Tommy Byrne – F3/F3000 | The “forgotten” drivers of F1

1981 F Ford 2000 Oulton Park. Photo Steve Jones Artist

1982 – Mallory Park meeting of the 1st August 1982, Tommy Byrne rounds the hairpin in his Murray Taylor-run Ralt RT3 on the way to third place. The following weekend, Tommy was at the Hockenheimring attempting to make his Grand Prix debut with the Theodore, but failing to qualify. However, the following week he was on the grid in Austria – Photograph and info © Alan Cox more here: https://www.facebook.com/alancoxmotorsport

1982 Mallory Park. Photo Gary Thomas

1983 F3 FIA European F3 Championship, Round 14. Photo and info Vincenzo Zaccaria

F3 time with Anson. Photo Rick Buurmann

1983 Tommy Byrne in the Anson Racing Alfa Romeo powered SA4, during the 1983 Macau Grand Prix.. Photos courtesy of Tony Morris and info Ed Brunette

1983 Tommy Byrne in the Anson Racing Alfa Romeo powered SA4, during the 1983 Macau Grand Prix.. Photos courtesy of Tony Morris and info Ed Brunette

1986 F3000: Tommy Byrne locks the fronts in the EJR March 86B in Birmingham 1986 on the approach to the big roundabout. Photo and info Brendan McFarlane

1986 F3000: Tommy Byrne locks the fronts in the EJR March 86B in Birmingham 1986 on the approach to the big roundabout. Photo and info Brendan McFarlane

1986 CART American Racing Series. Photo Mark Windecker

1994 F3 Mexico. Photo via Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez /Stuart Dent?/

F2 Mexico and his memory from Mexico : “In Mexico City I was a mini superstar again,” he says. “They would have 40,000 people at an F3 race. I’d struck a deal by which they paid me $2000 in cash per race, plus expenses, plus a full mini bar. I was earning a lot of money and there was a lot of partying. I could pick the phone up in Mexico City at lunchtime and then party until 4am the next morning. There were plenty of women around and everyone loved their vodka and cokes. They were wild times.