From Honda -
DADE CITY, Florida (July 3, 2024) – Having injured his thumb in a small practice crash Tuesday, Team Honda HRC rider Jett Lawrence will undergo a procedure this week, which will result in him sitting out the remainder of the AMA Pro Motocross series.
The fall took place on Tuesday, July 2, at the “Dog Pound” (the Lawrence family’s private training facility in Florida). Later the same day, Jett underwent X-ray and MRI scans, and it was determined that he had a torn ulnar collateral ligament, or UCL. [Technical diagnosis: proximal thumb avulsion fracture at the insertion of the UCL, a sprain of that same ligament, and an avulsive ligamentous tear of the metacarpophalangeal (MCP) volar plate from its metacarpal attachment.]
Jett is scheduled to undergo a procedure on Thursday, July 4, at the Steadman Clinic in Colorado, after which he will focus on making a return in time for the SuperMotocross opener on September 7 in Concord, North Carolina.
“It’s obviously a bummer, but it’s part of our sport,” Lawrence said. “It was honestly a pretty small crash, but it is what it is. I’ve been pretty lucky with injuries in my career so far, so I guess it’s just my turn. I was happy with the progress we’ve made in the championship since my setback at Hangtown, and I was excited to try and keep my championship. That obviously won’t happen now, but I have a good team around me and will focus on getting healthy again and coming back at 100 percent. I look forward to cheering on Hunter and doing whatever I can to help him the rest of the series.”
Earlier this year, Jett earned the AMA Supercross 450 Championship, which was the seventh professional AMA crown of his young career. Having scored four of five overall wins so far in his AMA Pro Motocross 450 title defense, he currently sits a close second in the points standings to brother and teammate Hunter Lawrence.
“We’re fully behind Jett and will support him through his recovery,” said Lars Lindstrom, Manager for Team Honda HRC. “It’s pretty crazy that three of the championship’s top riders have now been sidelined with the same injury, especially one that’s typically pretty rare. Of course it’s disappointing, but even though Jett has won the last seven championships he’s competed in, he’s still so young and has a lot of success ahead of him. Physically he’s a freak of nature and a specimen, so to keep it that way, allowing him to heal to 100 percent is the goal. With Hunter currently leading the points chase, I like our chances of keeping the AMA Pro Motocross 450 Championship with Honda, and we look forward to working on that this weekend at RedBud. In the meantime, everyone on the team and at Honda sends their love Jett’s way; we’ll miss having him on the line!”
Let’s go Hunta 🤝
Sonuvabitch.
That sucks.
Who took the "anybody but Jett" bet on betonline.com? Was that even a real thing?
This is what can and does happen to these guys and no matter who wins the championship I don't wanna hear about no fucking astrix.
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Year of the the thumb.
This sux major balls
Yeah it fucking sucks but things just got interesting. Can Chase stand up to the pressure now that he’s expected to win it all?
This is my question
Shoulder now has time to fully heal.
And he'll be working those legs like a man possessed.
He can if he backs it down for 10 minutes, gets the feel of the bike and then goes.
And maybe that "goes" is 97% not 105% for a little bit of a safety margin...
Either way, Hunter v Chase and anyone else who can get in the mix should be VERY interesting from now on!
The surgeon in Colorado...
I am currently pouting.
FOCKKKK
My vagina hurts now
The entire mx community when a UCL claims another rider in 2024
Also relevant when Friese does his thing...
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These guys must be sitting on their thumbs a bit too hard. Shit’s dangerous
We got ourselves a season, boys
damn Jett , heal up brotha 👌🏾 we’ll see u in the fall & lokey this prolly a blessing in disguise cause he gets to heal & treat tht shoulder properly
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I was actually thinking recently about making a thread about ppl predicting how many years it will be until we see the 18 instead of the 1 on the red bike. Would it be 2,3,5,7 years? Apparently itll be next years mx season… damn!
Well I was just guessing.
https://www.vitalmx.com/forums/moto-related/2024-450-outdoors
Does this light a fire under chase?
Not saying it wasn't interesting before, but I agree. Now the question is can chase keep having good rides and can hunter finally gets the wins be deserves. Hunter has gone through so much, its his time to get some winning done.
And there’s ilovemoto with his photo comments
this sucks,
also goes to show just how bad ass RC was, 10 straight years of winning outdoors, and would have been 11 if he could have bothered doing a few more races,
Please send me the lotto numbers. I'll give you half and I ain't kiddin'.
I was just talking about that with my brother after this news broke. Honestly I think it's even more impressive than his 2 undefeated seasons. Never missed an outdoor championship and won every single one of them. Insane consistency especially given how fast and dominant he was
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Well that makes it a lot less interesting season. Heal man the thumb is really important even if you barely hang onto the bars. I went with the 1099 Chicago Russian mob trucking to get a racing budget. Not knowing if I could hang on since my elbow nerve surgery has my pinky & next finger numb threw my hand into my wrist. But my thumb is good but not really a ligament on the inside is real painful. But I saved up got a bike changed my style a little to compensate for a bad hand. Basically a mod version of Jett,s style. More torso movement. I was happy to say that I rode wo 1st lap jumped everything without walking the track. 04 cr125 & stock tacky grips helps a lot. A massive amount of other injuries but change your style and you can haul azz yet injured. 1-2 hrs of speed sit ups helps. Is that injury like game keeps thumb ? I did that I layed my thumb onto my forearm. I kept working 7 days a week on the hhg rig but that let to 5 more major injuries.
I don't see this being good for hunter, both in terms of losing his brother and teammate on the track, but also with what it does to chase. Chase has spent his entire 450 career being made to feel like he's second place to eli and now Jett. He's pushed harder than he should and crashed a lot and never has really been able to just set the pace. I think he can now and I don't think hunter can hang with an in control chase. We'll see though!
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