Motorpoint British Supersport title contenders Alastair Seeley and Stuart Easton will re-ignite their rivalry tomorrow when practice starts for the 2013 North West 200.

The pair currently top the middleweight series and will go head to head in both the 600cc class and on Superbikes when racing gets underway on Thursday night and then again on Saturday.

"When we switch to the roads it is a different discipline.I will take it as it comes and see how things unfold in practice on Tuesday and Thursday. I won’t be giving it any big talk by saying that I will win but I’ve as much chance as anyone else and we’ll have a good dig at it," said Easton, who thinks that a good scrap between himself and Seeley is probably on the cards.

"If I do my job right it could happen but to be fair Alastair is the man to beat at the North West nowadays and he should have it covered. But that also means that the pressure is on him rather than me. After all, I’m just making my comeback."

Having stated publicly last year that he would try to equal Phillip McCallen’s 1992 record of five wins in a single day at the North West, Alastair Seeley is equally cautious about the ‘big talk’. Having won ‘only’ three races last year, the Carrickfergus man says he is in ‘stealth mode’ this season.

"I’m not going to predict any wins this year. If you say that you are going to do this or that and you don’t win then people only remember what you didn’t do rather than what you achieved.

"My main goal for 2013 is podium results in all the classes.’ he says with a wry smile. ‘With two podiums at Brands and two more at Thruxton we have had a strong start to the championship and shown that the Kawasaki can work with the Yamaha, which everyone says is a missile.

"Which ever bike I have ridden in the British championship in previous years has always been the bike I feel most comfortable on when I get to the North West and that will be the Supersport bike this year."