If you're looking for an amazing motorsport autobiography, pick up the critically acclaimed 'Crashed and Byrned'.
Tommy Byrne is often considered to be one of the greatest wasted talents in the history of Formula 1. Sensational in the junior categories, with several championship victories, he got an F1 break but a poor one at that as it was with under-funded, uncompetitive Theodore outfit in 1982.
Byrne was so disenchanted with the two-race experience that he simply gave up on his ambitions of racing at the pinnacle of motor racing, and gradually drifted into oblivion.
Oh, and today is Tommy's birthday by the way. Buy his book.
