Jett Lawrence and Eli Tomac won one moto and finished second in the other in Round 1 of the 2024 SuperMotocross World Championship. Lawrence scored the overall win and three additional points via the tiebreaker.

Returning from a thumb injury, it didn’t take long for Lawrence to reestablish his dirt bike dominance with the third win of his SuperMotocross career in four starts. Lawrence won Rounds 2 and 3 of the inaugural SMX Championship last year at Chicagoland Speedway and the Los Angeles Coliseum.

With this victory, Lawrence has now won eight of the last 10 races he’s entered, finishing off the top step of the podium only in the Monster Energy Supercross season finale in Salt Lake City, Utah, and in Round 2 of the Pro Motocross Series after crashing in Moto 1 of the Hangtown Motocross Championship.

Lawrence is now second in SMX points with a close, four-point deficit to Chase Sexton

Tomac showed speed throughout the round. He earned the holeshot in Moto 1 and did not relinquish the lead through 13 laps. It took a while for Jett to get around his brother Hunter Lawrence in that race, and he could not make up for the deficit, finishing five seconds behind. In Moto 2, Tomac led the majority of the race, but when he got squirrelly in the finish line straightaway, he became overly conservative in the next several turns and lost the lead heading into a tricky sand section. He claimed second overall.