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REVIEWED: Colin Edwards: The Texas Tornado, By Bertie Simmonds
Written by: Gregg Leary   
09/02/2009
Charlotte, NC
 
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Book Review by Gregg Leary

“Colin Edwards: The Texas Tornado” is a 144 page biography that takes us on an odyssey through the career of Colin Edwards…from his birth in 1974, through his first dirt bike at age four, through two World Superbike Championships and his maiden season in MotoGP in 2003 with Aprilia. Dozens of photographs document the journey including many from the Edwards’ family archive.

Eight chapters tell the story.
Silly Season: Part One
Whippin’ Up a Storm
The Ultimate Plan
A Cockroach Called Colin
Ridin’ the Whale
Title Challenger
World Champion
Silly Season Part Two
Troy Bayliss (2001 Superbike Champion) wrote the Foreword.

Bertie Simmonds, says, “His riding style, developed on 250s but with a solid background in dirt competition as a kid, is deceptively fast. He rarely looks out of shape, instead it’s an almost clinically clean line with the bike balanced
on the very last atom of the razor’s edge between ultimate speed and crashing.”

Many consider the 2002 World Superbike Title fight with Troy Bayliss the best ever. Colin reeled off 9 straight wins to turn a 59 point deficit to an 11 Point Title win. “Fans had witnessed the most amazing comeback in the history of two wheeled motorsport,” wrote Simmonds.

In the 2002 World Superbike Season, Colin finished 4th in the first race at Valencia, Spain…then cranked off 25 Straight podium finishes, including 11 wins (9 in a row) 10 second places, and 4 thirds. Laguna Seca was the turning point in his season. After finishing 3rd in Race One…he went on to win the next nine races of the season…and the Championship. (In the 2002 season, Colin racked up 12,000 miles around the Michelin test track at racing speed.) Practice doesn’t make perfect. It only makes permanent. Only perfect practice makes perfect. Colin must have practiced perfectly.

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