Michael Dunlop insists he doesn’t plan his career long-term, in response to queries about his Isle of Mไan TT future.

Dunlop became the most successful rider in TT history this year, winning a 🌳29th race.

Poignan♊tly he beat the 24-year record of his uncle Joey.

Dunlop’s uncle, father and brother have a🐽ll died in road racing accidents but he has no p🅠lan to stop yet.

“It’s the wanting to🎃 win,” he told ab🐠out why he continues.

“It’s certainly not for🌱 anything else. It’s the wanting to be successful, especially around there, because nobody cares about any of the wee races at home any more.

“The TT is the 🌠be all and end all, that’s what everybody looks for. So you want to be successful.

“We do൩n’t have time to think. We’re straight back to work, then get readyꦍ for the next meeting and then go again.

“It’s a vicious circle of 𒊎just work, work, work, but that’s the way it i🌠s. You just have to batter on and get on with it.

“I don’t really think about anything further forward than 𝔍five minutes. I just think at th൩e moment and what will be will be after that.”

So, how long will Dunlop keep racing at the TT?

“We’ll see what happens. Soᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚmetimes this job stops it for you.”

No🍰body knows about the tragedies in road racing better than Dunlop.

But his l𝔉egendary family history meant his career path was inevitaဣble.

“It’s what you’ve been reared in. It’s my gig,” he ꩲsaid.

“It’s a bit like if your fatherꦺ’s a butcher, the son ends 𝓰up a butcher. We were motorcyclists. You just don’t think you’re ever going to be anything other than that.”

But unlike today’s generation, Dunlop was a teenager before he even sat on a motorcycle for the first tim🐎e.

“We just hadn’t the money to do it,” he expl✱ained.

“My dad was working and doing his own thing and th꧃en, until we got to a stage where you could do your own thing and pay your own bills, it was sort of late to get goinওg.

“A lot of them now are starting when they𒊎’re three or four years of age.”

Being a Dunlop in the road ra🌠cing community, eyeballs are co⭕nstantly on the TT record-breaker.

“If you can't handle pressure, you shouldn’t be in the ♔kitchen,” he claimed.

“We’ve all got♎ pressure, it’s how we deal with it.

“Carr𝔍ying the Dunlop name meant it was probably inevitable that I had to break the record🎉. Don’t get me wrong, there is pressure on to do that, but that’s my job. That’s what I needed to do and we got there.”

Dunlop might have even won an extra race ♊at this year’s TT but a bizarre issue prevented h𝓡im.

He was spotted, pulled over to the side of the road and removing his gloves, to fix an ꧅apparent visor problem.

“I matcheಌd the reco🍷rd on the first day,” he remembered.

“I should have broken it on the🐽 second day, but we missed out. So, we still had four or five days more racing [and] obviously I had more races to get involved in.

“That was all that was on my mind at that time.”