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The Team Honda HRC squad is looking forward to the battle brewing between the Lawrence brothers this weekend in the 250SX showdown at the final round of Monster Energy Supercross this weekend.

As the series comes to a close in Salt Lake City, both Jett and Hunter Lawrence have expressed excitement to face-off as the 250SX West and East classes collide this weekend.

The elder of the duo, Hunter, is still in contention for the 250SX West championship, 20 points back from current points leader Justin Cooper (Monster Energy Star Racing Yamaha), so he’s looking forward to having a teammate on the track as he battles for the championship.

“It’s a special circumstance for sure,” Hunter explained. “Just due to the position that I’m in and Jett’s position obviously. Me being quite close in points with third and the championship still on the line. It will be cool to have another teammate out there – we’ve been flying solo all year long.

“It’ll be cool, but I mean hopefully, it would be best-case scenario that Jett and myself are both on the box one and two, that would be really, really cool.”

When asked about the situation, Jett’s response was classic of the 17-year-old, cracking jokes at his brother’s expense before agreeing that he’d be there to help if needed. He too is in line to seal a podium in the 250SX East standings, barring disaster.

“We’ll just have to kind of wait and see if he’s in a pretty decent position and if not, I won’t help much,” Jett laughed. “If he does need help, which he probably will because it’s Hunter, I’ll turn into the big brother and help pat him on the back a bit.”

This race at Rice-Eccles Stadium on 1 May will mark the first time in their careers that the duo has squared up at a Monster Energy Supercross race.

Team Honda HRC’s team manager Erik Kehoe is looking forward to the match-up also: “Everyone is looking forward to seeing Jett and Hunter face off in the East/West Showdown next Saturday.”