Date: 25th April
2010
Coppins experiences tough day
in Valkenswaard.
The 3rd round of the
FIM MX World championship welcomed a strong crowd to the
‘Eurocircuit’ in Valkenswaard, the Netherlands, over
the weekend. Factory Aprilia racer, Josh Coppins, enjoyed the warm
weather but could not take advantage of the treacherous sand
conditions and his 10th place qualifying position as he lined up
for moto 1 on Sunday. A first lap crash with Italian Manuel
Monni left Coppins eating Dutch sand has he remounted and gave chase to the
pack. The Kiwi’s efforts were short lived when he collided with
a fallen rider and damaged the clutch perch of his Factory aprilia
machine had to retire from the race.
In the second moto Coppins
didn’t get the jump he needed and was a little tentative on the
open laps trying to avoid any mishaps as in moto 1. As he settled
down ‘Lizzard’ he gained a few positions as he broke into
the top 10. A 9th position by the end of the 35min + 2
laps was not enough to make up for the shortfall in moto1.
“The racing is so close this
year and sometimes you have to take risks but today they never paid off for
me. I can’t afford not to earn points in both motos because it
seems a lot of the guys are getting more consistent and having a 0 on the
score card really hurts. My goal is to get back into the top 10 after
Portugal and Spain and to post two consistent race results. “ vowed a
determined Coppins.
Coppins will take part in round 3
of the British MX champs in Duns next weekend before heading to Portugal a
week later for round 4 of the MX World champs.
Image: CDS
Race results:
MX1 Race 1 1 Cairoli,
Antonio ITA KTM 2 Philippaerts,
David ITA Yamaha 3 Ramon, Steve BEL Suzuki 4 Nagl, Maximilian GER KTM 5 Leok,
Tanel EST Honda 6 de Dycker,
Ken BEL Yamaha 7 Guarneri,
Davide ITA Honda 8 Albertson,
Jimmy USA Honda 9 Bobryshev,
Evgeny RUS Honda 10 de Reuver,
Marc NED Suzuki 11 Boog,
Xavier FRA Kawasaki 12 Swanepoel,
Gareth RSA Honda 13 Monni,
Manuel ITA Yamaha 14 Strijbos,
Kevin BEL Suzuki 15 Söderström,
Tom SWE Yamaha DNF Coppins,
Joshua NZL Aprilia
MX1 Race 2 1 Cairoli,
Antonio ITA KTM 2 Ramon, Steve BEL Suzuki 3 Leok, Tanel EST Honda 4 Philippaerts,
David ITA Yamaha 5 Bobryshev,
Evgeny RUS Honda 6 Nagl,
Maximilian GER KTM 7 de Dycker,
Ken BEL Yamaha 8 Albertson,
Jimmy USA Honda 9 Coppins,
Joshua NZL Aprilia 10 Swanepoel,
Gareth RSA Honda 11 Guarneri,
Davide ITA Honda 12 Strijbos,
Kevin BEL Suzuki 13 Pourcel,
Sebastien FRA Kawasaki 14 Monni,
Manuel ITA Yamaha 15 Boog,
Xavier FRA Kawasaki
MX1 GP Overall 1 Cairoli, Antonio ITA KTM 50 2 Ramon,
Steve BEL Suzuki 42 3 Philippaerts,
David ITA Yamaha 40 4 Leok,
Tanel EST Honda 36 5 Nagl,
Maximilian GER KTM 33 6 de Dycker,
Ken BEL Yamaha 29 7 Bobryshev,
Evgeny RUS Honda 28 8 Albertson,
Jimmy USA Honda 26 9 Guarneri,
Davide ITA Honda 24 10 Swanepoel,
Gareth RSA Honda 20 11 Strijbos,
Kevin BEL Suzuki 16 12 Boog,
Xavier FRA Kawasaki 16 13 Monni,
Manuel ITA Yamaha 15 14 Pourcel,
Sebastien FRA Kawasaki 13 15 Coppins,
Joshua NZL Aprilia 12
MX1 World championship
standings: 1 Cairoli, A. ITA 138 2 Nagl,
M. GER 120 3 Ramon, Steve BEL 101 4 Philippaerts, D. ITA 100 5 de Dycker,
Ken BEL 94 6 Desalle, C. BEL 79 7 Boog, Xavier FRA 70 8 Leok,
Tanel EST 66 9 Barragan, J. ESP 56 10 Guarneri, D. ITA 56 11 Albertson,
J. USA 55 12 Bobryshev, E. RUS 53 13 Swanepoel, G. RSA 51 14 Pourcel,
S. FRA 50 15 Coppins,
J. NZL 49
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