Crashed And Byrned

By Tommy Byrne & Mark Hughes, £19.99, crashedandbyrned.com, ISBN 978 1 5272 0612 0 The subject of recent BBC Four film

Crash & Burn, this is the tale of the working-class Irish racing driver who came within inches of F1 and Indycar greatness, only to have it snatched away by fate and disappear in a haze of drugs, alcohol and flying bullets. In

Crashed And Byrned, we get the full unsanitised story from Byrne himself. If you’re put off by relentless profanity and lurid personal details, it’s probably not the book for you. However, Byrne’s voice and outsider’s viewpoint on a sport that’s often Prmanaged and self-reverential is vital if we are to fully understand it. The result is possibly the most unusual book on professional motor racing you’re ever likely to read.