Results: 250 AMA Motocross Ironman – Hunter Lawrence the new champ!


Hunter Lawrence clinched the 2023 250 US motocross championship but it was pretty stressful on lpa one after a bad start had him coming through the field but Justin Cooper had it even worse, he was ahead of Lawrence out of turn one but crashed in a bottle neck of turn two and from there, Hunter just had to keep safe navigating through the field to take fifth to wrap his first outdoor title and complete the Lawrence sweep in America – the Aussies have won every title they contested this season!

After year of chasing the dream across the world, Hunter said: “I seen the chaos in the second turn and seen the 32, I was way back and never tried to rush anything. What a year, never say die. I need more time, I can’t sum it up right now.”

Up front Di Francesco had the early lead before Vialle took over but he had Shimoda and Deegan right on him and they found their way around the French rider, but even Deegan couldn’t catch Shimoda such was his pace as he took the win with Deegan second and Vialle third.

In race two it was Jo Shimoda who ran away with the win to go 1-1 and take his first overall victory of the year with Mitch Payton admitting he found something on the PC bikes areound Southwicj that enabled his guys to start up front every week from then on.

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Tom Vialle might need a similar improvement from KTM after a terrible start left him outside the top ten but he got all the way back to third before Deegan passed him back near the end giving Deegana second overall with Vialle third. Hunter Lawrence got a bad start and just rode around in ninth throwing some big whips for the crowd!

Hunter commented: “Im tired! It’s good, so stoked, so honoured. We did it!”

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