Roads star William Dunlop will contest the Isle of Man TT, North West 200 and Ulster GP Superstock races on the new ZX-10R after striking a deal with Nick Morgan’s MSS Kawasaki outfit.

And he will also race in selected Pirelli National Superstock 1000 rounds using the specially prepared Ninja to work on his race pace and keep him sharp.

“If I’m really honest I wasn’t too sure about Superstock but when I heard we had the option of running with Nick and understood the whole package I became really positive,” said the Ballymoney man.

I’m excited to be doing it properly with testing and some BSB rounds which will mean I’ll be sharp for the TT.  Chris Dowds of CD Racing sorted the deal and as we both know Nick and his guys have fantastic knowledge and data on the ZX-10R in this spec. It’s been a long time since I’ve been in green and that was an old MSS ZX-6R which was great bike. The team seem a really relaxed group to deal with and that’s just how I like to go racing.”