In 1969, Hailwood went on to take 3rd place driving a Ford GT40 in the famous French Le Man 24 hour race. The Briton dominated in Grand Prix motorcycle road racing and Formula One-breaking records along the way.Īfter winning the 1961 250cc GP championship on the Honda RC162 and two 500cc GP world championships in 19 for MV Agusta, he climbed into a formula one car. “Mike The Bike” Hailwood is known for riding anything with wheels and doing it fast as hell. Fifty thousand mourners attended Joey’s funeral, which was televised across the UK.Ī Hero, Fast on Anything with Wheels, Mike Hailwood Prior to that race he had won the 600cc and 750cc events.
Tragically Joey Dunlop died racing at the Estonia Pirita-Kose-Kloostrimetsa circuit in 2000 while crashing out of the lead in a 125cc race. The Honda RC-51 (Honda VTR SP-1) had a HRC factory spec motor that produced well over the stock RC-51’s 170 HP that Honda had decided to give Joey straight from the factory. At 48 years young, he won the F1 race that year on a Honda VTR SP1 after a 12-year hiatus. What cemented Joey as a legend was the Senior TT at the Isle of Man in 2000. He was a wildcard in the first season of the fledgling World Super Bike series in 1988 where he took 3rd place at Donington Park.
He had his hand in almost everything: the Macau Grand Prix in 1982-1983 where he stood on the podium twice, the FIM Grand Prix in 19 where he raced 350cc and 250cc machines finishing in the top ten in all his outings. Between 19 he won 13 times competing in the North West 200 in Northern Ireland and won the FIM Formula One TT world championship five years in a row from 1982 to 1986.
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