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Chasin' The Racin'

#265 North West 200 Review [LEE JOHNSTON]

Chasin' The Racin'

Grace Rouse

Automotive, Leisure, Sports

4.9970 Ratings

🗓️ 17 May 2026

⏱️ 97 minutes

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Summary

This week on Chasin' the Racin', Josh and Christian are joined by North West 200 pundit, British Supersport racer and Youtube sensation, Lee Johnston to not only catch up with him but to deep dive into the 2026 North West 200. Enjoy - CTR x  

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0:00.0

I'll tell you what you do.

0:01.5

Both of you shut the fuck up.

0:02.6

This is episode 265 of Chasing the Racing Podcast.

0:08.9

Why did that go out of my head?

0:11.0

It does like it's plastered everywhere.

0:12.7

Yeah, does it?

0:13.4

Go on, you do the intro.

0:14.8

Welcome back to another episode of Chasing the Racing podcast.

0:18.1

This is episode 265.

0:19.8

And today I've got the, a very angry Josh Corner. He's already had a fight today over a caravan parking. Yeah, we're not talking about that. No, we will. And I was going to say, my friend, my colleague, my teammate, Lee Johnson on the... Lo, that is it? I'm actually more excited than Lee's here than you are, because you've... That happens quite often, don't worry me, that's a normal. All he's done all day is insultlessly. I've seen him twice, and all you've done is insulters. Well, you're wearing women's jeans, for one. Definitely not wearing women's jeans. You've got a strange mustache thing going on. It's not strange, it's just a moustache.

0:54.3

You must be the oldest fifth-year-old to have never gone through puberty.

0:58.1

Anyway, right.

0:58.8

Isn't that actually right?

1:00.2

Big thanks to our sponsors ever, right?

1:02.6

Diverted that straight away.

1:03.5

WSC performance and JCT truck and trailer, and this episode is can be sponsored by...

1:09.4

J.B. Racing, who have actually been in business now for nearly two decades, which when I read that start made me feel really old. So 2007, they started becoming, like, a big supplier into the sport. And, yeah, we're nearly two decades on. Can you imagine the amount of bikes they have saved in that period of day? Yeah. Or the amount of track a lot in it? That's frightening, isn't it? Even on a normal weekend, like there must be 20, 30, 40 crashes, more. It's probably more than just the number of bikes that crash because actually when, because the engine cover thing, the amount of bikes that then would have gone down on the... Oh, yeah, ruined the race for everyone else. What I didn't know, actually, is the... So the stuff you buy for your road bike is the exact same, like, standard as what is on Topracks World Suitable Bike, or actually every single one of Johnny Ray's World Championship... Championships with the Kawasaki had them exact things on. I thought they were, like, different for racing, but they're not exactly the same. Yeah, that's rare, I suppose. Yeah, like I couldn't think of another component where that is. Yeah. Well, Christians used to factory stuff, but as normal people like me and you, Josh. It's not really. This is true. Anyway, so we've got Leon because, yes, we're going to talk about, obviously, BSB started.

2:18.1

There's a lot going on in MotorGP. But we've just had the Northwest, the real start of the road season, because there has been a Scarborough or two and stuff like that. But, yeah, you've been out doing your BBC work. Now you've hit the big time and you're in this trailer. but obviously we're just going to do like a bit more on the northwest because yeah, it's been been cool really. Yeah, and it was first year for a couple of years. I'd had like super bad weather as well because I've known the last year has been pretty decent haven't there for the sun and stuff. I think, um, yeah, it was and it was the fact that it was like quite bad for a little chunk of time so

2:53.5

the first i remember it was the first day or the second day where it rained a lot but one it did

2:58.0

there was a lot of a lot of um sorry it was the first day because there was quite a few this

3:04.2

there's something confusion at the northwest so even as a p a pundit, which I know how I'm,

3:09.5

the information you get sometimes isn't always clear.

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