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Niall Mackenzie: The Autobiography (Hardcover)

by Niall MacKenzie (Author), Stuart Barker (Author, Editor)
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  • Hardcover: 336 pages
  • Publisher: HarperCollinsWillow (15 Jul 2002)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 000714489X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0007144891
  • Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 15.5 x 3.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 247,916 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Product Description

Sunday Times, 11 August 2002

'an entertaining insight into life behind the scenes on the circuit...tribute to a normal bloke who...made it against the odds.'


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The 39-year-old Scot has been Britain's most successful Grant Prix racer since Barry Sheene. At his final race in Knowchill in August 2001, more than 20000 fans turned up 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 and in and out of 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 500 rides on a Suzuki, Niall notched up a host of 500 GP podium finished before moving to Superbikes. He proved unbeatable between 1996 and 1998 when is claimed a hat-trick of British Superbike titles. On every occasion he beat big-name team-mates Jamie Whitham, Chris Walker and Steve Hislop. While he may have finished racing, his involvement in the sport continues as he is testing for the new Sauber Petronas team managed by Carl Foggarty. This is a look into the British GP and Superbike scene through the eyes of one of its legends.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars best racer biog out there, 4 Nov 2002
By Andrew Hyde "Number 45" (London) - See all my reviews
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i've always been irritated by the lack of quality writing about modern motorcycle racing. Biogs of modern racers can be disappointingly shallow chronologies of the racers career, writen for some mythical troglodyte neanderthal race fan.

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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5.0 out of 5 stars Niall MacKenzie: The Autobiography, 19 Sep 2003
By Tony Smith (Tatworth, Somerset United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
If you haven't had the chance to see the man in action, then make sure you read the book. Stuart Barker is a very accomplished and knowledgeable writer and writes from the racer's (and the fans) viewpoint rather than as a detached observer. A very well written and informative book and well worth the wait for it!
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars The old trout does it again, 22 Nov 2007
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What a fantastic read this book is. Insightful, funny and massively down to earth. This book is far superior to 'Foggy' which i found to be "like the man himself" up its own ****. Nialls book spans his amusing childhood stories of impressing local birds outside the chippy on his trusty steed, to his extensive racing years, right through to his years as a bike journo at TWO. What a top book by a top man.
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