Tommy Byrne: The greatest driver you never heard of

Very few sporting lives have skirted as often, or as wilfully, with drama and danger as Tommy Byrne’s.

Self-proclaimed as the greatest driver you’ve never seen, Byrne competed in an era when cigarette companies had their wares plastered all over motor racing circuits and health and safety was a fire extinguisher and a few rubber tyres along a hard bend.

Great he may have been but he learned the hard way.