Guy Martin cannot sit still. He constantly has to push - both himself and the machines he drives - to the limit. He is a doer, not a talker. This is true whether he's competing in a self-supported 750-mile mountain bike race in Arizona, attempting to reach 300 miles per hour in a standing mile with the 800-horsepower machine he built in his garage. During his television adventures, he travels to Japan, earns a record for the world's fastest tractor, recreates Steve McQueen's famous jump from The Great Escape, discovers the toil and sacrifice of the D-Day landing days, and tries to handle being a Battle of Britain pilot.

Guy has become a father and hopes that one day his daughter will become a better welder than him. All this while he continues to wake up at 5 a.m. to work on trucks needing maintenance or to go out with his tractor, working the Lincolnshire land he's always considered home.

This is his latest biography, in his own words, about the last four years of his life that make everyone else's seem in slow motion. Life is to be enjoyed, not to last long. For Guy, if it's worth doing, it's worth doing with passion.

Pages: 320, Dimensions: 12.6x12.6cm