Jett Lawrence made his debut by winning this year’s AMA Supercross 450 main event, but to take the win he had the tough task of beating Jason Anderson at one point, with this particular battle deserving of the rider’s spotlight.
At the press conference at the end of the round in Anaheim, the Honda rider spoke about the fight with his Monster Energy Kawasaki opponent: ‘I was behind Jason in both of the heat and main, and I got to learn his lines. And obviously the main was completely different to the heat’.
And then he remembered arriving at the main race of the night, and how he had to try to beat his opponent in a calculating way: ‘We know…we’re pushing the pace in the heat race because we had traction. But once we got to the main, once it was Jason and I like 12, I kind of like, All right, let’s just try and find the safe lines and not throw it away cause it would be worse to not get a podium after crashing or something’.
Then explaining how he was even forced to risk more than he initially wanted: ‘But yeah, I just tried staying there, staying there, and this one lap I couldn’t really find anywhere. So, I’m just like, Gosh, I guess I just got to balls up and just send it through the whoops. And I think we both got sketched through [them] that lap and through that line, but was able to make a pass and get through the second set too’.
