After posting a disappointing 16th overall at the Grand Prix of the Republic of Ireland last Sunday, Kiwi Josh Coppins' championship hopes are over for 2008.
"I am a little bit lost for words," Coppins said.
"For the last three or four races I feel that people have not really seen the real 'me' for a combinations of reasons and today there were some more.
"I started really well in the first race but Barragan or somebody touched me on the inside and I crashed off the side of the track. I was really going for that holeshot and it was just one of those things. I then rode well and came back from second-to-last to ninth.
"The second race was similar. Everyone went really wide and I got squashed out but I was not in a bad position, however when we came to the first table-top a rider was cross-rutted and touched me in the air. He then came up short and bounced into me on the landing and drove me off the track. It damaged the front of the bike. The wheel was locking and the triple clamp was bent so I came in the pits but we could not get it fixed before all the pack had gone past and getting even just a few points would have been hard; there was too much damage.
In retrospect my qualifying needed to be better. After the Czech Republic I wanted to come here and have fun. I really want to be in a race with the guys; that is where I belong," he concluded.
With two rounds remaining The Monster Yamaha rider sits 59 points behind his team mate David Philippaerts with virtually no chance to make up the gap.
