'Crash and Burn': The story of Tommy Byrne

'Crash and Burn': The story of Tommy Byrne

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forsure

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Sunday 26th March 2017
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BBC4 Monday 9pm.

He made it to F1 - briefly - so I thought it would be ok to post here, rather than the TV forum.

I watched this on BBC NI last week and can thoroughly recommend it; very interesting.

Very quick, but he upset the 'establishment'. Came across, to me, as the Alex Higgins of single-seater racing. With a different attitude he could have raced for McLaren (when they were dominant), but Ron Dennis didn't like him and his career went into decline.

A fascinating story, with much input from Byrne himself.

forsure

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268 months

Wednesday 29th March 2017
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Derek Smith said:
Being an F1 driver is more than just going fast though, as many failed drivers testify. He crashed a lot. Fair enough, so did others who went onto success, but they behaved differently. Managers must have thought it just wasn't worth the aggro.

I enjoyed the programme, but we mainly saw just the one side.

Fair points; a decade earlier James Hunt had the charm and charisma to get away with his anti-establishment, rock-star lifestyle, the paddock liked him and the media loved him.

For Byrne, pure talent alone was not enough.