For a fleeting moment in the early 80's Tommy Byrne was the world’s greatest driver, the motor racing equivalent of George Best and Muhammad Ali all rolled into one. His rise was meteoric and his fall spectacular. In a little over four years Byrne went from driving a Mini Cooper in stock car racing to the big-time in Formula One. Eddie Jordan the former team-owner, who worked with both Ayrton Senna and Michael Schumacher, will tell you: ‘Forget Schuey and Senna. Tommy Byrne was the best of them all.’