Determined to get back into the British championship chase and defend his 2004 title, Josh Coppins had the perfect result in Culham, at the fourth round of the British MX championship today.

Coppins and his CAS Honda posted the fastest qualifying time by over a second in the morning timed practice. The Kiwi backed up his pole position with two magnificent hole-shots and ran away with both moto wins on a tough but well designed circuit to sweep overall honours.

“I couldn’t have asked for a better result” smiled Coppins “The team and I have been working hard to get back into the championship and although I am still a way off the points lead our goal was to win both races and we did just that. It is going to be tough to reel in Cooper and Noble as they were consistent with their results today but we are only half way in the series now and anything can still happen. This is also a great boost for the GP in Namen next week. After being so close last year, I really want to win there.”

(Image: Ray Archer)

Race Results:

Race 1
1 Josh Coppins
2 Paul Cooper
3 James Noble
4 Jussi Vehvilainen
5 Yoshitaka Atsuta
6 Mark Jones
7 Neville Bradshaw
8 Glen Phillips
9 Mark Hucklebridge
10 David Campbell

MX1 – race 2
1 Josh Coppins
2 James Noble
3 Paul Cooper
4 Yoshitaka Atsuta
5 Jussi Vehvilainen
6 Glen Phillips
7 Mark Jones
8 Neville Bradshaw
9 Jordan Rose
10 Alex Rach

MX1 Brit. Championship standings:

1 Paul Cooper 213
2 James Noble 203
3 Jussi Vehvilainen 194
4 Josh Coppins 174
5 Yoshitaka Atsuta 164
6 Neville Bradshaw 140
7 Glen Phillips 101
8 Mark Jones 92
9 Mark Hucklebridge 81
10 Gordon Crockard 78