AMA supercross champion and seven time AMA champion, Jett Lawrence needs no introduction as a seven-time AMA champion and all at the age of just at 21 years of age. The HRC racer, who lines up this weekend in Australia for the Aus X Open spoke to the media and below is what the told them.

MXLarge: Coming back home, does it make you realize your accomplishments and we spoke yesterday and it’s a long list of accomplishments. I spoke for 30 minutes just about the championships you have won.

Lawrence: Yes, it’s really cool and when you were listing them, its cool to hear and when you think about it, it doesn’t really register, the fame. Since the last time I was here, I was just starting my professional career and had no wins, no nothing to my name and now we have a whole tally of championships. It is also a cool feeling to come back, just to help the young kids nowadays. It might not seem there is a path for you, or anything, just stay disciplined and keep working hard and anything is possible.

MXlarge: When you see Cooper coming to Australia as well as the regulars in the championship and Hunter as well, does it excite you to bring that rivalry to your home country?

Lawrence: I think it is awesome and Coop and I, we had it all last season in supercross and it was probably one of the most fun seasons I have had you know. We can race each other, but we don’t bang into each other or take each other out. We have touched a couple of times, but it’s been a friendly touch, you know. I thrive off of that and I feel it is so much better racing, than just taking somebody out. For him coming here, its just as good as us racing in the states. And Australian fans can see it firsthand. I still see Cooper as a friend, and I have known him for a while. He rode at the compound too, before we owned it, so he knows me pretty well and because we know each other so well, it makes it more exciting.

MXlarge: You have won all you can win in the US, but what is the goal now, the deep-down goal for in five years.

Lawrence: I haven’t won an Aus X Open yet. It could be the final piece. For me, what motivates me is going for records and I want to try and there are times I don’t feel as motivated, but as soon as I lose, that brings out the competitor in me and that fires me up again. I am probably not going to win everything and there are going to be races where I am pissed off because I lost, either Hunter beat me, or Cooper beat me. For me, its trying to beat records and make people mate me more.

MXLarge: How does it feel to go back to the sunny coast to your old life, but was it a sense this is what we have achieved?

Lawrence: Yes, a little bit for sure. Its cool to come back and realize, because we have been around the whole World, but to be grateful, that we were living there (in the Sunshine Coast), because for us, the Sunshine Coast is the nicest place in the World, we think. So, its cool to come back in a different state of living, we feel like we are on top of the World, with what we have achieved so far. We have reminisced about old times as kids and yes, we do miss out on a lot, but I think it was worth it.