Just found this film. Hats off to the people of Estonia for the extremely dignified and respectful way they handled this terrible situation. RIP Joey Dunlop
Joey Dunlop a true hero he gave so much pleasure to us all road racing fans sadley the Dunlop family have lost so much to the sport Joey Robert William God bless RIP
The greatest sportsman to come out of Armoy, County Antrim, Northern Ireland proud to have been born in the same village. Grew up listening to the sound of bikes prepping for the NW200 and Dundrod on the bushside road the smell of petrol fumes the vibration in your stomach sitting in the hedgerow as they bombed past. We loved the man not the legend, many only know the legend a few of us were more fortunate to know the man. Gone but never forgotten God Bless Joey, Mervyn and Frank.
Many thanks for uploading this respectfully video about Joey Dunlop!At Monday 3 July 2000 my late father road it in the newspapers.I couldn’t believe my eyes when I road the newspaper!I watched him in the 80’s in Spa,Assen,Zolder(1984)where he was with Roger Marshall nearly at the big Honda Britain truck),and I became an autograph from both riders,and in Hockenheim 1987 I became an autograph from Joey on my helmet who is still at my home!I’m 65 now,but when I think about those things I get sentimental!R.I.P.Joey,Robert,William and all the other motorcycle racers and street legal riders who died too young!Great respect for the people in Estonia too!Tears in my eyes.
Even though Joey became incredibly successful he still represented that grass roots, oil under the fingernails, sleeping in the van level of racing. I never progressed beyond this level but I believe that the more corporate and rigid the less the enjoyment. Also, let's not forget Joey's quiet charity work and his trips to Romanian orphanages. What a talented man from a talented family. I just wish Micheal all the best and to stay safe.
Never ever seen this footage before but absolutely fascinating but heart breaking to see Joeys last moments before his exit point.The only thing I can say is that his work was done here and it was time to go back but its not easy for all who love him and admire him for all the fantastic times he gave us all.The TT has never been the same without his presence but Im sure he's there every year in spirit with Robert .
i will allways remember the way he lived an humble modest ordinary good kind man doing the impossible his spirit will allways be with us ......and he will allways be loved and reverered.....and never forgetten see you on the otherside Joey ...
A champion on and off the track...ya gotta respect a man that works on his bike as its lined up to start a race..he looked so rugged and scuffy duct tape on his helmet(didn't give a sht what it looked like as long as it worked..but could ride like the wind..a huge love for his sport, you can see it in his face..RIP Joey
Watched this a couple of times, and I feel for John Harris.....Joeys 600cc sponsor.....having to collect Joeys Winning trophies from earlier in the day.....poor man had also had the horrible task of relaying the news back home , how he managed to keep it together I’ll never know ......gods speed No3 , William Joseph Dunlop.😔
Absolutely heart-wrenching to watch this video. A true legend was sadly taken from us on 02-07-2000. To see him leaving the starting line at 16:24 in his familiar yellow helmet was beyond sad. If we could only turn back time...... Joey was a legendary road racer, yet despite his incredible success, he was a humble, kind and really nice human being. RIP JOEY DUNLOP 😢
Remember standing next to him looking at a stand at the bike show in the early '90's. Such an unassuming guy but I could not believe that no one else recognised him. He won his first TT about the time I first got into bikes as a 10 year old. Cannot imagine how tough it must have been riding a TZ750 around the IOM, a bike difficult to ride even on a short circuit. Watched him at Donington in the early '80's on his Honda Britain 4-stroke. Such a versatile rider and legend of the TT and proper "road racer".
Joey's accident left me completely stunned when it happened. Thank you for all the great memories, Joey. You will never be forgotten and you will always be remembered.
Joey was everything to everyone I just wish I was half the man he was and no thats not a load of sentimental tosh its fact he was what all sports men and women should be like not as we see these god dam madonas these days He gained respect by being what he was let alone what talent he had .. In all my years of watching motor sport he is the one I can honestly say I Miss the most Obviously any death is sad very very sad but when Joey left us I feel a massive hole was left in all our hearts R.I.P. Mr Dunlop I truely hope the racing up there is as good if not better then down here and God bless your family !!
Kees thank you so much for posting this video as its given me a better understanding of where we lost Joey. It was very moving and all the spectators should feel proud about the respect they gave to Joeys lost.
Dam if only it hadn't of rained that day..and Joey was jus coming to the end of his racing career.. this was one of his final races and to get through his whole career just to have his life taken at the end was fuckin heartbreaking(excuse my language) but it was so sad..I got talking with Robert Dunlop in the Kings Hall in Belfast a few years later, he was a real nice guy..I was just after buying a Honda CB 600 Hornet that month and I was asking him did he know much about them..But it was sad Robert passed aswell and then his son William..Racing royalty the Dunlop family..Stay safe Michael and God Bless you all. I said a prayer at Wiliams crash site in Skerries awhile back..So unfortunate what happened William with the sump nut tearing out after his bike bottomed out afew times..He had no chance😥R.I.P to you all...
Never be sad at this sort of thing joey wanted to do this and he did....Other folk die in bed with cancer or some other sort of horrible illnes.. Joey lived a life and enjoyed his life he did not lay in a hospital bed for months and months waiting to die as my mother and farther did !!!! so lets be happy as joey went out quikly doing what he loved to do how good is that yes sad but good !!!! he was a lovely man well i did not know him but what i can see/gather he was one of the best if the world followed his lead there would not be war's there would not be loss of life through stupid beleifs Joey was and still is the true face of life and freedom oh how i wish i had spoken to him i did see him in the i.o.m. in the swiming pool with his children but did not want to spoil his time with his kids so just looked and smiled which he did in return.. god bless ya Joey you will be in heaven if there is one that's for sure..if my kids grow up to be half what he was i will be a happy happy farther/parent thats all i have to say in my simple way god bless ya Joey !!!!!
Frustrating how little they showed of Joey.A world wide legend on their doorstep and they basically avoided showing him! Fortunately tv coverage improved a lot...if too late.
Maybe it was a destiny ,a shadow of mistery about his accident,maybe it's better that his last images are from him still alive. We could imagine the bike flying to the trees but him flying to the sky,with wings on his feet like the TT trophy. It's less cruel than see him unconscious on the accident site. Try to immagine he passes from racing on the streets directly to racing in the sky.
His long time sponsor of his 125 Honda and very good personal friend , who sadly took his own life after his business had troubles , Joey went away to avoid any discussion on the matter, and just get his head together, the irony being , that was the bike Joey was riding in his last race.😔
Wrong tyre choice. The rider behind him met with Robert in Estonia on the 1 year anniversary of the crash and explained to Robert how Joey had been sliding quite alot in the first lap then it got worse in the 2nd lap. As he tipped the bike into the last corner the back wheel stepped out resulting in Joey running far too wide where he got too deep into the trees. Unfortunately we all know what happened after that. Terrible accident
very odd question here .i remember i saw years ago a docu here on RUclips and that was about dunlops dead and how the filmmaker suspected suicide . anybody else ever heard about this or maybe seen that video at the time ?
From what I’ve heard I think it started to rain heavy during the race and parts of the track were waterlogged which caused him to lose control. Absolutely nothing to suggest suicide, The bike he was on was a 125cc surely if it was suicide it wouldn’t be attempted on a bike that small. I think it’s wrong to tarnish the mans name with such disgusting theories.
Thst rumour sbojt suicide WS stuff and nonsence. See it was raining but I heard front wheel hit a pool of tar whatever it was it was unfortunate a freak accident
That's bs... It was pouring rain that race and the corner he went off was almost a full throttle corner up a small hill and on to the main straight where it flattens out, giving the corner sort of a crest like effect. I would assume that and water literally flowing down the tarmac was what lead to this tragedy.
None of those riders looked happy to receive their awards...he touched so many people ..he died doing what he loved.... its the only way to live !!! Go Michael and Gary ! I'd rather spend half a lifetime on the ragged edge than spend life taking the fkn safe bet (boring).
I was only 5 years old, but I remeber the moment when his body was lying on the ground, then medics arrived, tried to bring Joey back, but failed and then placed a sheet over him. Now it seems like it was 2 minutes but I was standing there probably 20 minutes if not more. It was raining heavy and the track was a simple road, my dad said that bike back seemed to be slipping and shaking. He crashed right between 2 trees. It was weird because three was not close to the racing line, it was a smooth curve. Not kind of place were u normaly would crash. but again it was very wet. There was a rumor that a small girl run on track and Joey tryed to wave her off, but that option was denied. But he dad said that there was no breaking. His speed was around 150km/h.
Why can we never find any footage of the crash or crashes involving a death in road racing , i dont want the gore just the twitch or shimmy that caused it . Its part of this sport , its a part of their lives
There was footage of some sort which was handed to the Dunlop family by the Estonian government but nobody knows what was on the tape. A commentator said he seen something out of the corner of his eye which looked like a red bike going into the forest area around the last corner. The event was live on TV but not sure what was recorded and what was not
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Just found this film. Hats off to the people of Estonia for the extremely dignified and respectful way they handled this terrible situation.
RIP Joey Dunlop
Bless you Joey , Robert and now William..respect to all of you.
Joey Dunlop a true hero he gave so much pleasure to us all road racing fans sadley the Dunlop family have lost so much to the sport Joey Robert William God bless RIP
God that music is soooo bad
The greatest sportsman to come out of Armoy, County Antrim, Northern Ireland proud to have been born in the same village. Grew up listening to the sound of bikes prepping for the NW200 and Dundrod on the bushside road the smell of petrol fumes the vibration in your stomach sitting in the hedgerow as they bombed past. We loved the man not the legend, many only know the legend a few of us were more fortunate to know the man. Gone but never forgotten God Bless Joey, Mervyn and Frank.
The greatest sportsman.
Did you ever hear the joke about Joey? Stacks his bike and ends up in the hospital. A nurse comes in; "comfy Joey?"
"Armoy".
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Many thanks for uploading this respectfully video about Joey Dunlop!At Monday 3 July 2000 my late father road it in the newspapers.I couldn’t believe my eyes when I road the newspaper!I watched him in the 80’s in Spa,Assen,Zolder(1984)where he was with Roger Marshall nearly at the big Honda Britain truck),and I became an autograph from both riders,and in Hockenheim 1987 I became an autograph from Joey on my helmet who is still at my home!I’m 65 now,but when I think about those things I get sentimental!R.I.P.Joey,Robert,William and all the other motorcycle racers and street legal riders who died too young!Great respect for the people in Estonia too!Tears in my eyes.
16:22 goodbye Joey we miss you so much
14 years ago today,god bless you JoeyDunlop….we miss you brother! x
20 años hace ya
Even though Joey became incredibly successful he still represented that grass roots, oil under the fingernails, sleeping in the van level of racing. I never progressed beyond this level but I believe that the more corporate and rigid the less the enjoyment.
Also, let's not forget Joey's quiet charity work and his trips to Romanian orphanages.
What a talented man from a talented family. I just wish Micheal all the best and to stay safe.
Never ever seen this footage before but absolutely fascinating but heart breaking to see Joeys last moments before his exit point.The only thing I can say is that his work was done here and it was time to go back but its not easy for all who love him and admire him for all the fantastic times he gave us all.The TT has never been the same without his presence but Im sure he's there every year in spirit with Robert .
Now sadly William is with them both. Dunlops will be legendary for eternity.
was in tears looking at this
FairPlay to the people of Estonia. They handled a difficult moment. Good people
i will allways remember the way he lived an humble modest ordinary good kind man doing the impossible his spirit will allways be with us ......and he will allways be loved and reverered.....and never forgetten see you on the otherside Joey ...
A champion on and off the track...ya gotta respect a man that works on his bike as its lined up to start a race..he looked so rugged and scuffy duct tape on his helmet(didn't give a sht what it looked like as long as it worked..but could ride like the wind..a huge love for his sport, you can see it in his face..RIP Joey
I know right! Even yellow tape would have been better. Not a concern for the greatest.
Watched this a couple of times, and I feel for John Harris.....Joeys 600cc sponsor.....having to collect Joeys Winning trophies from earlier in the day.....poor man had also had the horrible task of relaying the news back home , how he managed to keep it together I’ll never know ......gods speed No3 , William Joseph Dunlop.😔
Absolutely heart-wrenching to watch this video. A true legend was sadly taken from us on 02-07-2000.
To see him leaving the starting line at 16:24 in his familiar yellow helmet was beyond sad. If we could only turn back time......
Joey was a legendary road racer, yet despite his incredible success, he was a humble, kind and really nice human being.
RIP JOEY DUNLOP 😢
Remember standing next to him looking at a stand at the bike show in the early '90's. Such an unassuming guy but I could not believe that no one else recognised him. He won his first TT about the time I first got into bikes as a 10 year old. Cannot imagine how tough it must have been riding a TZ750 around the IOM, a bike difficult to ride even on a short circuit. Watched him at Donington in the early '80's on his Honda Britain 4-stroke. Such a versatile rider and legend of the TT and proper "road racer".
Joey's accident left me completely stunned when it happened. Thank you for all the great memories, Joey. You will never be forgotten and you will always be remembered.
Joey era il mio eroe!
Joey was everything to everyone I just wish I was half the man he was and no thats not a load of sentimental tosh its fact
he was what all sports men and women should be like not as we see these god dam madonas these days He gained respect
by being what he was let alone what talent he had .. In all my years of watching motor sport he is the one I can honestly say I
Miss the most Obviously any death is sad very very sad but when Joey left us I feel a massive hole was left in all our hearts
R.I.P. Mr Dunlop I truely hope the racing up there is as good if not better then down here and God bless your family !!
Absolute legend! Shame he and his brother both past. R.i.P #legends
Kees thank you so much for posting this video as its given me a better understanding of where we lost Joey. It was very moving and all the spectators should feel proud about the respect they gave to Joeys lost.
I must say this was tastefully done in difficult circumstances.
Dam if only it hadn't of rained that day..and Joey was jus coming to the end of his racing career.. this was one of his final races and to get through his whole career just to have his life taken at the end was fuckin heartbreaking(excuse my language) but it was so sad..I got talking with Robert Dunlop in the Kings Hall in Belfast a few years later, he was a real nice guy..I was just after buying a Honda CB 600 Hornet that month and I was asking him did he know much about them..But it was sad Robert passed aswell and then his son William..Racing royalty the Dunlop family..Stay safe Michael and God Bless you all. I said a prayer at Wiliams crash site in Skerries awhile back..So unfortunate what happened William with the sump nut tearing out after his bike bottomed out afew times..He had no chance😥R.I.P to you all...
I respect every person in this parade, period!
How do you keep going when the most beloved man in the sport of road racing dies. With heavy hearts. Godspeed Joey.
Never be sad at this sort of thing joey wanted to do this and he did....Other folk die in bed with cancer or some other sort of horrible illnes.. Joey lived a life and enjoyed his life
he did not lay in a hospital bed for months and months waiting to die as my mother and farther did !!!! so lets be happy as joey went out quikly doing what he loved to do
how good is that yes sad but good !!!! he was a lovely man well i did not know him but what i can see/gather he was one of the best if the world followed his lead there would not
be war's there would not be loss of life through stupid beleifs Joey was and still is the true face of life and freedom oh how i wish i had spoken to him i did see him in the i.o.m. in
the swiming pool with his children but did not want to spoil his time with his kids so just looked and smiled which he did in return.. god bless ya Joey you will be in heaven if there is one
that's for sure..if my kids grow up to be half what he was i will be a happy happy farther/parent thats all i have to say in my simple way god bless ya Joey !!!!!
Today theres an evet in estonia and thats for joey dunlop cause today 2 july
;(RIP
Amazing road racer. God bless you joey Dunlop.
CAMPEÃO DOS CAMPEÕES.💯🔥🏁
R.I.P THE LEGEND
Великий гонщик!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Remember it like it was yesterday. Not a dry eye in the home
Скорость не убивает, убивает резкая остановка. RIP.
Frustrating how little they showed of Joey.A world wide legend on their doorstep and they basically avoided showing him! Fortunately tv coverage improved a lot...if too late.
Maybe it was a destiny ,a shadow of mistery about his accident,maybe it's better that his last images are from him still alive. We could imagine the bike flying to the trees but him flying to the sky,with wings on his feet like the TT trophy. It's less cruel than see him unconscious on the accident site. Try to immagine he passes from racing on the streets directly to racing in the sky.
Race should have been cancelled in them conditions.. 🙏🏻 joey never forgotten especially by the wee orphans ❤️
It was cancelled.
R.I.P Joey…. One of greatest 😢
Nice video. Cheers for sharing
I LOVE JOEY
very poignant ending sir….thanks for sharing...
Legend and a gent. My only hero, yer maun Joey!
Legend. Enuf said
What a champion....what a man....
Mr_DOHC
Царство небесное, сегодня узнал про этого человека.
прожил яркую и феерическую жизнь.
аминь
Keep Joey alive! Repost this! I dare ye. society is cowardice, most won't. Bring it.
Paul Lorenzini I did that. I also made Motovlog about him, because today is 15th anniversary of the crash.
Zed Zexer it is that day again sir…..poignant memories of a truly humbling gentleman….rip joey….we miss you brother! xxx
Apparently he only went there cause his friend had died & he wanted to get away!
I think thats right , his long time friend died tragically by his own hand from depression if i have that right.
His long time sponsor of his 125 Honda and very good personal friend , who sadly took his own life after his business had troubles , Joey went away to avoid any discussion on the matter, and just get his head together, the irony being , that was the bike Joey was riding in his last race.😔
Was this among the biggest news stories in Estonia since Independece?
Not really there was a ferry named ''Estonia'' which sank with almost 900 people back in 1994.
There can be one joey x
King of the TT I think anyone of these guys and few but some girls are kings and queens just some have bigger coffers
♥️🏍💨
What mistake did Joey make in that race? They said he made a mistake which caused his crash. Did he choose wrong tyres or what as it was so wet
Wrong tyre choice. The rider behind him met with Robert in Estonia on the 1 year anniversary of the crash and explained to Robert how Joey had been sliding quite alot in the first lap then it got worse in the 2nd lap. As he tipped the bike into the last corner the back wheel stepped out resulting in Joey running far too wide where he got too deep into the trees. Unfortunately we all know what happened after that. Terrible accident
That race official guy is a dead ringer for Charles Bronson in Deathwish.
No jubilation from the winners that day. So glad I got to see him race in person when I was growing up in N.Ireland.
Van echte helden zijn er veel te weinig
his bro's Rab's ( rip them all) mechanic tuned my x7, flying machine
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very odd question here .i remember i saw years ago a docu here on RUclips and that was about dunlops dead and how the filmmaker suspected suicide . anybody else ever heard about this or maybe seen that video at the time ?
Not worth watching if it's talking utter trash regarding suicide
From what I’ve heard I think it started to rain heavy during the race and parts of the track were waterlogged which caused him to lose control. Absolutely nothing to suggest suicide, The bike he was on was a 125cc surely if it was suicide it wouldn’t be attempted on a bike that small. I think it’s wrong to tarnish the mans name with such disgusting theories.
Thst rumour sbojt suicide WS stuff and nonsence. See it was raining but I heard front wheel hit a pool of tar whatever it was it was unfortunate a freak accident
That's bs...
It was pouring rain that race and the corner he went off was almost a full throttle corner up a small hill and on to the main straight where it flattens out, giving the corner sort of a crest like effect.
I would assume that and water literally flowing down the tarmac was what lead to this tragedy.
The organisers should be held accountable for letting them race in wet and tree's so close to track
None of those riders looked happy to receive their awards...he touched so many people ..he died doing what he loved.... its the only way to live !!! Go Michael and Gary !
I'd rather spend half a lifetime on the ragged edge than spend life taking the fkn safe bet (boring).
Very sad
просто он не выдержал эстонских тормозов : (
Wonderful document but why can't we switch off the shitty music ?
Saw his crash live. I was only 50m away from the place. Very sad.
What have you seen? Failure? Rain? Can you describe it?
I was only 5 years old, but I remeber the moment when his body was lying on the ground, then medics arrived, tried to bring Joey back, but failed and then placed a sheet over him. Now it seems like it was 2 minutes but I was standing there probably 20 minutes if not more. It was raining heavy and the track was a simple road, my dad said that bike back seemed to be slipping and shaking. He crashed right between 2 trees. It was weird because three was not close to the racing line, it was a smooth curve. Not kind of place were u normaly would crash. but again it was very wet. There was a rumor that a small girl run on track and Joey tryed to wave her off, but that option was denied. But he dad said that there was no breaking. His speed was around 150km/h.
wtf:-/
Why can we never find any footage of the crash or crashes involving a death in road racing , i dont want the gore just the twitch or shimmy that caused it . Its part of this sport , its a part of their lives
There was footage of some sort which was handed to the Dunlop family by the Estonian government but nobody knows what was on the tape. A commentator said he seen something out of the corner of his eye which looked like a red bike going into the forest area around the last corner. The event was live on TV but not sure what was recorded and what was not