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Niall is an intelligent man with a wry view on life … it’s good honest read Motor Cycle News
An entertaining insight into life behind the scenes on the circuit and a fair tribute to a normal bloke who made it against the odds Sunday Times
His on-tract exploits seem like a Sunday school picnic compared with his outrageous antics off the track News of the World
Packed with anecdotes about track and pit-lane life … a great insight into top-level action Daily Record
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The 40-year-old Scot has been Britain's most successful Grand Prix racer since the legendary Barry Sheene. At his final race in Knockhill in August 2001, more than 20,000 fans turned up to watch Mackenzie and to bid farewell to their local hero.
Niall has come a long way from Denny where he would regularly get into trouble for racing round the streets, as well as in and out of the local chip shops, to impress the girls.
As an amateur it was recognized he had an abundance of talent, especially after winning his first race at Knockhill, but he also had a wild side and looks back on a time when chasing girls and getting drunk were as important as winning races.
After moving up through the amateur ranks and securing his first factory 500cc rides on a Suzuki, Niall notched up a host of 500cc GP podium finishes before moving to Superbikes. He proved unbeatable between 1996 and 1998 when he claimed a hat-trick of British Superbike titles. On each occasion he beat big-name team-mates such as Jamie Whitham, Chris Walker and Steve Hislop.
This fascinating look into the British GP and Superbike scene through the eyes of one of its legends, has now been fully updated with Mackenzie’s latest adventures in his career off the track in 2003.
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for that reason i didn't have high hopes when i bought this, despite being a fan of niall's for as long as i've been watching racing (if only you'd been given decent tyres!). If niall was any other racer (the name fogerty springs to mind - what a rubbish book!) you would have been sick of hearing how he didn't get the recognition he deserved, the bike wasn't up to the job, rules were unfair and so on.
but i was really surprised and completely hooked. good read, well written, frank, open and honest. told it like it was with no bull - i couldn't put it down! Niall was a top 500 gp rider, at a time when the bikes were monsters and the grid was full of all time greats. He beat them all. He knows it, they know it, and that's all that matters.
a must have for gp fans, and a good read for any sports fan
and if you, like me, race bikes yourself - then the last three paragraphs are worth the money all by themselves. I've never read anything that so perfectly describes how i feel about racing, why i do it, and why "i love that feeling"
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