John McGuinness has suffered a suspected broken leg after a practice crash at the North West 200.

The 23-time TT winner came off his Honda Superbike in Thursday afternoon’s practice session forcing the session to be red flagged.

Honda Racing tweeted: ’Red flag @northwest200 was unfortunately John, he’s conscious & is going to hospital with a suspected broken leg. Update when we know more.’

TT 2017 commences in only 16 days with the first practice session on Saturday, May 27.