{"id":47285,"date":"2026-01-12T08:18:55","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T08:18:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/?p=47285"},"modified":"2026-01-12T08:18:55","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T08:18:55","slug":"cgez7d97313oat_mediumrssat_campaignrss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/2026\/01\/12\/cgez7d97313oat_mediumrssat_campaignrss\/","title":{"rendered":"Irish Motorcyclist of the Year: Who will win this year&#8217;s accolade?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\" async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- Africa tv video display -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3579572842\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\">\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 2025 season was another hugely successful one for Michael Dunlop as he added four more Isle of Man TT race wins to his tally to take his record total of victories at the iconic Manx races to 33.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Ballymoney rider clinched two successes in the Supersport races to extend his winning sequence in that class to eight in a row and to 15 overall in the middleweight class.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He also made it seven career wins in the Supertwins class at the TT by securing a double in that category.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">His four-timer across the week was his fourth at the meeting, emulating the feat he previously achieved in 2013, 2014, 2023 and 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 36-year-old ended a nine-year win drought at the North West 200 in style by sealing a hat-trick of triumphs, crossing the line first in the Superstock and Supersport races on Thursday evening, and one of the Superbike races on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dunlop, who also took two wins apiece at the Cookstown 100 and Tandragee 100 Irish national events, was twice previously named Irish Motorcyclist of the Year, including 12 months ago.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\" async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- Africa tv video display -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3579572842\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\">\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n#Irish #Motorcyclist #Year #win #years #accolade<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2025 season was another hugely successful one for Michael Dunlop as he added four more Isle of Man TT&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47286,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mzansi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47285"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47287,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47285\/revisions\/47287"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}