Driver's rise and fall wins top sports book award

The story of an Irish Formula One driver whose life careered off the track after he shared the pits with some of motor racing’s greatest names was today unveiled as the best sports book of the year.

Crashed and Byrned by Tommy Byrne follows the Dundalk man’s poverty-stricken childhood to becoming the only racing driver that Ayrton Senna ever feared and how it all went wrong when he was so close to the top of world motorsport.