Because I had such a good start to the year with the British Championship and I was so happy with the bikes, I think it made it worse. 'A massive part of my job is you have a crash, get hurt and that's it. Failing, like I'd let the team down, my sponsors down, let myself down and I don't know why. 'Obviously you have some bad days, but the biggest thing I suffered with was the feeling of letting people down. He added that the last thing he remembered was waving to fellow rider Conor Cummins leaving the pits, and his memory came back as he came out an induced coma 'four or five' days later.

Johnston says he is 'getting a lot better' since going to see his psychologist, and his mental scars are now beginning to heal alongside his physical injuries. 'It sounds crazy but that's what it felt like in my head'. 'I kept saying to Christie, I thought someone else went to sleep in the hospital and this person has woken up. 'I knew from within two days from waking up in the hospital that there wasn't something right. Now, with the more research I've done, it was to do with the trauma of the accident and what my body went through and what my brain has gone through. 'I was crying at random things, I don't know why or what. Not just physically, but mostly mentally,' the Ashcourt Racing rider added. 'Honestly, things have not been great since then. He says he is 'weak and fragile but we're making progress'. He suffered a broken femur, shoulder, fractured foot and face, broken ribs, a collapsed lung and internal bleeding. Johnston had received a blood transfusion on the golf course beside the circuit before being transferred to hospital, where he spent three days on a ventilator. The Supersport qualifying session was immediately red-flagged and Johnston was treated at the scene before being transported to Portstewart by ambulance and then airlifted from the circuit to the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast.

Johnston thanks everyone who helped 'save his life'.'I don't know what happened because I have absolutely no memory, but I know I tucked the front and I crashed.' 'I was having these massive episodes of basically having a meltdown and crying,' he said on YouTube. The Northern Irishman admits he can't remember anything about the accident.

Semi professional motorcycle racer