No time to celebrate 250 SX East championship, Jett Lawrence aims to carry momentum outdoors, help Hunter Lawrence

With his second-place finish two weeks ago in Foxborough, Massachusetts, Jett Lawrence wrapped up the Monster Energy 250 East championship with one round remaining, but he has not had any time to rest on his laurels.

After a quick round of Top Golf, Lawrence and crew “came back and went to the chalkboard,” he told NBC Sports before the 250 West riders mounted up to tackle Denver for their penultimate race. “I still have to back up my other title.” 

Lawrence referenced his impending defense of the Lucas Oil Motocross championship that he won in 2021.

To refer to any athlete as an overnight success does them a disservice, but it’s difficult to avoid noticing how quickly Lawrence became a threat to win races and titles.

After a 2019 Motocross season that saw him ride only three rounds at the end of the year, he posted modest results in 250 West the following spring with only one podium finish in six rounds. Later that year, he finished fourth in Motocross points and won his first race in his final attempt at Fox Raceway.

He continued to win in 2021 with a victory in his second Supercross race that season and a third-place finish in the points. Then came the 2021 Motocross championship, and now back-to-back titles in the stadium series.

But success has not gone to Lawrence’s head because there are other things to consider.

“I don’t know actually, because I haven’t really stopped and thought about it much,” Lawrence said. “I’ve just been working, working, working, working. So, it’s like I haven’t had time to stop and think about it – but coming into this, in America, my goal has always been to be successful and that hasn’t changed while it’s playing out.

“It still is the same now. But to have this much success this early,