How Not to Be a Professional Racing Driver

'Hilarious and outrageous' Chris Evans

PRE-ORDER THE FULL-THROTTLE MEMOIR FROM ONE OF THE BIGGEST CHARACTERS IN UK MOTOR RACING

My name is Jason Plato.

Two-time championship-winning and record-breaking racing driver, television presenter, voiceover artist, pilot, bon viveur, hedonist, robber, former inmate of the Monaco police department and a living, breathing example of what you shouldn't do if you want to become a professional racing driver.

(That's not some idiotic tabloid claim, by the way. That's genuinely who I am.)

I drink, I smoke, I don't go to the gym and I rarely stick to the script. Yet I'm still racing, and at the same level I was when I first won a seat with the Williams Touring Car Team over twenty years ago.

It's no coincidence that I've had more race wins than Lewis Hamilton, competed in more races than Jenson Button and set the largest number of fastest laps ever.

Then again, it's also no coincidence that I once spent several days in prison in Monaco for stealing a JCB.

There is nothing sensible, predictable or considered about me, I'm afraid. This is my story.

'As entertaining as watching him drive, a cracking read!' Sir Chris Hoy

'Jason Plato is one of the most gifted racing drivers of his generation!' Damon Hill