Hunter Lawrence opened the 2026 Pro Motocross Championship with a perfect day at Fox Raceway in Pala, California, sweeping both qualification sessions and both motos to take his second Motocross overall victory. The result gave him the opener and, for the first time, a win over Jett Lawrence on that track.
For fans searching pro motocross results on Saturday, the headline was simple: Hunter Lawrence controlled the first round from start to finish. He topped both qualifying sessions, then won Moto 1 after taking the lead early from Mikkel Haarup and holding off Jorge Prado, finishing more than eight seconds clear of Prado. In Moto 2, he and Prado led into Turn 1 while Jett Lawrence and Haiden Deegan were mired in traffic early, but Hunter still rode to the kind of result that leaves no room for debate.
Prado stayed close enough to keep the pressure on and backed up his day with second in both motos for second overall. Jett Lawrence recovered from the rough start in Moto 2 and climbed to third in that race despite being stuck behind other riders early, but he still had to settle for third overall after going fourth in Moto 1 and finishing Moto 2.463 seconds behind Prado. Justin Cooper was fourth overall with finishes of third and sixth, while Deegan took fifth overall after placing fifth and fourth.
The race also carried some rough edges that kept the opener from becoming a clean procession everywhere else. Chase Sexton crashed on Lap 2 of Moto 2 and salvaged fifth in that race, while Aaron Plessinger faded late in Moto 2 to ninth as he continued dealing with the effects of a Supercross hip injury. Haarup’s early lead came in his debut on a 450 Triumph, a brief moment at the front before Hunter Lawrence took over on Lap 1 of Moto 1 and never gave the lead back for long.
That makes the bigger question after Fox Raceway straightforward: whether anyone on the gate can stop Hunter Lawrence from turning Pala into a place where he keeps writing the same result. He arrived with the fastest time in both sessions, left with the win, and did it by beating the rider who had never lost there before.
