Road

[bennydorano]

Ach, you should have let him be TB

[trileacman]

Last night's programme glamourised a highly dangerous sport, and romanticised death.

Bullshit. I would suspect you didn't even watch it. I don't think anyone at home would think the sight or Robert Dunlop being slammed into the tarmac from 150mph in the slightest bit romantic.

I've been told to forward on Tony's reply:

U shud b ashamed wtchin a programme bout all dem Prods. Wer u nt at mass?

[Tony Baloney]

Ach, you should have let him be TB

I know.

[T Fearon]

Actually it did,and having a Hollywood actor narrate it just added to the misplaced glamour.It was almost a case of one brother following another into battle then when both are fallen the sons can't even wait until the funeral is over until they're back in the trenches.I'm sure the Dunlops mother and wives didn't say what they really felt,losing two sons and a husband each and for what?

[keep her low this half]

I thought it was a great show, very well made but did not hide the pain or the dangers. I remember as a young boy watching the original show about the Armoy Armada in the hall in Armoy in the late seventies.  I remember Joey being there at the back of the hall. As soon as the lights came up Joey was out the back door and away. No desire at all to lap up the glory and the attention, a very humble and truly noble man who never forgot his roots or let fame get to his head.

[GJL]

Actually it did,and having a Hollywood actor narrate it just added to the misplaced glamour.It was almost a case of one brother following another into battle then when both are fallen the sons can't even wait until the funeral is over until they're back in the trenches.I'm sure the Dunlops mother and wives didn't say what they really felt,losing two sons and a husband each and for what?

Tony I guess you just don't understand the attraction. I'm a big motorsport fan and also participate in the 4 wheel version. It is a rush that can not be described.

[Eamonnca1]

They say the reason young fellas drive like a piece of their brain is missing, is because there's a piece of their brain missing. The bit that deals with consequences doesn't develop in men until they start getting into their 20s. It would explain a lot of things, like why it was so easy to sign so many young fellas up to fight in wars in the past, or the way they drive as soon as they get the books.

[johnneycool]

They say the reason young fellas drive like a piece of their brain is missing, is because there's a piece of their brain missing. The bit that deals with consequences doesn't develop in men until they start getting into their 20s. It would explain a lot of things, like why it was so easy to sign so many young fellas up to fight in wars in the past, or the way they drive as soon as they get the books.

I'd be more inclined to say its the adrenaline rush they get and can't really be replaced by anything else in life.

Yes it comes across as selfish especially when there's children involved, but addictive personalities are invariable selfish to those who don't suffer from it.

Just the same as drink,drugs, gambling, everyone has got their vice.

[doodaa]

Did anyone watch last nights documentary on the Dunlops?I am not really a fan of motorsport but it was a fantastic program which was very difficult to watch at times.

Watched it and cant help having the feeling of why?

why these young men risk their lives to pursue something so fleeting, do they really value their lives so lightly that they would throw it away on a motor bike race?

Yes I can get the rush element of it and the addictive nature of the personalities that have built up around it but still, life is for living not throwing away so cheaply.

Who is to say they aren't living life to the fullest?
You hear of people who have come close to death realising that all they were doing was surviving previously rather than living life to the full.

"They probably live more in one minute than most people do in their whole lives" (That is a sentiment expressed in TT; Closer to the Edge by various racers) and id tend to agree with it.

In my mind I imagine getting off a bike after a race would feel like winning your first championship with your club every single time. That feeling where your cheeks are sore from smiling.

[muppet]

Last night's programme glamourised a highly dangerous sport, and romanticised death.

But I thought you were all for romanticising death? 

It disproves the myth that post death we're simply worm food.

[illdecide]

Its on BBC I player now if any of u r interested

[trileacman]

It's fucked up but I see a certain beauty in the way Robert Dunlop died. He was 47, had raised a family, taught his boys whatever he knew and died doing what he loved. Was he better off not taking chances, not doing what he loved so he could slip off the mortal coil in a lingering death as a senile old man. A quick death is a luxury afforded to very few and something not all of us here will stand to have. If they had died young men like their brother in law then I would see the terrible tragedy in it but to live to an age that surpasses the life expectancy of most of the developing world is no shame.

You can say 'Poor Robert." I say "Poor us".