Both the superbike and senior are now run under the same regs which are homologated production superbikes with specified ecus and engine part restrictions, the Aprillia//Norton is allowed to run under the 'anything at the organisers discretion" exemption and is therefore not restricted like the rest of the field. I am not saying they are cheating just that the bike doesn't comply with the rules which the others have to. My understanding is the engine has been considerably worked on and was kicking out huge power, fair enough Norton don't produce road bikes which they can homologate but they should be limited to running a superbike spec engine/ecu and as the engine is an Aprillia which is homologated and for which there is a control ecu available  then it is easy to control and make a more  level playing field.

Coming from a 'Norton' family I object to the hijacking of this famous brands history, there is NO  relationship, DNA or or even tenuous connection with the real Norton, the new operation its just badge engineering. I've watched the tribulations with launching the American derived bikes, the quality issues, the customer service issues, the treatment of the suppliers and the amount of well respected engineering staff who have walked in short order (its all well documented elsewhere) The laughable Micky D return with the rotary bikes, I was told by one of the mechanics early in practice week that they had no parts and knew they could hardly do a lap. The first Apprillia which was an awful thing, far worse than an RSVR would have been, which eventually left Cam Donald thoroughly disheartened and they were given a TT award for engineering excellence or something!!!.

Yes they like to portray themselves as a gallant band fighting the odds but theres no shortage of cash to spend on massive headquarters and no shortage of public funds been injected, hopefully it won't all go up in smoke like some of its owners former companies which went into administration