Chris Carter at Large - Stories from a Lifetime in Motorcycle Racing

Author: Chris Carter, Richard Skelton, ISBN: 9781845840914, Paparback, published in 2016, 224 pages

Features

• A book about remarkable human beings engaged in an extraordinary activity
• Stories from a lifetime in motorcycle racing
• An upbeat account of a long and quite extraordinary career
• Packed with unique insights, remarkable stories and amusing anecdotes
• A funny, fascinating, insider view of professional motorcycling across six decades
• Recollections and reflections by someone who was actually there
• Funny and engaging, but, nonetheless, a work of serious documentary value
• An honest, frank and direct book from an author deeply involved in motorcycle sport
• Includes forewords by Mike Trimby, Jeff Smith and Steve McLaughlin

Description

Chris Carter has been a journalist, broadcaster, commentator and friend of the star names of international motorcycle sport for more than 60 years.
This book is a wonderful collection of anecdotes – some tragic, but mostly humorous – documenting a fascinating and unique life spent at the heart of motorcycle sport.

Synopsis

Few people have been as deeply involved in motorcycle sport as Chris Carter, a larger than life character and raconteur who was for a great number of years a journalist, commentator and broadcaster at the very top level of motorcycle sport.
This memoir is a funny, fascinating and unique insider view of professional motorcycling over more than six decades. From scrambling in the 1960s, to four decades of international road racing - including Daytona and Macau - and on to trials and speedway. Packed with remarkable stories and amusing anecdotes, as well as interesting reflections and astute observations, it is a light-hearted, highly readable autobiography which lifts the lid on an extraordinary world.
In past times, racing paddocks were open and friendly, and Chris felt part of a big, happy family. He lived cheek by jowl with the very top riders and shared their triumphs and tragedies; to many, he was a friend and confidante.
Honest, frank and direct, Chris tells things exactly as they were, and provides insights into a fast disappearing world.

Additional Information

A unique and revealing memoir about top level road racing and motocross over more than six decades.

This book lifts the lid on life in motorcycle sport like no other. Chris Carter has spent a lifetime covering motorcycle sport from right alongside the competitors and their families, in the paddock.

Recollections and reflections from motorcycle history, by someone who was actually there.