Review
How the Dundalk driver took a shot at his dream - with disastrous results.
- Crashed and Byrned
- Icon Books
Crashed and Byrned
The roller-coaster life story of Irish racing driver Tommy Byrne is told at top speed throughout and details how he came from a poor family in Dundalk and within a few years made it to the highest echelon in motor racing: Formula One.
The book will make good reading for any petrol head out there looking for a break from Jeremy Clarkson, as Byrne starts out racing locally, becomes Formula Two and Three champion and as a reward gets a test drive with Formula One giants McLaren. He finally gets a permanent drive in F1, albeit with one of the weakest teams, and it is here that the dream turns sour and Byrne ends up leaving the sport and becomes involved in a number of dodgy deals.
A straightforward and blunt account of the Irishman’s improbable shot at the big time, which he ultimately fails to take; it’s an interesting story, although one feels that it might have made a better newspaper or magazine article, instead of a full-scale biography
