I don’t want to leave saying
Icould’vedonethisor that, but
sure, I’d love to do supercross
INTERVIEW I HUNTER LAWRENCE
HL: Mostly German. It’s not the best but
I try to learn it because I spend a bit of
time there, because Ken Roczen’s dad
helps me out with a bit of training,
and I like it there; it’s closer to
Australia. It’s cool and I really want to
learn it more, because in Australia,
we’re such a redneck country and if
you ask the people if they speak
another language probably 98 per cent
of them would say no, like why would
you want to? Here everyone speaks
more than one language. Prado, for
instance, speaks five languages; that’s
cool and it’s something that I want to
do. I love it, I’m a full Euro now!
What are your short- and long-term goals?
HL: Short-term for me is to finish the
year off and then come in next year
ready to be a title contender. That’s
what I want to be; I set my sights high
and that gives me motivation and
drive, which makes me work hard.
Long-term? Before I leave, or if I was to
go to America, that’s the goal, but I
want to leave Europe [having
achieved] something. I don’t want to
leave saying I could’ve done this or
that, but sure, I’d love to do
supercross. That’s a goal of mine. But I
want to be a champion, outdoors,
supercross, everything; that’s my goal.ON KEN ROCZEN
Ken recently came back to Germany after
picking up an arm injury. You were hanging out
at his parents’ place while he was there. How
was that for you?
HL: It was cool, he’s a nice guy, a good
guy. We hung out and stuff. He helped
me with some start techniques, [he]
said I’ve probably got one of the worst
start techniques he’s ever seen, so he
helped me out there a bit. Also, just
some little things, like also with diet
stuff, like what he eats and stuff like
that. He’s at the top of the sport so he’s
really serious about that kind of thing,
with food, and fats and sugars, what toeat and what day; all that stuff. He
gave me a little insight on that which
was cool.
But it’s actually quite hard to
compare both of our training
schedules because in Europe you wake
up and do your gym and stuff in the
morning, then you wait a bit until
lunchtime, or you’re driving to a track,
do your riding, come home and do a
little bit of recovery and then you go to
bed. In America, Ken said the day
starts early, riding starts at 9am,
something like that, they do warm up
and gym before that and then riding
and gym again after. They have more
recovery time after they ride so their
day is very different. So, you can’t
really compare it. I’ve tried to add up
all the hours though, and I think the
Euros ride more hours because of the
GP format being over two days.
How’s your brother Jett settling in at Suzuki?
He has the EMX85cc championship coming up in
the Czech Republic, right?
HL: Yeah, he qualified second after
missing a round in Finland which was
a bit far away, right on top of the world
and about as far away from Australia
as you can get, depending if you go
over the top or underneath! But he’s
good, he’s liking it; we’re all in the
lifestyle of it now. Hopefully he can do
good, but we’ll see.108 | SEPTEMBER 2017 http://www.adbmag.com.auHunter wants to
eventually race in the USHunter trained
with Roczen