Following a two-week break, AMA Pro Motocross resumed with round 9 at Ironman Raceway in Crawfordsville, Indiana, where Honda HRC Progressive’s Hunter Lawrence captured the first 450 class overall win of his career with consistent 2-2 finishes.

Hunter started 450 moto 1 in second position and took over the lead on lap 6. He maintained it until Chase Sexton got by three laps from the end, but Hunter held on to finish a solid second.

Meanwhile, Jett had jumped early and slammed the start gate, resulting in a start position outside the top 20, but he mounted an incredible charge that carried him to ninth by lap 3 and third by lap 11. The series leader crossed the line in that position but was later docked one lap by officials for what they determined to be a start infraction, relegating him to 17th.

Hunter got a second-place moto-2 start and took over the lead by the end of lap 1, while Jett rebounded from his first-moto issues to sit third. Jett passed his brother on lap 2 to assume the lead. A lap-5 tip-over dropped Hunter to fourth, but he quickly remounted and regained third, then passed for second four laps from the end.

Jett took the moto win, with Hunter six-and-a-half seconds behind, giving the brothers a 1-2 result. Hunter’s consistent 2-2 scores earned him his career-first 450 Pro Motocross overall win, while Jett was sixth overall.

Jett Lawrence: “Ups and downs today. I tried some new things with my stomach because I’ve been struggling to digest food between motos, and I think the tablets I took kept digesting everything so quickly that by halfway, I had no energy—bit of a bummer there. Obviously, there was the incident in the first moto, which in my mind is kind of silly because I feel like AMA has double standards; we’ve got guys cutting the track and they don’t do anything. I guess this is what we have to deal with, but they might need to get better at realizing who they need to penalize. I came back and won the second moto, so we’ll leave with that.”

Hunter Lawrence: “There was a lot of wild stuff that went on today, which worked out in my favor—what happened to Jett in the first moto with being penalized a lap, and then I’m not sure what happened with Chase in the second moto. It was a wild day in that aspect, but I’m happy to be there and able to capitalize on it. It was hot, with no breeze—a really tough, physically demanding day.”