Michael Dunlop ignored the effects of two slipped discs in his back to chalk up a memorable double win on Saturday in the 90th Anniversary Ulster Grand Prix on the famed Dundrod circuit, near Belfast. Dunlop opened the day with a confident win in the six-lap Superstock race riding the Ard Na Mara/McAdoo Kawasaki, to cross the line 4.037s clear ...
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- 13 August 2012
Michael Dunlop chalked up his first-ever win on the famed 7.4mile Dundrod road course near Belfast when he dominated yesterday afternoon’s Dundrod 150 superbike race. Dunlop ignored the effects of two slipped discs in his back that made walking agony but seemed to have little effect on him aboard the Hunts Motorcyles/McAdoo Honda. He had built a 3.37s lead by ...
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- 10 August 2012
Michael Dunlop added two more wins yesterday to make it a five-win unbeaten streak at this year’s Southern 100. Dunlop was in blistering form all week and kicked off Thursday’s day of racing with a S&S Motors-backed 600 victory in what, for four laps, was a thrilling battle. Conor Cummins initially led the five-rider scrap but then Jamie Coward took ...
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- 13 July 2012
Michael Dunlop racked up two more victories in the Steam-Packet.com Southern 100 yesterday to add to the 1000cc race win on Tuesday evening. Dunlop smashed the outright Billown lap record and set a new race record on his way to winning the Ellan Vannin Fuels Senior race that opened the evening’s four-race programme. Guy Martin gave chase on the Tyco ...
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- 12 July 2012
Michael Dunlop opened the 2012 Steam-Packet.com Southern 100 races with a blistering win in the Corlett’s Trophies 1000cc race last night (Tuesday). The MD Racing Honda rider quickly dispensed with fast-starting Ryan Farquhar to dominate the eight-lap, 34-mile race on the demanding 4.25mile Billown road course on the outskirts of Castletown in the south of the Isle of Man. Despite ...
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- 11 July 2012
We got back to hotel last night after practice had been curtailed by two incidents: a crash at Ballaugh that left oil on the course, and a huge oil spillage at the top of Barregarow. There had been too little time to get a road cleaner out to the course, clean up the mess and then allow the superbikes on ...
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- 02 June 2012
There I was, in the gym at 7.15am this morning – stupidly had a 15-minute lie-in and missed the doors actually opening – giving it max on the rower, listening to Manx Radio. And there was some chat of John McGuinness and Cameron Donald laying down their markers in the previous evening’s practice. Well if yesterday was marker laying, what ...
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- 31 May 2012
So there I was, sat in my hotel room at around 10 yesterday morning crashing out the MCN back page bits and bobs from Snetterton BSB. We’d just jetted into Ronaldsway from Birmingham (always sounds better if you adopt a sweet home Alabama accent). Okay, our bags were still back on the mainland thanks to a conveyor belt malfunction that ...
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- 29 May 2012
