COLUMNIST EX-RACER & TEAM MANAGER RACE INSIDER
I'm fresh back from Northern Ireland after spending the week commentating at the North West 200, and I think we are all ready for a break. It was a strange old week, and despite dodging the bad weather for the most part (which is always a miracle at this event), things didn't go half as smoothly as we'd all liked - for vastly different reasons.
First of all, riders were dropping like flies, even