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 Post subject: Re: Irish Road Racing
PostPosted: Sat May 14, 2022 10:07 am 
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More North West 200! https://www.bbc.com/sport/live/northern ... d/61277082

Gotta say, the BBC NI team is among the best in the world. Keith Huewen and Steve Parrish in the booth are exceptional commentators.


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 Post subject: Re: Irish Road Racing
PostPosted: Fri Feb 10, 2023 8:13 am 
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Tragic news: all road racing in Northern Ireland, including the NW200, is to be cancelled.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ir ... QLE6H2LhB0


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 Post subject: Re: Irish Road Racing
PostPosted: Fri Feb 10, 2023 8:47 am 
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The reason is pretty obvious, sadly

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Quoted costs for public liability insurance for 2023 have tripled, amounting to more than £400,000.

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 Post subject: Re: Irish Road Racing
PostPosted: Fri Feb 10, 2023 9:17 am 
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Ah man :( :( Will they still continue racing in Ireland?

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 Post subject: Re: Irish Road Racing
PostPosted: Fri Feb 10, 2023 9:31 am 
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The IOM TT might have the same fate in the future

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 Post subject: Re: Irish Road Racing
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Ah man :( :( Will they still continue racing in Ireland?


Isle of Man got this weird kind of government where the crown isn't monarch per se, but is head of state, so it is not part of the UK or Great Britain, but still part of the commonwealth (it is weird, someone probably knows better than me).

So what goes for Northern Ireland does not automatically translate to IoM. As for Ireland, no idea, it is an independant country (there's A LOT of history there, lol), but the main races of the scene is the ones in Ulster, so this is a huge blow for everything motorcycle racing on the British blow.


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Doesn't the IOM TT have a minimum number of races you have to do in the proceeding period. You can't just rock up and ride.

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 Post subject: Re: Irish Road Racing
PostPosted: Sat Feb 11, 2023 9:37 am 
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Terrible news :(

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The reason is pretty obvious, sadly

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Quoted costs for public liability insurance for 2023 have tripled, amounting to more than £400,000.

have to wonder how long before stuff like this starts to effect shorter circuits & stuff on 4 wheels in the region

surely they are dealing with the same increases - as some of those companies just simply want the sport as a whole dead (alongside the real estate agencies only caring about land value so they can build condos / Amazon warehouses (and or) the big box junkyards like Copart so they don't have to deal with rezoning of motorsport facilities when they gobble them up)


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 Post subject: Re: Irish Road Racing
PostPosted: Sat Feb 11, 2023 1:39 pm 
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Former racing champion Phillip McCallen said it was time spectators were charged to raise funds to cover insurance costs.

"It's an absolute disaster," he told BBC Radio Ulster's Good Morning Ulster programme.

"The general public have had free racing and free viewing for 50 years and some people expect that to continue but it can't.

"You don't go to Windsor Park and get in for nothing, so you shouldn't have free spectating at the North West 200, for example.

"It's about how we get that money from people into the organisation."

That's pretty surprising. I thought it was like in rallying with at least some ticket-access-only spectating areas.


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 Post subject: Re: Irish Road Racing
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Juihi wrote:
Ah man :( :( Will they still continue racing in Ireland?


Isle of Man got this weird kind of government where the crown isn't monarch per se, but is head of state, so it is not part of the UK or Great Britain, but still part of the commonwealth (it is weird, someone probably knows better than me).

So what goes for Northern Ireland does not automatically translate to IoM. As for Ireland, no idea, it is an independant country (there's A LOT of history there, lol), but the main races of the scene is the ones in Ulster, so this is a huge blow for everything motorcycle racing on the British blow.


Isle of Man is what’s known as an IAA (Independent Autonomous Authority), also known as a Crown dependency, in short it’s owned by the Crown but not ruled by and is self governing, they effectively run as their own country, collect and spend taxes as they see fit etc. Bit like Alderney or Jersey etc. The UK is responsible for their defence and represents them internationally (NATO, EU etc.) This is what Scotland will be if they vote for Independence. IAA is different from Devolved Administration (present how Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland is ruled). Northern Ireland has slightly more self governance power than Scotland and Wales, but not much.

It’s all very complicated when you start looking into it in depth and came about in part to appease the IRA.


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 Post subject: Re: Irish Road Racing
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It's back on! Insurance issue solved, North West 200 is on on May 7-13th.

https://www.motorsport.com/roadracing/n ... /10444060/


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NW200 begins today:

Schedule: https://www.northwest200.org/practice-race-schedule/

Streaming: https://www.bbc.com/sport/northern-ireland

No geoblock but does require a sign-in with an account (might have to input a faked UK postcode, I had an old account so I don't remember specifics).


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 Post subject: Re: Irish Road Racing
PostPosted: Thu May 11, 2023 5:44 pm 
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Seems like issues with the live stream atm:

https://twitter.com/BBCSPORTNI/status/1 ... 28481?s=20


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 Post subject: Re: Irish Road Racing
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https://twitter.com/BBCSPORTNI/status/1 ... 0448121857

We're having some technical difficulties with the live stream from the North West 200 but hope to bring you the action as soon as we can.


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 Post subject: Re: Irish Road Racing
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At least the radio feed works


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 Post subject: Re: Irish Road Racing
PostPosted: Thu May 11, 2023 6:15 pm 
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Finally works


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 Post subject: Re: Irish Road Racing
PostPosted: Thu May 11, 2023 6:33 pm 
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Works now. Supersport race got red flagged after half a lap, an incident at the roundabout, one fella has been treated by the medical staff (don't know who). Racing about to commence again!


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 Post subject: Re: Irish Road Racing
PostPosted: Thu May 11, 2023 7:34 pm 
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that was a very aggressive Supersport race! Great stuff, just kinda glad everyone got through that chaotic last lap! Great win by Davey Todd.


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 Post subject: Re: Irish Road Racing
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Another red flag


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 Post subject: Re: Irish Road Racing
PostPosted: Thu May 11, 2023 8:25 pm 
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I HATE red flags at road racing events. Hope no one is hurt. Seeley shows his worth though, untouchable.


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