Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #111518 in Books
• Published on: 2002-11-07
• Binding: Paperback
• 320 pages

Synopsis
Colin McRae was the youngest World Rally Champion ever. This book charts his dramatic and dangerous climb to the pinnacle of success. Colin talks about the skills, the speed, the danger, the friendships, the rivalries and the adrenalin.

About the Author
Colin McRae was born in Lanarkshire, Scotland in 1968. He won the British Rally Championship for the first time in 1991 and became World Champion in 1995. Derick Allsop has joined forces with his friend Colin McRae to document this incredible sporting story. Derick is the country's foremost motorsport journalist and has written books with many iconic figures in the past.

Customer Reviews

the full flying scotsman
This book opens with very kind words from one of Colin's biggest ravels. This is a great insite to one of scotlands best undervalued sportsman. In some ways he likes it that way, when he is out of the car and with his young family. It gives a real feel to the sport than the tv can't. it talks a bit about his school life and how he still lives where he was brought up even though he says it dose cost him a lot of mony to have such prialage to have a home in SCOTLAND he would not have it any other way
It is well writen and very easy book to pick up and very hard to put down kind of book. It has a great balance of hummer and stright talking from the Scotsman about how hard a life is in the sport especial when it gose badley wrong in the car. He talks about before he got his break in to the big time and onto the world rally stage and world champinship year. And why he left that team that give him that big break? and why had gone to Ford?.
Both of his parants have added there own thought of having a son that has acheved such sucess at such a young age. The book gose into the help and expectations of his father had to make it more in the sport than he had done in his life. Colin talks quite openly on how much his father has helped him and how he helps him today all over the world.
the book is great and even if you are not a WRC fan it is still a great book to reed.

Extremely disappointing
This book is more like a quickly scribbled diary than an in-depth look at a hugely popular sport and driver. There are some personal moments in here but they're rather guarded and I felt that at the end of the book I didn't know rallying or Colin McRae any better than before. The rallies themselves are mainly treated along the lines of "Corsica, broke down, it wasn't my fault". It's an easy read but that's because there's nothing much in it and annoyingly finishes before the end of an exciting season, no doubt in order to be in the shops before Christmas.

An excellent view of the best in the world
Colin McRae is still the best rally driver of the current generation and this book gives some inside into why. The format of having additional input from his family and colleagues helps to provide a different perspective to the usual biography and the external insights are particularly illuminating after his massive accident in Corsica in 2000.
The only complaint is that the book ends before the World Championship final rounds. As it was such a nail biting event until Stage 4 of the RAC, the final round, Colin's insight on that is sorely missing.
If you want to know why he is the best read this book.