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Gareth Fullerton

North West 200 riders forced to withdraw from race over tyre safety issues

A number of riders were forced to withdraw from the feature race at Saturday's North West 200 because of tyre safety issues.

Dunlop Tyres made the call to organisers after discovering an issue with their Superbike-spec slick tyres.

That resulted in riders including Michael Dunlop, Davey Todd and Peter Hickman having to withdraw from the final blue riband race of the day.

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