Michael Dunloꦬp has provided rare insight into his unique success without factory support, while working a normal 9-5 job.

Dunlop smashed the all-time record for Isle of Man TT race wins this year, overtaking his legendary uncle Joey’s tally of 26.🗹 Dunlop en꧃ded this year’s TT extending the record to 29.

Dunlop’s achievement is even greater because he isn’t ri😼ding or racing full-time.

He operates his own MD Racing outfit — with additional input from Hawk Racing (which in the British𒉰 Superbike Championship runs under the MasterMac Honda banner) on his Superbike-spec machines.

Dunlop stands out among the majority of his road racing rivals, who mostly ride for established teams which prepare the bike for🔯 their rider.

When he’♑s not on a bike, he runs his own construction company.

“I’m prob🅰ably the only rider, competitively anyway, that builds his own motorbikes, build🦋s his own engines,” Dunlop told .

“So for me, there’s a lo🦋t going on where most of the other, bigger boys are contracted riders.

“They all ride fꦅor a team or they’ve a generic team that looks after the bike, so they don’t do anything. They just turn up, ride and go ag𒊎ain.

“I’m 24/7 building engines, looking after bikes.

“I’ve got lads looking after tꦯhem w🅠hile I’m there, but you’re concentrating the whole time on what needs to be done.

“So you have a lot more going on than jus🎀t normal day-to-day motorcycling part of it.”

Dunlop is remarkabl🥃e for how normal he is, when he’s not smashing TT records.

“I work 9 to 5, I pay my own bills,” h🍌e explained.

“We don’t get anything given to us. I’m the only person that’s winning races with🔯out any factory help.

“You don’t need factory help. It obviously helps, but i⛄t’s not the end of the world where, you know, people just t𓃲hink it’s handed to you.”

Dunlop was asked if he’d ever chased factory support, or whe🐎ther he’d welcome future assistance from a m🐼ajor backer.

“I would like s🔜upport with the parts and all that but it’s very money oriented,” he answered.

“Whoever has the most money talks, so if I can get some help, 🔥great. If I don’t, I’ll just keep paddling my own canoe.”