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Michael Dunlop Biography
Motorcycle racer known for being a member of the famed Northern Irish Dunlop racing family. He’s largely raced in Tourist Trophy competition, earning more than a dozen podiums at the Isle of Man TT.
He grew up surrounded by racers, including his father, brother, and uncle. He started racing professionally in 2007.
He’s raced for BMW and Yamaha. His first 250cc victory came at the North West 200, a race his father died practicing for.
He was born to Robert and Louise Dunlop, and has a brothers named William and Daniel.
His late uncle was Joey Dunlop, who was a world champion racer.
Michael Dunlop (born 10 April 1989) is a Northern Irish professional motorcycle racer. Part of a motorcycle racing dynasty, Michael is the brother of the late William Dunlop, son of Robert and nephew of former World Champion Joey Dunlop.
He made his TT debut in 2007, where his best finish was 25th in the Superbike TT. He made the decision to ride in the 2008 races at the last minute after the death of his father at the North West 200 earlier in the year. He finished 10th in the Senior TT with a fastest lap of 124.773 mph, making him the fastest Dunlop around the TT Course. Dunlop joined his father and uncle Joey in the record books in 2009 when he won the Supersport TT race on a 600cc Yamaha.
Dunlop has also won at the North West 200, recording his only victory to date at the 250 cc race in 2008. His father was killed during practice for this event.
Dunlop took part in the Classic Superbike race at the Manx GP on Friday 31 August. He took the win in the Classic Superbike race at the Manx Grand Prix 2012. This was his sixth title on the Mountain Course and his third Manx Grand Prix race win following his debut, and victory, in the 2006 Newcomers MGP race. During the two-week 2012 Manx GP Dunlop worked in the pits for a team in the 600 Junior Race.
At the start of the 2015 Road Racing season, Dunlop had a poor start with race team Milwaukee Yamaha, and during the practice week of the 2015 Isle of Man TT, he dramatically left Yamaha to rejoin his previous team, BuildBase BMW, in order to give him the best chance of a good result.
During the 2016/2017 closed season there were various rumours of possible proposals for 2017. After Hawk Racing’s switch from BMW to Suzuki for 2017, Dunlop signed for the Bennett’s Suzuki Racing Team campaigning the new Suzuki GSX-R1000 as part of a four-man squad. Dunlop will concentrate on International road races with team mates Sylvain Guintoli and Taylor Mackenzie in British Superbikes and Richard Cooper in National Superstock 1000.
Dunlop opened his account at the 2016 Isle of Man TT Races in the Superbike race, which he led from start to finish. Astride a BMW S1000RR, Dunlop bettered the existing absolute course speed record attained during one-lap, also setting a new average speed for the six lap race of 130.306mph in a race-record time of 1 hour, 44 minutes, 14.259 seconds for the 226 miles of racing. In addition Dunlop also won the prestigious John Williams Trophy.
In February 2016, it was announced that Dunlop would again ride BMW in the Superbike class at International road races during the 2016 racing season, provided by Hawk Racing. The announcement was made at the MCN Motorshow at the Excel, confirming that Dunlop will be riding the 2016 BMW S1000RR.
He is a former solo-machine lap record holder for the Snaefell Mountain Course set during the 2016 Senior TT in a time of 16 minutes 53.929 seconds at an average speed of 133.962 mph (215.591 km/h). Dunlop was the first rider in the history of the Isle of Man TT to achieve a lap of the course in under 17 minutes.
The qualifying week for the 2017 Isle of Man TT was plagued by poor weather. Following a sporadic week of qualifying the first race day was given over to additional qualifying and practice, which meant the curtain raiser to the meeting, the Superbike TT, was postponed for 24 hours.
Dunlop won the opening race of the 2018 Isle of Man TT with a race time of 01:44:13.398 and an average lap speed of 130.324 mph (209.736 km/h).
After some pre-season testing with the Tyco BMW squad, Dunlop made his way to the curtain raiser to the Irish Road Racing season, the Cookstown 100. Qualifying third fastest in the Superbike category Dunlop opened his 2018 campaign by taking victory aboard his MD Racing Honda in the Supersport Invitation race.
At the end of March, 2018, it was announced in a press release by TAS Racing that Dunlop had been signed by the team to campaign factory BMWs in the premier racing categories of the 2018 racing season.
He won the Armoy road race on 27 July 2019 just 16 days after breaking his pelvis. The victories were Dunlop’s 18th and 19th around his home circuit at Armoy.
What's Michael Dunlop Net Worth 2024
Net Worth (2024) | $1 Million (Approx.) |
Net Worth (2023) | Under Review |
Net Worth (2022) | Under Review |
Net Worth (2021) | Under Review |
Net Worth (2020) | Under Review |
Michael Dunlop Family
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