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Living and Dying For Road Racing
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... LIVING AND DYING FOR ROAD RACING The year 2000 was a watershed for road racing. Five of the top motorcyclists lost their lives in this powerfully perilous sport on Ulster's roads. The sixth and most notorious 'King of the Road' Joey Dunlop OBE, MBE, died at the age of 48 during an obscure race in Estonia on 02 July 2000. Dunlop was a master of this sport, winning six Formula One T.T.s and twenty-six wins at the Isle of Man, in addition to an abundance of wins back in Ulster. He was credited with being one of the safest riders to grace any circuit. Was it not ironic, then, that one of the safest riders in the sport, died whilst competing in a road race? The former promoter of the Ulster Grand Prix and North West 200, Billy Nutt stated in 2001 that, due to the number of fatalities within the last year,
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