True stories of wrongdoing in motor racing
ISBN: 9781910505700
I was first contacted and interviewed by the author around three years ago and was fascinated to see that his book, Driven to Crime, had finally been published, and especially pleased to see that my true story was one of the sixty-six cases investigated and included in this new book.
The need to distill a very complex case to people that sometimes have little or no knowledge of the sport or the complex legal events that happened has always hampered my fight to tell the true story of what occurred. Crispian Besley achieves this where others failed, perhaps considering it risky to offer any alternative opinion and considering a more pragmatic approach sensible… the sensitive legal issues handled in a more practical than factual way, allowing for such considerations as reputations to be maintained? Those important persons, in elevated positions of authority, were always granted immunity to continue sleeping well at night, thanks to such considerations!
As Sir Winston Churchill once said: “History is Written by the Victors” – Thank you, Crispian Besley, for taking the time to actually investigate and, after 30-plus years of official misinformation, publishing the true history!
John Bartlett 