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Isle of Man TT: A Dangerous Addiction
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Isle of Man TT: A Dangerous Addiction

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The Isle of Man TT calls itself the world's most dangerous race, run on a public road course that has killed more than 250 people and claimed nearly 150 competitors' lives across its 105-year history. Every late May, more than 25,000 spectators make the three-hour ferry crossing from Liverpool to Douglas, the capital of this self-governing British Crown Dependency sitting about 70 kilometers off the English coast in the Irish Sea. The film follows riders preparing for a course that punishes the smallest mistake, most of them amateurs holding down full-time jobs far from the sponsorship money of Grand Prix racing, spending their own savings for a shot at the mountain circuit. It sits with families, mechanics, and racers themselves to ask why the death toll never stops the entries from growing, treating the event less as a spectacle than as a case study in risk that professional safety standards elsewhere would never allow. The race keeps its reputation because riders keep showing up for it anyway.