Jett Lawrence didn’t hold back when he was asked about an exciting first moto that had Haiden Deegan pushing hard for a way around the Aussie until Deegan hit the deck.
Jett, refusing to even use Deegan’s name, said of moto one: “I mean, I learned that I didn’t have a good flow, I can tell you that for sure. But yeah, I mean, obviously, it’s hard to learn much when you have fun. On someone else, but you kind of get a feeling a little bit on where they’re going to pass, obviously. And you can kind of read what’s his name like a book. You know where he’s going to try and pass. So it’s a little easier to kind of defend with that.
“Obviously, Hunter gets a lot more creative. He was able to get around me.I was able to kind of fire back and get a good run up to star straight. But yeah, I wouldn’t say I learned like a crazy amount like they’re not when I’m probably more battling with them behind and stuff like that.”
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On his ankle over the course of the day Jett said: “Super pumped to have red plate. It’s always good to have, doesn’t mean anything at this point really. It’s more important if you have it at the last round, so not really much change.
And to be fair, my ankle felt really, really good this weekend, to be fair. I still can’t ride normal. I mean, I just have less, a little bit less of pain. Every now and then I still like jar a bit, but it was good, honestly. Even after like walking around, it’s getting a lot better and stuff like that, which I’m happy about. I actually start to struggle with walking like I did before.
So I think it’s looking positive. I think it’s if each weekend we’re going to make some good strides in improving it, where it feels like it’s kind of going back to normal. Like even during this week when Doc G adjusted my ankle before when you pulled on it, only popped the left side of my foot and my right side was still stuck in.
It was still like pretty stiff to go side to side. And this week we were able to get both sides to pop and a lot more range of movement side to side. So that was really, really good. So yeah, hopefully this each weekend it keeps making more improvements.
That first one, I was going slow. I didn’t have a flow of the track at all. But surprisingly, because I was so disjointed and had not much to fire, I almost got more tired in that one than I did the second one.
The second one, I was pushing harder everywhere, but I didn’t get as tired as in the first one. So yeah, first one, I just couldn’t crack the flow. And obviously when with my foot, there’s some things, you know, that like reaction side of things you want both feet to be on the page, where sometimes my foot, my right foot is really light in some areas. So when it flicks, it flicks my right foot off. So it was, yeah, not ideal on defense mode that first one. I think we did pretty well.
Jett was also very complimentary of the Coenen brothers coming over and performing so well: “It’s sick to see, honestly. I mean, I think I said it maybe yesterday. Not many people get to experience the feeling that my brother and I get when we’re doing well, when we’re both in 2023, when he won the 250 Championship and I won the 450 Championship. The only people that can really relate to that now is honestly the Coenen brothers.
“Obviously, Lucas is doing really well in MXGP and obviously Sacha as well in the 250 class in MX2. So it’s cool to see. When you see two brothers doing well, it’s sick, because obviously they’re doing well because both of them are doing really good.
“And it’s always good to see brothers do well. Obviously, we had Jeremy Martin and Alex Martin before Hunter and I. Obviously, when you see them two do good, it’s always cool, but it’s like a family thing. So it was cool to see them come over. Obviously, I got to race them last year at Ironman and obviously, I’ve already seen the improvement just from then. So it’s cool to see, especially at a young age, being 19 years old.
“I remember when I was 19, riding a 450, you just keep learning, keep learning. You have that young energy. So it’s really, really cool to see. And they came over for a tough track because like I said, this dirt was really kind of weird and hard to adapt to”.
