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The Fast Stuff: Twenty Years of the Top Bike Racing Tales from the World's Maddest Motorsport
Irreverent, rapier-sharp and always readable, ex-racer Mat Oxley is MotoGP’s racetrack rottweiler, always shooting from the hip, offering a unique perspective of the world’s maddest motorsport. Here for the first time is a collection of his best stories written over the past 20 years, published by motorcycle magazines worldwide. Oxley’s fans will relish these insightful, often hilarious, extraordinary tales about the men, the machines and the mayhem.
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320 pages, Hardcover
First published October 1, 2008
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June 22, 2017
Being a huge motorbike fan, I massively enjoyed this book and flew through it in a couple of days.
I think the great thing about this book is its variety. It has tales from multiple forms of motorcycle sport, including 500GP, MotoGP, WSB, Flat Track and Endurance racing. There are also many interviews with some of the greats of motorcycling including Rainy/Doohan/Schwantz/Lawson/Rossi.
I particularly enjoyed the stories that were a little 'different', for example the one with the Roberts family, and all the 'top 10' articles. The piece where Oxley interviewed some riders who took part in the Yamaha RD Pro-Am Series was also very entertaining.
A small criticism of this book would be that some of the stories are quite small (I wished some would continue) but I appreciate many of them were written for magazines/websites so not letting that affect my rating!
I think the great thing about this book is its variety. It has tales from multiple forms of motorcycle sport, including 500GP, MotoGP, WSB, Flat Track and Endurance racing. There are also many interviews with some of the greats of motorcycling including Rainy/Doohan/Schwantz/Lawson/Rossi.
I particularly enjoyed the stories that were a little 'different', for example the one with the Roberts family, and all the 'top 10' articles. The piece where Oxley interviewed some riders who took part in the Yamaha RD Pro-Am Series was also very entertaining.
A small criticism of this book would be that some of the stories are quite small (I wished some would continue) but I appreciate many of them were written for magazines/websites so not letting that affect my rating!
March 1, 2023
Entertaining collection of racing anecdotes by one of the sport’s prolific journos and writers. I think this was a limited print run so if you can bag a copy then treasure it.
December 17, 2015
Another fantastic piece by Mat Oxley
Exactly what we've come to expect from Mat Oxley. A total insider's perspective with no mincing of words or holding back of opinions. Parts of this book will make you long for racing days long gone by, while others with make you eager to see the future of the sport brings. Brilliant account of the triumph, the defeat, the laughter and the agony of the greatest sporting spectacle the world will ever know.
Exactly what we've come to expect from Mat Oxley. A total insider's perspective with no mincing of words or holding back of opinions. Parts of this book will make you long for racing days long gone by, while others with make you eager to see the future of the sport brings. Brilliant account of the triumph, the defeat, the laughter and the agony of the greatest sporting spectacle the world will ever know.
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