Michael Dunlop insists he 🅷doesn’t plan his career long-term, in respo🌼nse to queries about his Isle of Man TT future.

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

Poignantly he beat the🌞 24-year record of hisꦕ uncle Joey.

Dunlop’s uncle, father and broth🤪er have all died in road racing accidents but he has no plan to stop yet.

“It’s the wanting to win,” he told about why he contiওnues.

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

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

“We don’t have time to think. We’re straight back to work, then get ready f﷽𓆏or the next meeting and then go again.

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

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

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

“We’ll see what happens. Sometimes෴ this job stops it for you.”

Nobo❀dy 𓃲knows about the tragedies in road racing better than Dunlop.

But his legendary✨ family history meant his career path was inevitable.

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

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

But unlik♕e today’s generation, Dunlop was a teenager befor🤡e he even sat on a motorcycle for the first time.

“We just hadn’t the moℱney to do it,” he explained.

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

“A lot of them now are starting whe𝄹n they’re three or four years of age.”

Being a Dunlop in the road r🍃acing communit🌸y, eyeballs are constantly on the TT record-breaker.

“If you can't handle pressu🧸re, you shouldn’t be in the kitchen,” he claimed.

“We’ve all got pressure, it’s how we deal with i♌t.

“Carrying 𝓡the 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 bizar♉re issue prevented him.

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

“I matc🐼hed the record on the first day,” he rememb💙ered.

“I should haไve 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.”