Jett Lawrence has spoken in more detail about the crash that ended his session before it started just days away from A1!
Jett said on the Jaxxon podcast of the crash “I think my dad said in one thing (about the crash here). My foot was literally this like grazed the shifter and put it in between second gear and neutral which I’ve never done before in my life and Just landing it and up just the G force able to fully put in neutral and we had like a double going…it’s kind of like a tunnel jump and we land at the bottom of the tunnel jump to scrub it. And yeah, in the air my foot just just nicked the shifter put in between and the g-force from landing knocked it in. I was committed and just as I left the up ramp, my front just dropped and had to kind of jump off and, because I landed in the face of the next jump, my feet just planted and I broke obviously my my talus and navicular
“I found out that because the landing was so harsh my tibia was the one that smashed the top of my talus and Split it and then obviously dislocated my ankle and dislocated the navicular up and out That was the bone that was poking at the skin. I thought I sprained it and obviously I have like my gym trainer Michael Byrne and I had Hunter there and they came running over and my knees hit my chest so hard that I ripped the cartilage off my rib and like kind of my back ribs kind of got popped out as well. So my back was hurt and I was winded as well, which made it all even better!
“And so I kind of screamed about my back first. I’m like, oh my back’s that hurt so that’s why they called 911 to come out. So worried about that and I’m like dude my ankle too….I think I sprained it So they unbuckle it for me, threw my boot off and I laid my head back to relax again I just see Hunter go,’ Oh my god,” You see the bone poke at the skin….I was so pissedÂ
“This one took more of a toll… just because my main goal this whole year before in any of my interviews… I wasn’t even coming up like I want to win this, I want to win that, I just said I just want to have a full season, make every single race and just be healthy, you know, like I know if I’m there Championships are possible if I’m in it the entire time. If I’m missing rounds I’m not gonna win a championship because everyone’s so good nowadays that you have to be on it every single race.
“So It was mentally just like are you kidding me and it took me, like the typical competitor, I was kind of just over thinking I was in the hospital for almost three days and the entire time I’m just thinking what can I do? What could I’ve done different? Should I maybe try to fall down the bike? Or try and push off the bike get to a flat spot, but that never, never works. We’re going down that way. But in the end I go and I sign up for this shit every time!“
