Dodgy Business
The three-week summer break between the Hungarian and European Grands Prix gave everyone time to indulge themselves away from the races. Tony Dodgins picked up a biography of Tommy Byrne and couldn't put it down
By September 17 I guess your summer vacations will be ancient history. That book you picked up at the terminal before you boarded the plane will have served its purpose and been tossed away. But I implore you, if you like motor racing and you enjoy a good tale, go and buy 'Crash and Byrned: The Fastest Driver You Never Saw' which will be launched by Icon books on the aforementioned date. Put it to one side for when you've got a spare few hours. Whatever you do, don't open it if you're busy.
Back in the early 80s, a young driver won the RAC and P&O FF1600 titles, then the British and European FF2000 championships, dominated the British F3 championship, and went on to do wondrous things in a McLaren. Ayrton Senna, you're thinking? Wrong. Ayrton did all that, sure, but a guy called Tommy Byrne did it a year before him.
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