Mid-Antrim 150 cancelled

One of Northern Ireland’s biggest road racing events- the Mid-Antrim 150- has been cancelled due to financial reasons.
Mid-Antrim 150 has been cancelled.
Picture by Stephen Davison.Mid-Antrim 150 has been cancelled.
Picture by Stephen Davison.
Mid-Antrim 150 has been cancelled. Picture by Stephen Davison.

The news was confirmed last night on the Mid-Antrim 150’s official twitter feed, they stated: “The club have taken the hard decision to cancel this year’s event, we aim to be back in 2015.”

Organisers have now said the aim is for the event, which was due to take place in August, to return in 2015.

Race secretary Derek McWhirter said: “We’ve been debating the financial side of things for a couple of months but we just couldn’t see how it would work.

“We’ve had a few bad years and that has taken its toll. We plan to return in 2015, perhaps on a different date.”

“The race made a huge loss last year so we’ve decided to sacrifice 2014 and concentrate on returning the following year.

“We’ve been in discussions with the Motor Cycle Union of Ireland and it is our intention to explore the suitability of an alternative date for the future.

“In the meantime, we will run an Irish Superbike round at Bishopscourt in July.”