Anyone who’s paid even a small amount of attention to the 2023 Northern Irish Road Racing season knows that it’s been a rollercoaster ride. Now that it’s May 12 and the 2023 North West 200 is officially underway, yet another spanner of controversy just got thrown into the works.
On May 11, 2023, the FHO BMW Racing Team officially announced that it is withdrawing its leading machines and riders Peter Hickman and Josh Brookes from the event, before they’ve even raced a centimeter.