Darren Lawrence interview - honest about his boys!

Darren Lawrence talks to Jonathan McCready with no filter about the journey to the top and the boys night at A1.

[@jeremeflynn722]

Love this whole interview. Would like to hear from more parents in the sport that have made it to this level. Favorite part was definitely the "for the haters- guess what motherf#ckers he is that good

[@damop4827]

Darren is a champion. Straight shooter. Hell of a nice bloke too.

[@JohnArmstrong-n5h]

Best interview ever, Darren your a Aussie in the USA showing the world how we approach the so called world champions of the world, with grace & humility. Love watching you guys kicking ass 😎

[@anthonyboulus9042]

As an Australian Dazzy is an absolute national treasure.. let's ogggg boyz

[@WS_00]

Is ogggg the same as goooo but in reverse?

[@bikemagic4965]

@@WS_00og is the original no bull get what you paid for classic

[@anthonyboulus9042]

@WS_00 yeah mate gooooo backwards. Stole it from the younger generation. Since they been stealing everyone else's things and stuff hahahahah

[@RealHooksy]

Good interview. He sounds like a great father and top bloke. It sounds like they are a great team and I wish them luck.

[@jefferymentzer1240]

Mr. Lawrence should be Father of the year..? 2024’ Mad respect for this whole Family…❤!

[@ZacharyThompsonRacing]

This was awesome.

[@RobertJones-ix2hu]

Awesome interview!!

[@spinkMS]

I was at redsands too in 2018, unreal.

[@onlygazza]

Cracking interview and nice to hear people say things as they are with no bull 👏

[@keithsmith8690]

Guess what Mofos... That big dog went WOOF WOOF WOOF!

[@timothymaher1205]

Representative for good Aussies good bloke

[@gigsy737]

Fantastic bloke, apples dont fall far

[@dangrimes5078]

What an awesome Dad.

[@MrBobbit666]

could not have said that better dazza mate! yas are doing us all more then proud down on this end of the world and i'll be watching every race of your boys till the retire and my boy loves riding he is 14 so he will be watching with me

[@AustralianSX]

Love this interview mate! keep it up!

[@Mintegra1]

What a class, straight talking bloke!.

[@stacyhejda5383]

Dazzy is great. Amazing family story.

[@douglayman1843]

Love watching Jett and Hunter race!

[@phil9634]

Daren deserves this time to enjoy life. Get in and get out. Like all the goats did. Sucks this sport has to get rid of greatness, cause if feelings.

[@thenickfamily19]

We knew jett was great. We just didn't know what we didn't know dazzy. And we have alot of racing left.

[@ADBAnt1]

Dazza is such a legend

[@dennisnbrown]

Cool interview

[@JordanEmede_376]

Little dig at ol sexton there 😂

[@MatthewC137]

I came here to see if anyone else noticed. 😂

[@dawso2o2]

We need a Daza fan page

[@jannikschmitz4695]

Great video men! Cheers

[@Benjamin8019]

Quentin Tarantino style: ‘Guess what mf’s, he is’. Love it!

[@alansands1908]

what a guy!!!

[@robertbullock4697]

Yep no American bullshit there..just pure straight talking Aussie 😂👌

[@JustBrewha55]

I wonder who he was pointing the finger at with "the previous pilot didn't do anything for the bike, so we had to start from scratch"....

[@dirkharvey]

Roczen, Chase, Canard.... Not hard to figure out.

[@splah01]

​@@dirkharveyRoczens 2nd season away from Honda....

[@Jonesaustin]

O’Mara

[@mototrials582]

What a difference a week can make. Where's your pride and arrogance this week dazzy?

[@kyledrake9750]

I agree with almost everything Daz said, but you can not be Ok with winning by only 1 second. That is begging to have a very interesting last corner.🤕

[@johnszwede8516]

At 60 km an hour 1 second is nearly 17 m plenty of space to win buy

[@Diga784]

As an ozi its 100% Hunter and Jett go boys.🛵🛵🛵🛵

[@Flexyhead]

Hard to find a man who has done so much for his boys, and just a genuine straight up bloke. Hard not to love Dazz. Anyone has anything negative to say, how many champions have you created ?

[@anthonyduzevich6421]

Such a great family man & tells it like it is & full confidence in his boys

[@hoodedcobra1531]

Crazy how much speed Jett can pick up when he makes a mistake and his speed he gets to close the gap up. If the rest of the guys don’t figure it out they will see the 18 win every race

[@stevenlaws8239]

Hunter had a tough day from start to finish. I can’t wait to see both brothers on the box this year

[@minzghor69]

Honestly i doubt that will happen hunter is 5-10 at best this year

[@RealDisrespecful]

haha funny you're clueless@@minzghor69

[@TiGarsSideway]

Hunter got it honestly he just need to get use to the 450 but I feel like he hurted himself on the fall and almost came back but it’s hard on the body when you crash like that at the start of a race , could’ve been way worst but hunter is not a tank like some other riders , still got up and finished the race tho

[@fudidle]

His practice crash looked like a hard hit, i dont think he was feeling right for the rest of the night. Then friese took out his front end, he had a couple hard falls that rattled him and he probably just wanted to finish the night without injury after that

[@Ballba365]

​@minzghor69 this aged well...

[@foshobmx]

Great interview he had no filter love it.

[@stevehartson2126]

Awesome interview! Love Darren!! No filter🎯💯🙌🏻

[@tally2755]

I love this interview! What a great family. This is the very best!

[@anthonyegnor6347]

That's right pops I agree with you. No more excuses from all these Jett haters.

[@anthonyboulus9042]

Best interview by far .. this is real deal

[@clarkgriswald1768]

He said. Let’s talk about the results of the two factory team riders. I’m like. THAT IS THE RESULT !!!! I have TWO factory riders !!! ❤

[@merccrewlcab2385]

One of the best interviews ever! So good! Dazzy is a smart man, so cool his folks are there too, what a treat for all of them!

[@louiedangelo3843]

jett aint no joke.

[@mikesampont6091]

Coolest Dad...So supportive and to the point.

[@FRCMoto]

"The previous pilots that were on this bike didn't dial it in at all." Hmmmm.

[@Iamwhostine]

Dang. I hear that as the previous pilot would have been far better with a set up bike… weird the previous pilot was so close all season without a dialed in bike.

[@jasonc1817]

Picked up on that too

[@macedhx]

Well i mean the guys like super different setups, if you see Keefer testing both Jett and Chase´s bike at Washougal they are polar opposites, Jett´s super suple, soft and forgiving and Chase´s Stiff and lower on the rear end so i guess the ¨Didnt dial it at all¨ comes from the fact that is a totally different setup for their riders

[@Iamwhostine]

@@macedhx right. But instead it was a stab at Chase. Its clear there is tension between those families.

[@Upthebroncos310]

@@Iamwhostinewell considering after the race chase said I’ll be better each week and look forward to batting with Eli and cooper more. Didn’t even acknowledge jett

[@fredmerkel1447]

Good onya Fellas 🏴‍☠️🏁

[@scooter1391]

I believe he's going to win win win everything that's possible and reset every record out there from the king to RC, stwart, tomac have set as long have he stay the way he is Laid back and free minded great family.

[@MiklaDfar]

Nice guy, you can see where the brothers get their demeanor from. No entitlement, just hard work and genes.

[@taybiljam]

haha yeah guess what mo fo's he is good no more excuses the most riders ever healthy and still winning easy . Luke he said he doesn't have to win by 20 sec aslong as he wins and that he did comfortably, but only round 1 I'm sure the rest will give him a challenge I'm just happy racing's back on let's gooo 👍👊💪

[@wednesdaysdisaster2141]

Great interview!

[@richardgarner3862]

Great interview except he had to use the mf’ers

[@DonGH297]

Seems like a genuine dude! More of this please😅

[@Dylan-180]

I love how daz tells it like it is, the haters on socials are such pussies. They would never say shit to someones face

[@wetdookie3808]

Dis dog went woof woof woof

[@gilesquivel6151]

Big fan of The Lawerence family.

[@RollForever88]

Northern Ireland in the mix. Where abouts?

[@robertduster8508]

It's nice when your dad's so humble

[@44sammy4]

Darren your a legend mate

[@bartdebuono]

The Honda HRC 450R is now the best bike in the field. Great job to the Lawrence Family.

[@israelrodriguez4718]

Jet makes it look so easy

[@mx118racer]

Suprised he didnt give greg moss some kudos for the early training the boys got . The boys are only young but have had a lifetime of very hard work, guideance plus natural talent . So glad the combo is successful 1000's of young mx riders and families have this dream but fall short. Fingers crosser for a long , safe and successful career .

[@cheerscob]

I was just going to write something similar. I'm also surprised he didn't mention Greg Moss, you learn alot when you are young and I imagine he would of taught them quite alot 🤙

[@Ty-dz9ed]

He has talked about Mossy in other interviews i have seen mate, if you are on social media surly ya would of seen greg posting pics all the time when they were snappers. Daz has thanked him alot

[@dbzgameplay9034]

He has always gave credit to Mossy, and those who know their background know that when he said the fundamentals were learnt before they went to Europe was a wrap for Mossy

[@brooksy2093]

@@dbzgameplay9034exactly, not to mention Dazzy still talks/confides with Greg regularly now.

[@mike-ku3ut]

drop the f bombs and act professionally.

[@marcodarco8901]

He is great - Jett!!!

[@mxlarge6915]

Makes me proud to be an Aussie when I hear Darren talk. No BS and sticking it to the social media idiots. Hope we get to see both Lawrence in MXGP in the near future. They will ONLY be loved if they came back to Europe.

[@yamahakid450f]

here's some stats of the current 450 class... If you include Prado's MX1 title, there's 8- 450 champions currently in the class and (If you count the SMX title for Jett) there's 4 multi-time 450 champions on the gate..Kenny had 2-450 titles outdoors that people forget about. I know it's supercross currently, but a 450 title is a 450 title regardless if it was indoors or out...and if Hunter made the main last weekend, there would of been 9 other riders that while they might not have a 450 title on their resume, they do however have 250 titles... That means, there's 17 guys currently in the 450 class that have won professional titles either indoors and/or out...and nearly half of those guys are 450 champions, which is absolutely insane. You've got 10 riders on the gate who have won atleast 1- 450 national or 450 main event, then 4 more guys who have gotten on the podium multiple times in the 450 class, two of which (AP and Mookie) are due for a win, and they both have the ability to do just that if things go their way...Especially if Mookie can find the speed he had in '23 before he got hurt, but he didn't look like that guy last weekend, maybe his bike settings were off or he's rusty from the time off due to injury. Jetts outdoor run was the deepest undefeated outdoor championship of all 4....Ricky had Tim Ferry that was runner up one year, '02 and '04 didn't have a single premiere class champion besides RC, and only there was 1 single 125 champion in the premiere class that year...which was Ferry who won a 125 regional title years prior, without winning a single main event... in '04 the competition was just as weak, but now Ricky was on a really good 450 instead of the CR250R, one of his all time favorite bikes he's ever raced. While his RM250 was much better than the CR250R for supercross/better bike in general, basically being a carbon copy of Reeds title winning YZ250, the '04 CRF450R on the other hand was far better than his 05 and 06 RM-Z450... The RM-Z had a lot of issues the first couple years...Although, in 05 outdoors Ricky ran a prototype thanks to a loophole in the rules, it was the last true WORKS bike in AMA racing, and in 06, he got put on the production bike...While it wasn't a great bike (just like the 06 kawi was terrible), it was their first 450 built and 4 stroke technology was new..Meanwhile Honda had their bugs worked out, and it showed when he went undefeated in '04. Ironically, the only bike to beat him in 2003 outdoors was a 450 piloted by kevin Windham, while RC was on the CR250R who had the throttle to the stopper. He beat ricky for 2 overalls that year and 4 motos...and then it took James until 2008 after RC retired in 2007 to win an outdoor 450 title, which also happened to be a perfect season. His biggest competition was Tim Ferry, and then Alessi that year....When him and RC battled, they'd put a minute on those guys. I'm more shocked the bike held together all season than I am James won every moto against those guys... BTW, James only won 3 overalls against Ricky from 05-07 outdoors, all of which Ricky crashed the lead away while checked out...in '05 RC went 22/24 motos and won all 12 overalls. In '06 Ricky won 9 of 12 overalls (James got 3, and quite a few first moto wins) and '07 Ricky won 6 of 6 overalls and all 12 motos during his partial season.... Meanwhile, Jett went against Kenny, Dylan, Anderson, Webb, all 4 of which have 450 titles... Don't forget the guys on the gate that have won 250 titles indoors and/or out and battlef for podium and race wins on a 450... Was Eli there? No, but the guy who was the new Supercross Champion and the same guy who took Eli to the very last round of outdoors with, i believe, a single point separating them going into the final 2 motos... and he straight up beat Eli multiple times in '22...Chase even said the pace felt higher than the previous year. Jett vs Sexton outdoors was like RC going perfect against James... it's very close to that and everyone picked Chase to win the title in '23 after seeing what he did against Eli, who's a 4 time 450 motocross champion...They call it weak, but besides Eli, name one single rider who was missing outdoors who could of ran the pace, and potentially straight up beat Chase and Jett for a moto or overall win?.....There was no one else. Hell, the rest of the field I mentioned could of never raced a single round, it could of just been Sexton and Jett on the gate together, and that still would of made that season the hardest/stacked year to go undefeated in compared to the other 3 perfect seasons, by far...just go look up those seasons and see for yourselves if you don't believe me. And honestly, Eli was struggling with stability at speed on the new chassis even in supercross because of the shorter wheelbase...he wouldn't of been nearly as good on the '23 outdoors as he was the '22 model, we saw how badly Dylan struggled on it and it was due to that very same issue...and with outdoors, there's next to no pre season testing going into round 1, and that bikes stability issue was a struggle to fix....i mean, they even tried the '22 models longer swingarm, changed fork rake, offsets, races, etc and it took all season to get it feeling better for Dylan...So I'm not sure Eli would of made much of a difference in Jetts run at a perfect season, and I'm saying that more due to the bike, not Eli's ability when he's comfortable and on his game...If Eli showed up on that '22 model, I think he could of won a couple but Jett would of still walked away with the title, especially if Chase is right about the pace being higher in '23 than it was in '22...and only he would know that. Eli is my favorite rider since RC, so I'm not hating, just being honest...With a full year the team has on the chassis, I think they could get the bike is a good spot for Eli going into outdoors, if he decided to race. Which, I hope he does, and I know Jett does too. Inside scoop, Hunter in hurt after his huge slam in press day and then his crash in his heat, which was his major issue in his LCQ...Rang his bell for starters, and there's some other stuff they got checked out this week. From what I've heard through the grape vine, they aren't sure if we'll see him racing this weekend or not.. Regardless, he's beat Jett straight up before on a 250 in Supercross, and the 450 fits both their styles well...Hunters got a lot less time on it, but he trains with Jett every day and his speed is up there with Jett during the week...So while it wouldn't shock me if he gets a podium this year, i really think it'll take a full year on the bike to get on the box in supercross, well, atleast to do it straight up without the top guys having an issue. Right now, he's anywhere from 5-10th place guy, which anyone in the top 10 are capable of podiums on any given weekend, if not a win under the right circumstances....and that's no bullshit either, will it happen?... not likely. There's 3, possibly 4 guys that are going to take the vast majority of the wins.. so even though its more stacked this year, I think we'll see less winners this year than last.

[@duckcommanderni2276]

great interview Andy, super cool

[@daneisenmenger4615]

Dazzy doesn’t mix his words up. What a guy, what a family, what an awesome representation of a salt of the earth Aussie family.

[@JordanEmede_376]

Guess what mother fvckers 😂😂😂 gotta love the whole damn family! ❤❤❤

[@Bu115y]

Great chat Jonathan, thank you .

[@rorycaldwell1382]

Class interview lad

[@jkell411]

#banfriese

[@kimcrews1721]

Haha hes mo fos suck it up. Best moto dad ever. Its facts

[@FurioRaptor]

🤔 Huge fan but not sure about calling your son dumb is appropriate…

[@Upthebroncos310]

Where you from?

[@JoeCairns-nh3yu]

He said it in a endearing way not in a spiteful way.. that’s just how Australians speak to each other..

[@kahutara818]

Hes having a laugh m8, clearly hes not dumb or he wouldnt be were hes at now

[@Jerry-LZ]

These are aussies, they are built different. Plus, this was the toned down version for the camera.

[@Upthebroncos310]

@@Jerry-LZ that’s right, if it was me I’d be saying he is as dumb as dog shit not rocks or a dumb c**t . In Australia a c**t is a way of calling someone your mate.

[@Olsnedzy]

How proud would you be as a dad !!!