Josh Brookes will replace Michael Dunlop for Paul Bird’s team at the NW200. No mention of TT .

 “Two-time British Superbike king Josh Brookes will replace the departed Michael Dunlop in Paul Bird’s MCE Ducati team at the upcoming North West 200. 
The dramatic parting of the ways between Bird and one of road racing’s greats may have deprived Irish fans from seeing their hero on a Ducati V4 RR but it has delighted Brookes who has jumped at the opportunity given to him by the PBM team to return to the nine-mile triangle.
No stranger to road racing, the Australian has competed on the Isle of Man, including outings on the ‘works’ Norton, and scored a couple of podiums at the North West. On the Ducati V4RR he will be astride one of the fastest bikes on the nine mile circuit and expected by Bird to ‘kick bottom’. “