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The film follows the racing careers of Joey Dunlop (1952–2000), who won five consecutive TT Formula One world titles and his brother Robert Dunlop (1960–2008), whose sons Michael (born 1988) and William (1985–2018) were successful road racers.

Joey Dunlop was notable off-track for his humanitarian work among orphanages in the Balkans. He was killed during a race in Tallinn, Estonia, when his bike left the track and crashed into a tree. Robert Dunlop suffered multiple injuries after his rear wheel collapsed during the 1994 Formula One TT, but after two years' rehabilitation returned to racing in the Super Lightweight class on a bike specially modified to accommodate his damaged leg and wrist. He died during a practice lap before the 2008 North West 200.

The film comes to a climax when Michael, a legitimate entry to the 250 cc race of that competition, but against the strong wishes of the organisers, forced his way onto the starting grid on 17 May 2008, two days after the death of his father and the day before the funeral, and won the race.

The film includes footage from the following races:

North West 200

Isle of Man TT

Ulster Grand Prix

Cookstown 100 Road Races

Skerries Road Races

Armoy Road Races

Killalane Road Races

Manx Grand Prix, Isle of Man

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Reception

Simon Kinnear, in Total Film gave the film four stars, and is quoted as saying "[Road] does for the sport what Senna did for Formula One."

Home media

Madman Entertainment released a DVD of the film in Australia.

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“What Heaven has conferred is called The Nature; an accordance with this nature is called The Path of duty; the regulation of this path is called Instruction. The path may not be left for an instant. If it could be left, it would not be the path. On this account, the superior man () does not wait till he sees things, to be cautious, nor till he hears things, to be apprehensive.”
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“Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect. That is my point of view, and I adhere to that absolutely and unconditionally.”
— Jiddu Krishnamurti, Ommen, The Netherlands (1929), Dissolution speech (3 August 1929).
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