SPEED: The One Genuinely Modern Pleasure
Author Mat Oxley needs no introduction to today’s Grand Prix road racing fans. He is a writer with the inside track on what makes the sport tick and is on first-name terms with its leading practitioners of today and yesterday – riders, team owners, engineers and officials alike. And, as a former Isle of Man Tourist Trophy winner and World Endurance star, Mat knows how to ride hard too.
But moving from there to producing the definitive book on the early days is indeed. This highly readable 180-page hardcover title has 14 chapters, 44 photos and fascinating, often little-known facts, each of which deal with a specific episode of man’s obsession with going fast in the early days of motorcycle sport – and each chapter reads like a well-worked movie script, complete with director’s notes for the casting agent.
