Jordan out for repeat success at 2026 North West

Northern Ireland rider Paul Jordan says he wants to achieve more success at the 2026 North West 200 after clinching his maiden win at the event in 2025.

The Magherafelt man took victory in the Saturday Supertwins race by almost 10 seconds from Michael Sweeney last year after Adam McLean and Richard Cooper collided and crashed out on the exit to Juniper Hill chicane on lap three.

"I'd been going to the North West for a very, very long time and to even imagine having a win beside my name is incredible," Jordan told BBC Sport NI's Stephen Watson on The BBC Bikes Podcast.

"With the North West itself the win was incredible but there was more from the North West itself that made it special with the results in the other classes because in fairness I was handed the win.

"We just have to go back this year and do it properly. I want to go into 2026 a better Paul Jordan than I was in 2025."

Jordan added that he was thrilled to be following in the wheeltracks of the likes of legendary road racing star Joey Dunlop and the other members of the Dunlop family in competing successfully in road racing.

"When I was younger, we used to wave the programmes at Joey and all the local lads and now to be that local lad finishing that final lap around the Triangle is fantastic and something I'll always treasure," added Jordan, who will compete for the Jackson Racing team again this season.

"As a child I used to go to Cookstown, Mid Antrim, Tandragee, all the little road races, and you looked at those guys as icons, and to do what they're doing now, I still pinch myself that I'm living this childhood dream.

"Every day I get up I'm very blessed now that I get to do this as a full-time job. I never thought I'd be in the position I am now, I just enjoy racing motorbikes."