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PETER COLLINS
Autobiography

* 506 full colour pages
* 400+ pictures, including rare, previously unseen images from the Collins family archives
* Launch date: October 21, 2022

IT'S the long-awaited life story of Peter Collins, Britain’s most decorated speedway champion, spectacular winner of the individual world title plus five team and four pairs FIM gold medals.

An overnight sensation when he burst onto the Cheshire grasstrack scene as a 16-year-old, Mancunian PC quickly shot to speedway fame, too, as a Rochdale rookie in the early 70s and became the most famous graduate of the Belle Vue training school.

His 16 loyal seasons with Belle Vue – the local club he supported from the age of eight when he dreamed of emulating his boyhood hero Peter Craven – brought him the highest league and cup honours and, thanks to his trademark thrilling bursts from the back, a permanent place among the pantheon of Aces and England greats.

He was beyond compare, the supreme racer who took the breath away, admired by fans and TV audiences worldwide. No other rider in the history of speedway has dominated the front and back pages of top-selling English tabloid newspapers as Peter did the day after his biggest triumph in front of a capacity 120,000 crowd at Katowice, Poland in 1976.

Ever-popular PC’s compelling story chronicles his meteoric rise from boy motorcycle racer on the Collins family farm in Partington to grasstrack and speedway superstardom.

But it wasn’t all Boys’ Own-style adventure heroics. Collins also candidly recalls the heartbreaking lows as well as many pulsating highs. A disgraceful track and freak injury probably robbed him winning two more individual world titles; possible bike sabotage that wrecked his British Final plans; his rift with England rival and former World Pairs-winning partner Kenny Carter that culminated in violence; and how his move into management and the achievement of saving his beloved Belle Vue from closure – maybe extinction – quickly ended in acrimony.

With forewords by PC’s England grand slam-winning team boss Eric Boocock and America’s double World Champion Bruce Penhall, the Peter Collins story is much more than a riveting insight into a sporting giant. It is the embodiment of British speedway’s last golden era.

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