Guy Martin – a long-time supporter of the ‘Race of Legends’ – and William Dunlop will be among the big race favourites on the S1000RR machines for the Moneymore team at the eagerly anticipated Irish national meeting, which was officially launched on Wednesday afternoon at the Bayview Hotel in Portballintrae.
Dungannon team owner Ryan Farquhar will also make his racing return at Armoy for the first time since 2012 and is joined in the SGS/KMR Kawasaki colours by Jeremy McWilliams in the Lynn/McAuley Supertwins race.
McWilliams made his debut at the event in 2013 when he set the current lap record after finishing a close runner-up to Ballyclare’s Jamie Hamilton, who will miss the event this year as he recovers from the injuries he sustained in a crash in the Senior race at the Isle of Man TT.
