Crashed and Byrned: The Greatest Racing Driver You Never Saw (PAPERBACK)
UK £7.99,Canada $16.00,USA $12.95,
UK Publication July 2009
ISBN 9781906850050
Paperback
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THE WILLIAM HILL IRISH SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2008
The thrilling, warts-engine-oil-and-all autobiography of the only racing driver Ayrton Senna ever feared the 200mph flawed genius of Tommy Byrne.
'One of the most extraordinary sporting autobiographies you are likely to come across & I challenge you to put it down. It might just be the greatest book you've never read.' Daily Telegraph
'Riveting' Financial Times
'You won't be able to put it down' The Times
'One of the best racing books you'll read this decade' Autosport
'An essential read ... brilliantly told' Observer
'Witty and shocking ... a must for anyone who has the constitution to handle it.'Motor Sport
'A real pleasure and provides massive insight into what makes racers do what they do.' International Herald Tribune
'A remarkable, colourful, at times scarcely believable tale which unravels at a breakneck pace. You must buy this book.' F1 Fanatic
A surreal tale of a poverty-stricken Dundalk kid's rise to become the only racing driver the great Ayrton Senna ever feared and how it all went wrong from there.
It's raw, passionate, and - with Byrnes ability to tell it like it is not for the faint-hearted.
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Tommy Byrne was the 1980 Double British Formula Ford 1600 champion, the 1981 British Formula Ford 2000 champion and also the European Formula Ford 2000 champion. In 1982 - having also become British F3 champion - he entered F1, but by the following year had disappeared without trace.
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Mark Hughes is recognised as one of Formula One's top journalists and his reports and columns for Autosport magazine have won him wide acclaim. He numbers ITV and Martin Brundle among his clients. He has written a number of books on F1, one of which won the 2005 Illustrated Sports Book of the Year.
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