The opening day of qualifying for the 2025 North West 200 was cut to just two sessions due to an𝓀 incident on-track that required air ambulance attendance.

Thiꦯs year’s North West 200 got underway under glorious conditions👍 on Northern Ireland’s North Coast, with four timed sessions originally scheduled.

The day began with the newcomers sessio🔯n, where debutants to the event ran speed controlled untimed laps to get a💧 feel for the course.

The first timed session of the day was for the Superbikes, though thiꦯs was twice red-flagged due to two oil spills.

The session was eventually completed, with Peter Hickman lead🐻ing the way for 8TEN Rac𓄧ing on a BMW with a 4m35.271s.

Honda's Dean Harrison was clocked🐓 at 209.1mph through the speedtraps on his Superbike, while he also topped the Supersport speeds at 185mph.

2025 North West 200 - Wednesday Superbike qualifying times

The two red flags l🌠ed to a lengthy delay to the overall schedule, with the Supersport class following before that s🥂ession was quickly halted.

Organisers confirmed🌠 during the stoppage that it was due to an incident onꦓ course.

BBC Sport later revealed that two riders were invol🐼ved, with one taken to a local hospital by road while a second needed to be airlifted from the course.

No further details have been given by the organisers, though they released this statem💫♌ent: 

"Two riders were involved ꦺin an incident at Mill Road roundabout on the NW200 course six minutes into the Su💙persport qualifying session at today's Briggs Equipment North West 200.

"Both riders were injured in the incident and the on course medical team att✱ended the scene.

"The riders were subsequently transferred to hospital, one by road ambulance and the other by air ambulaꦇnce."

Due to the road closing🐻 order in place, roads had to re-open at 3pm.

This meant that, when the Supersport session got back underway at around 2:45pm local time, there was time ꦇenough for jus💛t a few laps.

Richard Cooper was fastest in Supersport with a 4m36.484s ahead𒁏 of Dean Harrison and Michael Dunlop on his new V2 Panigale Ducati.

2025 North West 200 - Wednesday Supersport qualifying times