Motorsport: Coppins ready to fire in Spain

Josh Coppins is ready to lift his game for this weekend's MX1.

Kiwi motocross wunderkind Josh Coppins is ready to lift his push for the 2008 MX1-GP World Championship up a gear this weekend at Bellpuig for the Grand Prix of Spain.

It is the second round of the series after almost two weeks of training and further recuperation from his broken toes.

The New Zealander has spent ten days at the home of former world champion Jacky Vimond in the south west of France and has been clocking up track kilometres that he desperately missed in the wake of his injury several weeks before the start of the GP campaign in Holland.

Coppins took a brave sixth position at Valkenswaard and insists that the time spent riding and training with coach Vimond, has been a positive experience ahead of the trip to Spain.

- NZ HERALD STAFF