Pit Beirer and Joshua Coppins dominated the opening race of the German Motoc🅰ross Championship, with Beirer taking the honours on home soil.

Whilst waiting for the next world championship round, in Bulgari this weekend, the German won the first two races in the saddle of the four-stroke Honda 450cc, while Coppins conquered t🐼he Superfinal𒈔 with the CR250R.

The Aichwald-based event, which too🌃k place in front of 7000 spectators, was blessed with warm sun which ensured that the track was hard and dry. Beirer won the first two heats - in the first, overcoming fellow German rider B𒊎ernd Eckenback, and, in the second, showing the confidence that the single-cylinder Honda CRF450R had given him at the GP Austria.

The event was useful training for Coppins too, as the second-ranked rider in the 250cc GP series triumphed in the Superfinal, after running with his team-mate and beating him by just a second. The New Zealander is now in second place in the German classification, with the next round at Bremen Hoo😼pe on 28 July.