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Council agrees to stump up extra funding to safeguard North West 200 for 2023

Causeway Coast and Glens Borough Council have committed to contributing and extra £96,000 to the North West 200 in 2023 - taking their finaincial support to £275,000.

Coleraine and District Motor Club, organisers of the North West 200, warned the council earlier this year that the event was 'at a crossroads' and had grown beyond its control.

North West race chief Mervyn Whyte, 72, had said there was a “huge question mark” over the race, which went ahead in May for the first time since 2019 after the 2020 and 2021 events were shelved due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

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