Now does driver coaching at racing schools in the US, more specifically, in Ohio, where he is the senior instructor. Worked as a commentator and now retired from driving. He has also written an award-winning autobiography, Crashed and Byrned: The Greatest Racing Driver You Never Saw. It won the 2009 William Hill Irish Sports Book of the Year, and in 2016, the book was adapted to a film, now called Crash and Burn. Byrne was a colossal talent who should've been a regular winner in Formula 1 in the 1980's, but both his lack of money, where Tommy was unwilling to beg for cash just to get a back-of-the-grid race seat, and his outspokenness and penchant for enjoying drinking and other similar past-times saw McLaren take no further interest in him despite an impressive test for them in 1982. From there on his career, whilst successful in sportscars in the late 1980's, never reached the same heights. Byrne was, for record, 1982 British Formula 3 champion and 1981 European and British Formula Ford 2000 champion, as well as winning the Formula Ford Festival. The previous year, Tommy had won two different British Formula Ford 1600 series and prior to that, had colossal success in his homeland.

Biography last updated 5 Dec 2016