Stephen Walsh is the latest local road racer to opt to race in rounds of the Ulster Superbike Championship.
The summer months should be the peak road racing season but the insurance crisis means that the Irish championship that should of have got underway this weekend with the Kells Road Races will now not happen.
As a result, Walsh who races a 1969 Honda CB 350 in the classic category has been forced to look elsewhere to get his racing fix.
He has already contested the Cookstown 100 in Tyrone and the Pre-TT Road Races in the Isle of Man.
He also plans to enter the Armoy Road Races in Antrim in late July and has been accepted into the Manx Grand Prix in August.
Before these two road races he has decided to enter the Neil and Donny Robinson Memorial Meeting at the Bishopscourt Circuit in County Down on the weekend of July 15 and 16.
It is two years since the Ardfert man has raced on a Northern Irish short circuit.
“It is simple,” he said. “If the Irish Road Racing season was going ahead, I would not be entering the Bishopscourt races.”
The Mid Antrim 150 Club organised event takes over the same weekend that the Faugheen 100 Road Races in County Tipperary were scheduled to run.
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