Hunter Lawrence wins RedBud 450 Moto 2, takes red plate from Jett Lawrence

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.

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 Lawrence had a six-second lead before stalling his bike on the last lap.

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.

Jo Shimoda finished third in the first moto and was scored second overall.

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.

RJ Hampshire moved into fourth on Lap 3 around Cooper Webb and remained there until the checkers.

Deegan’s solid performance in Moto 2 salvaged some points.