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We Need To Weaken The Mixture

Name: We Need To Weaken The Mixture
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Guy Martin is restoring and racing a 1983 Williams F1 car; he’s attempting the land speed record in Bolivia; he’s going for the fastest ever Channel crossing; he’s customising his Ford Transit for record-breaking circuits around Nurburgring, and he’s building a Typhoon. But that’s TV stuff. It’s not real graft. Real graft is his 70-hour week mending trucks for a local haulage firm. And between ‘proper’ jobs, over the summer, he was taytie farming on his new John Deere tractor, working in the fields from 5 a.m. to 7 p.m. He was thinking of diversifying into muck-spreading, then the truck-fitting job came up. Oh yes – and besides the day job and the TV, he’s bought his local pub, and the most terrifying he’s ever done is sing on stage (out of tune) in front of the Kirmington crowd on New Year’s Eve. Only Guy lives a life like this, and only his stories, in his own words, can do it justice.

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SKU: 9780753545461 Category: Adult Biography Tag: Motorcycle racing

The million-copy selling truck fitter returns

***Featured on Channel 4***

‘I can’t stop biting off more than I can chew. Maybe I’m wearing everything out, but I believe the body is a fantastic thing and it will repair itself and I’ll go again. If it’s running too rich, I don’t stop what I’m doing, just weaken the mixture and carry on.’

Since we last heard from him, Guy Martin has restored a 1983 Williams F1 car then raced Jenson Button in it; helped to build a First World War tank; ridden with Putin’s favourite biker gang the Night Wolves; competed on the classic endurance circuit; stood on top of one of Chernobyl’s nuclear reactors and taken part in his last ever Isle of Man TT.

Then there’s the stuff he really can’t wait to get out of bed for: 12-hour shifts for a local haulage firm and tatie farming in his new John Deere tractor.

Besides all this, he’s saved his local pub from closure and become a dad.

But let him tell you his own stories, in his own words:

‘You’re getting it from the horse’s mouth. No filter. I hope you enjoy it.’

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Weight	0.274 kg
Dimensions	19.8 × 12.6 × 2.2 cm
Author	Martin, Guy
Publisher	Virgin Books
Imprint	Virgin Books
Cover	Paperback
Pages	xi, 308 , 24 unnumbered of plates
Language	English
Edition
Dewey	796.75092 (edition:23)
Readership	General – Trade / Code: K