prevented him from exploiting his usual strength in braking in Race 1<\/a>.<\/p>\nHe was running in third place when the race was stopped for an oil spillage on the exit of Juniper Chicane, and admitted that, even though it was \u201ctough\u201d to lose his streak in a race that didn\u2019t reach its regulation distance, he himself had been declared the victor in similar situations in the past.<\/p>\n
\u201cFelt super-strong in areas, but I don\u2019t feel like I rode like me \u2013 I\u2019m coming down to Metropole and I\u2019m out of control in a straight line, out of control to Magherabuoy,\u201d Irwin told BBC Sport NI after the Race 2 result was declared.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cDon\u2019t feel like we attacked anywhere, we were cruising through Juniper Chicane.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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\u201cIt is what it is, it\u2019s another podium, 13 consecutive podiums on a Superbike here,\u00a0 12 victories.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cOf course, to lose a win streak in this manner is tough, but I also won races that were stopped after two laps \u2013 so it\u2019s worked for me previously when perhaps my streak would\u2019ve stopped much earlier.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cYou win some, you lose some in racing.\u201d<\/p>\n
Irwin had also had his reservations about racing at all, the Nitrous Competitions Ducati rider feeling the Panigale V4 R was especially difficult to handle in what were windy conditions on the north coast of Northern Ireland.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ll be truthfully honest, after the first warm-up lap I said to Steve Plater, who\u2019s like our rider liaison officer, the wind was bad out there,\u201d said Irwin.<\/p>\n
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\u201cIf they had have called if after the race, I made the comment about the wind because I didn\u2019t think it was so safe. I guess it\u2019s a little bit bike-specific, we struggle so bad with stability in the wind; speaking to Brookesy [Josh Brookes] and that I can\u2019t go in a straight line at all.\u201d<\/p>\n
He added: \u201cHand on my heart, I didn\u2019t think conditions were that safe out there with the wind, I made that clear before, so other than feeling the pressure of having to go out and fight for a victory, deep down I\u2019m glad we\u2019re not going back out there today because that was my feeling.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThe racer in you would love to have had a shot to make amends, that\u2019s one of those.\u201d<\/p>\n
North West 200 event organiser Mervyn Whyte spoke after the race<\/a> and explained that the race was not restarted due to time constraints, with the roads being required to open at 18:45.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Glenn Irwin says losing his Superbike win streak at the North West 200 after Race 2 for the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":660670,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,28425,85],"class_list":["post-660669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-road-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=660669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/660670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}