Crashed and Byrned: The Greatest Racing Driver You Never Saw: The Greatest Racing Driver You Never Saw, Ausgezeichnet: William Hill Irish Sports Book of the Year 2008 - Softcover

Byrne, Tommy; Hughes, Mark

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1906850186 ISBN 13: 9781906850180

Verlag: Faber And Faber Ltd., 2010

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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.

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TOMMY BYRNE is the father of three and now makes his home in the United States, dividing his time between Daytona, Florida and Lexington, Ohio where he teaches at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course.

MARK HUGHES is one of sport’s top journalists. His books on Formula One include the critically acclaimed Lewis Hamilton: The Full Story and Speed Addicts, which won the Illustrated Sports Book of the Year.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Faber And Faber Ltd.
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1906850186
• ISBN 13: 9781906850180
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 256
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