07 December 2006

Book launch - The World's Fastest Diesel

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The inside story of the super successful JCB DIESELMAX land speed record project is now celebrated in a specially commissioned glossy 150-page book: The World’s Fastest Diesel.

The whole remarkable story – from the Chairman's boyhood dream, to the 350.092mph record-breaking runs on 23 August 2006 – is recorded in this book by the project's biographer, David Tremayne.

To faithfully record the myriad ups and downs, the failures and breakthroughs, the joyous times and the disappointments, a writer needs to be embedded with the team and to know about record breaking. Tremayne succeeds on both scores.

As a respected motor sport journalist, Tremayne has spent time with Formula One outfits as well as previous land speed record teams. Reflecting on past experiences, in his introduction, he writes: ‘…hand on heart I can say that the JCB Dieselmax project was the slickest and most enjoyable of them all. Its story was one of world-class engineering, carried out by people who were world class, both professionally and personally’.

Tremayne is the world’s leading authority on land speed records, his most recent book on the subject being the acclaimed Donald Campbell: The Man Behind The Mask. As a journalist, he has been present at many land speed record attempts, including Andy Green’s landmark 763.035 mph supersonic run in 1997. His latest offering – published by Haynes and priced at £17.99 – is a fabulous book featuring stunning photography throughout, and is described as a ‘must read’ for every petrolhead... or should that be dieselhead?

Available at all good book stockist or buy online atwww.haynes.co.uk