Reg Fearman is the man who knows all of speedwayâ??s secrets â?¦ and is prepared to reveal them. He has taken a unique, full-throttle, white-knuckle ride to the top as an international rider, a world-class team manager, a successful promoter and a formidable administrator. He has never ducked a confrontation, on or off the speedway track; he knows the glamorous and the murky side of a tough, fabulously exciting and sometimes cruel sport, and he spares no one's blushes â?¦ not even his own.
John Chaplin, speedwayâ??s leading historian
From humble origins in Londonâ??s East End, this is the story of how Reg Fearman became a local hero with West Ham, the cockney giants of speedway, and went on to represent his country, first as a rider at the tender age of 17, and then as an international manager. A captivating mixture of sporting achievement, politics and business and social history, it also looks at how speedway was resurrected from the doldrums of the late 1950s and dragged into a new â??Jet Ageâ?? golden era, a time which paved the way for the heights that the sport has enjoyed in the twenty-first century as a global phenomenon.
Including a plethora of untold truths, revelations and a rich treasure trove of photographs, Reg lays bare for the first time the sensational inside story of the resurrection of speedway â?¦ warts and all!
Dr Brian Belton, JP and Author
