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Last weekend MX1 and MX2 Motocross World Championship races made some important changes on the Motocrossvirtual classification.

Kawasaki’s Tanel Leok and Honda Martin’s Billy Mackenzie good results, combined with Anthony Boissiere’s 30 points andTyla Rattray/Tommy Searle tandem in MX2 returned the leadership to #20 team.  Nice picks for russell172 which put him 3rd on Irish GP and first again in the overall.

Bad luck for last leader, MCracing,  which only could make 168 points due to Barragán and De Reuver bad results. Now he’s second, 24 points behind the british team.

Mention needed too for bsksriders mxlifestyle, one of the first teams to register at Motocrossvirtual, and now third on the championship. Well done JaumeTGO! Glad to see you on the top again.

Only 2 races left, and all to decide. Now the most important thing is to look at the avaliable picks for your rivals, and take risk at the end. Full throttle managers! Good luck!

In the next weeks there will be announced several news and surprises on Motocrossvirtual. Keep in touch!

The Motocross MX1 and MX2 World Championships are in their final stage with three rounds left.

Dublin, Lierop and Faenza are last dates, and the battle for the titles willbe between Tommy Searle, Rattray, Coppins, Ramon and the italian David Philippaerts.

But… we are more interested in other classification.

With 2005 points MCracing is the first team in the classification list. The only one team from Macau made solid and consistent races to reach to the top. Not so spectacular positions on its road map, but always regular.

It gives him the provisional first position with three races to go, nineteen points above british Dresport-MX which is second, and fifty-eigh to WOODMAN RACING (Valkenswaard, Netherlands) which is the fifth team in the classification.

Only around 60 points between the six teams in the top, so, as the battle for the titles in the real life, the contention is open at Motocrossvirtual.

Good luck to all 1427 teams for the final races of the season!

Yamaha Monster Motocross Team’s Joshua Coppins is facing a rush to be fully fit for the opening round of the 2008 FIM MX1-GP World Championship in two weeks after an incident while training Saturday morning (22nd March) caused the New Zealander to break two toes on his right foot and undergo immediate surgery.

The 31 year old travelled to the Dunkirk circuit in France to begin his motos in the early stages of Saturday morning to avoid a crowded venue later in the day. However his intentions were curtailed after he crested a hill only to find a local rider picking up his machine. Coppins’ right foot bore the brunt of the subsequent collision as he caught the other bike’s footpeg. With counsel from renowned motocross surgeon Dr Claes, Coppins went under the knife successfully the same afternoon and did not require the insertion of any metalwork into the two smallest toes on his foot.

The natural healing process means that one of the strongest favourites for the MX1-GP title is now staring at the possibility of missing the first meeting of the GP series at Valkenswaard in the Netherlands on April 6th.

“I cannot believe my luck, this is the third injury in a row that I have had that was not my fault,” he said. “Valkenswaard is 50-50 at the moment. My foot has to heal naturally and we might run out of time; I’m not too sure how things will go at the moment. We will have to assess things over the next few days. I am trying to stay positive but clearly this was not what I wanted. It is a long season though and we have to keep looking ahead.”

Coppins had won races in Italy and France over the last six weeks in a promising pre-season period on the works YZ450FM. He claimed five grand prix victories in 2007 and was leading the world championship by 107 points until a freak accident at the Grand Prix of Czech Republic, four rounds before the end of the campaign, caused him to surrender what would have been his first crown.

More info at www.joshcoppins.com