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The Steve Matthes Show on RacerX

Guest: Josh Coppins Apr 2008

The Steve Matthes Show on RacerX

Steve Matthes

Racerx, Motocross, Supercross, Steve Matthes, 051142, Professional, Sports & Recreation, Pulpmx

4.7878 Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2008

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

This week Matthes really outdid himself with getting World championship superstar and multi-time GP winner Josh Coppins on the show. He also managed to get Coppins to pay for the call, thereby saving us some money! Good job Steve.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the RacerX Canada podcast show brought to you by Shift Racing.

0:18.7

I'm Steve Mathis and i'd appreciate it if you guys

0:20.9

checked out shift dot ca for all the info on the latest shift gear listen people i'm on vacation here

0:27.0

in toronto after the last supercross so sorry for the short intro and all that other stuff i also

0:31.5

apologize for the funky sounding audio as i'm in a hotel and my levels and things like that are

0:36.4

just a little different so hopefully jason griffith can work as magic but seeing as i'm in a hotel and my levels and things like that are just a little different, so hopefully

0:38.0

Jason Griffith can work as magic.

0:40.5

But seeing as I'm on vacation, maybe you guys should all just count your blessings that there

0:43.6

even is a Racefax Canada podcast show.

0:46.8

The reason I really wanted to do the show and to go above and beyond for you guys was because

0:50.6

of my guest and the timing.

0:52.2

With the first FIM World Championship Grand Prix coming

0:55.0

up in Vulcan Swad, I wanted to get a GP rider on here to inform and educate all of us on what's going on

1:00.7

over there. So, I went out and got the best one that's out there. Team Yamaha run all these Josh

1:05.8

Cobbens. This QE lost the title last year when his breaks went out and he suffered a horrific

1:10.7

crash into offense. At that point in the season, he when his brakes went out and he suffered a horrific crash into offense.

1:12.3

At that point in the season, he had won most of the races and had a 104 point lead.

1:17.1

So, having lost that 104 point lead, which may be the biggest blown lead in the history of motorcost racing,

1:23.5

he's on a mission to get his first world title, and I really hope he gets it.

1:27.0

He should, barring any other horrific crashes, finish out the season strong, despite him injuring his toes and having a little bit of a problem this first weekend with getting through that.

1:40.8

I got to know the lizard whenever he comes over to watch the Supercrosses and also at the motocross of nations last year.

1:47.1

We have lots of fellow Kiwi friends and every Kiwi that I know is the coolest and nicest person around, and Josh is really no different.

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