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September 14th. 11:00 p.m.

One more year of world motocross has ended up succesfully.  Tyla Rattray and David Philippaerts are the new MX2 and MX1 world champions. Parties, smiles and confetti.

But the motocross community will never be the same. Motocrossvirtual is now IN.

In this past season, Motocrossvirtual has born, and collected more than 1500 virtual teams from 51 different countries around the world.

A new way of living races raised up, and now it will be a reference for races in the future.

Congratulations to Willem from Eerbeek (Netherlands) for his global victory and to all national winners. In the next days a list with all of you will be published.

Motocrossvirtual is working hard to be ready to the Motocross of Nations, and next will be the AMA Supercross Championship. Guys, get your minds around, it’s only the beginning, and the word will never be the same.

In the next few days you’ll receive instructions to subscribe to the Motocross of Nations.

THANKS TO ALL FOR THIS GREAT SEASON

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!

A Dutch team from Oschatz is the new leader of the Motocrossvirtual series after the second and third round: Bellpuig in Catalunya, Spain and Agueda in Portugal.

Little things to say about the first, where the rain falled from Friday night and the extremely muddy track became in very special results and a cancelled second moto in the MX1 category.

So, low points at this GP, with 155 for the winner of the event, WORLD RACING from Italy.

Next was Agueda in Portugal. Great motos and spectacular victories for Cairoli and Philipaerts, whick make them world championship leaders.
Good race for Team pul’s motors with 251 points, followed by mlv racing and Triple 3 racing.

So, in the main classification, Kawa East is leader above Freedom MX from Andorra, who is getting closer step by step, point by point.

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

Although the original diagnosis of a broken shoulder blade has proved to be correct Tanel and the Kawasaki Racing Team remain focussed on round one of the world championship at Valkenswaard in April.

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