I bought the book around the time it came out and read it cover to cover. To be honest I felt it was a disappointment. It was disjointed, badly put together and badly written. I guess much of that could be put down to his ghost writer. We know 2 sides of Martin Hines - the driver and the businessman. This book publicly exposed the private side of the man which seemed to uncomfortably juxtapose horrific tragedy and salaciousness. The bits about driver development and management also appeared to be tinged with sourness somewhat. I came away feeling that what I had learned about the man was not really something I wanted to know about... and what I wanted to find out more about wasn't actually written about in the book... if you see what I mean.
I also bought and read Crashed and Byrned - Tommy Byrne's autobiography - a few weeks beforehand. I'd encountered Tommy in Ireland a few times back in the day, so there was a personal connection there. Ghost-written by Autosport's Mark Hughes, this is an example of how the autobiography of a motorsport star should be written and is leagues ahead of Martin Hines' book.
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