MICHAEL DUNLOP has announced that he will return to road racing at the 2019 IOM TT, less than a year after his elder brother William was killed in practice at the Skerries 100 last July.

North West 200 Event Director Mervyn Whyte has refused to rule out the possibility of John McGuiness racing the iconic Norton at the 90th anniversary event in May.

The Italian manufacturer took the wraps off its new colours, adorned on last year's Desmosedici bike, at its launch event at the Philip Morris R&D Cube in Neuchatel, Switzerland on Friday evening.

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Jorge Lorenzo is already impressed by the work of Honda in the two MotoGP tests in his first interview in new colours, while revealing that the bike already suits him better.