got too good of a team around him.
27:08So you hear Hayden, when he says, I'm here to learn, he's really giving props to the guys
27:13around them because he knows how deep this 450 class is.
27:15And so he understands that races, if you don't get stars, you might end up in seventh place
27:21with a good rod.
27:22So Hayden's smart enough.
27:23It looks like to me he's sitting back just learning and hopefully finishes top this moto off.
27:28It's all his position.
27:29Yes, because for all the bluster, all the top of Hayden Deegan, the one thing he has been mentioning
27:35lately that he takes the most pride in is he never missed a single 250 race due to injury.
27:41So there is a method, even though it looks like pure madness, there is a method to that
27:46madness as far as consistency and building and learning and then coming back to next time.
27:51And it's awfully close now.
27:53Well, you can still see Jet and you can see Hampshire right there.
27:57Here's Danger Boy.
27:57Yeah, and we know, what do we know about Hayden?
28:00Towards those end of the race, man, this guy never lets off.
28:03And I go back to what I said a couple laps ago with Jet Lawrence.
28:06That pass around RJ was very important because of who was behind him.
28:10If Hayden smelled that blood, I don't care if it's his first race or 300.
28:13This guy will not give up.
28:15And you give him an opportunity, he's going to try to seize it.
28:18So Hayden Deegan's doing a great job.
28:21He's always going to be there and he's learning as we, you know, every lap that goes by.
28:26All right, he's putting in a charge right now.
28:28Two minutes and two laps to go.
28:30And the fans barbecuing up at the top of the hillsides.
28:33That's motocross tradition.
28:34Getting up close to the action.
28:36Look at that crowd there.
28:37And a lot of them wanted to see this.
28:39They got a little Lawrence versus Deegan in this moto.
28:42Is there anything left in it?
28:44Yeah, it ain't done with.
28:45All that smoke up there.
28:47I was thinking it was Cooper Webb from last year.
28:48His bike's smoking.
28:50But, yeah, the one thing with Hayden Deegan, as he's learning, because of how great he's been
28:55and some of the comments that he's made, you got to look at him.
28:58When he's making passes, I think it's like the defending Super Bowl champion.
29:02You get the best from everyone.
29:04So when he's making a pass on RJ or anybody else.
29:06Oh, no.
29:07That is Chase Sexton.
29:09Ah, bummer for Chase.
29:12Yeah, so now he slips down to seventh right there.
29:16Wow.
29:17I don't know if he stalled it or whatnot.
29:19But, yeah, is he back underway?
29:21I think he did come across, so eventually got the bike going.
29:25Well, he was third.
29:26Then it looked like it was going to be a fourth.
29:28And then he'll drop the 2024 champion of the series back to seventh, as mentioned.
29:34And Deegan is definitely digging down the stretch, though.
29:37Yeah, he's digging in, but he's also coming up to a guy who's kind of like him as the race
29:42goes on.
29:43RJ is the same way.
29:44He never gives up.
29:45Really strong.
29:46And, you know, still a good ride by Hayden.
29:49Six, if he can get past RJ, top five.
29:52But the main thing is he saw Jet Lawrence.
29:54He saw that pace.
29:55And if you can keep it on two wheels, there's always something to build.
29:59So I'm sure he's going to be disappointed that he was ahead of Jet at one point and got passed.
30:02But he's also taking notes while that was going on?
30:05Yeah, I mean, he has to take notes.
30:07And that's what I was saying back to my point.
30:09You know, I think Hayden understands that as much as he talks, these guys are generation.
30:15Jet Lawrence is Victor Wimbiana.
30:17He's a freak.
30:18He's an alien out here.
30:19So you're not just going to roll over.
30:20So once he made that pass, Jet was going to come back.
30:23So Hayden knows that.
30:24Or if not, I'm sure the guys that start racing will let him know as he makes the pass on
30:28RJ.
30:29Quick work of RJ there in that roller section.
30:31So now Deegan is going to be fifth.
30:34Jet Lawrence up to fourth.
30:36Puck away.
30:37Jet has finished top three.
30:39In 51 of the 54 motos he's competed in this class.
30:44He's not too far back at Justin Cooper, but might not get a podium in this one.
30:49Yeah, as dominant as this guy has been, Jet Lawrence, especially at this race, he's never lost.
30:53Come here, if you finish on a podium, it feels like a failure compared to all this other success.
30:57But I think this is a great moto for Jet because it's gotten better.
31:02He looks a lot better.
31:03And he was able to hold off Hayden, Deegan, when Hayden was going and Deegan finished his thing off.
31:07And the one guy that's out front, at least he's your brother, so you understand how good he is.
31:12We know how good Jorge is.
31:13So I think it's all right for Jet Lawrence.
31:18And that gap stays about the same, that two to four second range between Jet and Deegan as they followed
31:24each other from outside the top ten to in it.
31:27And Justin Cooper, as he always does, hanging strong around those podium positions.
31:31The rider out of New York on the Yamaha, a steady third.
31:37Prado stalking Hunter for the first half of this one, and Hunter got away.
31:41Does Deegan have a charge in him?
31:42Can he get to Jet one more time with two to go?
31:45Yeah, I mean, Hayden ran this 2-19-7, that last lap, compared to Jet, 2-20-6.
31:53But both those guys were, Jet was a faster, second faster, Justin Cooper.
31:58Hayden was two seconds faster.
31:59So that gap's starting to close.
32:01If Justin doesn't keep this pace up in the next lap and a half, he's going to have that number
32:05one all over him.
32:07Yeah, because there is a major carrot dangling in front of Deegan.
32:11You know he wants to get to Lawrence.
32:12Lawrence doesn't want to let him do it.
32:14And that's going to bring them closer to this 32, who is in third.
32:18Lap and a half to go.
32:20If you're Justin Cooper, you'd be like, all this hype, I'm the number one guy on the race team out
32:24here.
32:25That's right.
32:25You know, with his team, but not, you know, not unexpected with Justin Cooper.
32:30He's really good.
32:32This next lap and a half or half a lap is going to tell you whether he can hold this
32:36off.
32:37Okay, here's the gap.
32:38That's a lap rider and another one.
32:40As Cooper hits the top of that left-hander, then there's Jet Lawrence.
32:44Then another rider a lap down.
32:47Yeah, Jet lost some time, so I wonder if he got stuck behind these guys or Justin picked it up.
32:53There's Deegan.
32:54He's still pushing.
32:55Oh, yeah.
32:57He kind of knows, like, if he's going to have any shot at Jet, it would have to be why
33:01he's stuck behind these lappers.
33:02But Jet seems like he's cleared it a little hard.
33:05But almost just a little over a lap and a half left.
33:07I don't know if there's going to be any changes now.
33:09White flag about to fly.
33:12Hunter Lawrence looking to start this season so well.
33:15Prado solid in second.
33:18And Justin Cooper doing what he does.
33:20Way under the radar.
33:22Not a lot of talk.
33:23No hype for this guy, but looking to put it on the podium.
33:25That's what he does.
33:27He was talking to his team and his mechanic earlier.
33:29They say, honestly, in some ways, Jay Coop might actually almost be too smart.
33:34He's very calculated, very analytical.
33:36That's why he's been incredibly consistent in his career, but doesn't have as many race wins as the riders he's
33:43generally battling with on the track.
33:45Justin Cooper has never missed a pro motocross race since he turned pro, which is an astounding stat.
33:53250 and 450 class has never not lined up for a race.
33:57He's been able to stay healthy for the most part.
33:59And now one lap to go for the man who is the poster child for left brain thinking.
34:05The logical, analytical, unemotional 96.
34:08If there's anyone equipped to take a heartbreaking loss in Supercross, put it behind him, and win two weeks later,
34:15it's this guy right here.
34:16Absolutely.
34:17Absolutely.
34:18I mean, you go on days about what makes Hunter Lawrence a Hunter Lawrence.
34:22I mean, yes, he has the talent.
34:23He has the team.
34:23He has a perfect system, but what he has is an understanding and, you know, realization on life.
34:30He has perspective.
34:31Yeah.
34:31And that guy, to be Jet Lawrence's brother, to be your younger brother, taking all this hype, finished second to
34:37him two years in a row,
34:38really close, to lose another championship by one point when you could almost say he was the best guy through
34:44the latter, at least the second part of that season.
34:47But to always get back up and fight and to live through that, that's why he can come out here
34:52and have a board and race when we have all this hype of everybody else.
34:56This guy's been doing shows up and does exactly what he did a few weeks ago in Supercross and made
35:01it look really easy to me.
35:03And technically, this will actually be two straight moto wins because Hunter won the final moto of last year.
35:09He was able to hold Jet off at Bud's Creek at the last race of the year.
35:12And talking to some people at the team with Honda, including Trey Canard, their test rider.
35:18I mean, he said that's a big breakthrough as Hunter was getting closer and closer.
35:21We saw him hold Jet off at the halfway point of the season at Millville, Minnesota.
35:26He has been getting closer and closer to that elusive 450 title.
35:30He don't get much closer than he was a few weeks ago in Supercross.
35:34Could this be the campaign where he gets it done?
35:38You can't start it any better.
35:40No, it looks good.
35:41As I said, during Supercross, nobody's raced this version of Hunter Lawrence.
35:45I mean, he hasn't seen this probably the best his whole career.
35:48And this is what you get.
35:50This guy has it all.
35:52And all is going to include the first moto win of the year.
35:55Maybe not the hype of everyone else.
35:57How about the results?
35:59Hunter Lawrence wins the first moto of 2026.
36:03And it's going to battle right down the line.
36:06Solid run for Prado, second.
36:09And J. Coop is going to take it across in third.
36:12He takes a look over.
36:13Holds off Hunter, or Jet Lawrence, just behind Prado and Hunter.
36:18And welcome back to ProMotoCross.
36:20I don't think Jet Lawrence is 100%, but it's enough to score points in fourth.
36:26And Hayden Deegan.
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