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Cycle News 2024 Issue 38 September 24

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tocross Champion, still the only rider to do so in the 450 division. Lawrence will, once again, sport the blue-and-yellow plate in the 2025 Supercross series. "This sport is a very singular- person sport, single person results," said Lawrence. "When the helmet goes on, you have to focus on business. Hunter and and get close enough, I might be able to get next to him, and I was able to do it that lap." Jett technically tied with Hunt- er in overall SMX points, with the tiebreaker going in favor of Jett's second-moto race win. The tiebreaker gave Jett the coveted $1,000,000 bonus, which means he's the back-to-back SuperMo- stamping the season with a dominant 1-1, the Honda HRC rider left no doubt about his pre- Playoff health or fitness. "I knew Eli was taking that outside, so coming up that time I was just like, 'Please stay left, please stay left, don't take my line,' " Lawrence said. "I had that line, and if I could send it VOLUME ISSUE SEPTEMBER , P71 2 COOPER WEBB 5TH (6-5) 450SMX Cooper Webb took fifth overall in Vegas and finished the SMX series fifth in points. "I had two solid motos. In the first one, I fell on the first lap and lost that fifth-place position. I made my way up to sixth but just couldn't quite get my teammate. In the second one, I got a pretty good start in fifth and was right there with that lead group for a while. Then Eli, myself, AP [Aaron Plessinger], and Kenny [Roczen] were all together, and I ended up fifth overall on the day and fifth in the series. Obviously, we wanted a little more, but we'll take it. I didn't come into the series super prepared, so I'm very happy to get two back-to-back fifths and have a solid result here at SMX. Now we'll get ready for MXoN." MYOWNRACE The 450SMX Championship came down to the two Lawrence brothers. Neither rider put a wheel wrong in race two.

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