Crashed and Byrned

Authors:

By Tommy Byrne, Mark Hughes

Format:

Paperback

Availability:

Not yet published. You can order now and we will dispatch as soon as it is available.

Price:

£12.99

Tagged with:

Motor Sport, Formula 1, Formula 1 Drivers, Tommy Byrne

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Further Details

• Published: 4th Sep 2008
• ISBN: 1848310285
• Pages: 228

From Word of Sport:

The tale of the talented Irish racing driver Tommy Byrne, who made it briefly to the heights of Formula 1 in 1982 before self destruction took over. It's told in a breathless, raw style and had us astonished and appalled in equal measure.

From the Publisher:

This is the thrilling, warts-engine-oil-and-all autobiography of the only racing driver Ayrton Senna ever feared - the 200mph flawed genius of Tommy Byrne.It tells the 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. For a brief moment Tommy Byrne was arguably the world's greatest driver, the motor racing equivalent of George Best and Muhammad Ali rolled into one - A racer, a thief, a raconteur.This is the story of his improbable escape, his rapid rise and his spectacular and bizarre fall from grace. Peppered with dark humour and a cast of ridiculous characters, it is the antithesis of a fairytale - and it's all true.

Hold on tight, the tale of Tommy Byrne is quite a ride - from fending for himself as the runt of a big Catholic litter in the '60s, running the gauntlet of the sectarian violence in the '70s, troubling Ayrton Senna and making it to F1 in the '80s, resorting to drugs in the aftermath and driving for a deluded billionaire madman and then gun-toting Mexicans in the '90s. It's raw, passionate, and - with Byrne's ability to tell it like it is - not for the faint-hearted.