Hunter Lawrence stalked holeshot winner Jorge Prado and won Moto 2 of the RedBud National to take the overall victory. Hunter finished second in the first race after his bike stalled on the final lap.
Hunter now has three overall victories to Jett’s two. He
Prado’s holeshot came with Haiden Deegan on his back wheel. Deegan finished 10th in Moto 1, and gambled on an outside gate pick to slot into second early.
Hunter passed Deegan on Lap 3 and set his sights on closing a 9.5-second gap to Prado at the halfway mark. Hunter cut the advantage to two seconds on Lap 8 and then made the pass on Lap 12 a little more than two minutes on the clock.
Once in the lead, Hunter stretched his advantage and crossed the finish line more than 11 seconds ahead of Prado.
Prado was scored second overall on the tiebreaking procedure of the better second moto finish ahead of Jett Lawrence.
Jett was challenging Deegan in the opening laps, lost the back of his bike and crashed. That dropped him to 10th. Jett remounted and started to move forward, but he crashed a second time on the second lap and fell back to 11th.
Jett was forced to work his way through the field again. He was 10th on Lap 3, sixth by Lap 6, and finally cracked the top five on Lap 12. That elevated him to the podium with the third place overall finish.
“I doubled down with my terrible riding, that’s for sure,” Jett told Peacock’s Katie Osborne. “I made the decision with the team to go a certain way and it didn’t quite work. That’s on me.”
RJ Hampshire moved into fourth on Lap 3 around Cooper Webb and remained there until the checkers. With another fourth in Moto 1, he was scored fourth overall.
Garrett Marchbanks lost fifth to Jett late in the second moto, but that sixth-place result and a fifth in Moto 1 gave him fifth in overall scoring.
Deegan’s solid performance in Moto 2 salvaged enough points to finish sixth overall. Equally important, he finished ahead of one of the Lawrence brothers for the first time this season.
