In addition to his new Superbike, Dunlop will race a V2 once more this season along with the Scars Racing crew and his personal MD Racing outfit within the Supersport class, and has revealed on social media that he’ll proceed his partnership with Hawk Racing to run the V4.
Dunlop took three wins ultimately 12 months’s North West 200 as he ended his nine-year victory drought on the worldwide street race, which takes place on 8.9 miles of closed public roads on Northern Ireland’s north coast.
He adopted that up with 4 victories on the Isle of Man TT to stretch his successful record to 33 wins.
“Last year was good at the North West with three wins and it could have been more.
“It could be good to return and construct on it. I’m excited to get this undertaking going, however we might have performed with a lot extra testing.
“I think it is going to be hotter and heavier this year than it ever was.”
Dunlop says there’ll should be extra testing time to arrange the bike on the North West 200 “to get me into a better place of where I need to be”.
Despite the changes he must make for his new bike, Dunlop stated “everything is good and I feel good”.
“We know the project and we know the bike is good.
“It has stacks of potential, and hopefully we are able to make it match into place on the North West 200.
“I think there will be some great racing, but it’s going to be hard work. We’ve got a few hurdles and we need to sort them.”
