Synopses & Reviews
For a hundred years some of motorsport's greatest drivers and cars have tested their power at Shelsley Walsh, the Midland Automobile Club's famous speed hillclimb course in rural Worcestershire. Here - packed with atmospheric details, archive photography and a directory of records - is the inspiring story of the oldest motor sporting venue in the world that is still operational. In this era of commercialism, Shelsley still stands for sportsmanship, hard-fought but friendly contests, and motor sport purely for fun.
About the Author
Trained as an engineer at Rolls-Royce and Bath University, lifelong petrolhead Norman Burr has always worked in specialist publishing, and in 1997 made his first contribution to motorsport writing with Living with Speed, an acclaimed book chronicling a year in the life of hillclimb legend Roy Lane. Always the Bad Boy is his first fully fledged biography and draws not only on the recollections of John Chatham and those around him, but also on Burr’s own experiences, for as a student in the Bristol area in the early 1970s, he knew John at the peak of his driving career.