I'm Welcome everybody to the Racer X podcast show.

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I'm your host Steve Mathis,

and this is a real special show because we're going international with this one, folks.

That's right. I sprung for a phone call to Belgium. I had to do this podcast super early in the morning, people. I hope you appreciate it. This podcast and all of the RacerX podcasts are available on iTunes for your downloading pleasure.

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This weekend is the World Motorcross Grand Prix season opener in Fienza, Italy.

I hope I said that right.

And all of New Zealand and everyone in Las Vegas is hoping that our guest this week,

Josh Coppins, will finally break through and capture the MX1 world title.

He's due, folks.

Joshers finished second in the championship twice, third twice, fourth once, and fifth last year.

So he's right around there, and clearly I think it's his time the the problem being here is that

there is a ton of talent in Europe and it's not going to be easy for him the GPs have so much

parity and so many different tracks that I think the only thing you can say for sure is that you

cannot predict who's going to win and when they're going to win the man who's consistent through all the races all over the world is the one that's going

to capture the title.

My money is on the lizard, but then again, I'm emotionally invested with him, having known

him for a few years now.

I hope he does it, especially after his heartbreak in 2007 season where he had that huge

lead in the points, and then one of the scarier crashes I've ever

seen flew through a fence and got hurt. I hope he's not listening to this part, so he doesn't

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