Crashed And Byrned

Description for CRASHED AND BYRNEDE by Tommy Byrne and Mark Hughes: 2017 Updated Edition Extra Chapters & Photographs for CRASHED AND BYRNED by Tommy Byrne with Mark Hughes. A 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 Irishman 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 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, to running the gauntlet of the sectarian violence of the '70s, troubling Ayrton Senna and making i