Written by motor racing journalist Joe Saward, The Grand Prix Saboteurs - which took 18 years to research - is the extraordinary true story of three top Grand Prix racers who became British secret agents in Occupied France in World War II.
The best grand prix racing stories are not always those that get told. The Grand Prix Saboteurs came frighteningly close to remaining in that province. It was only author Joe Saward's unwavering determination to tell the tale that enabled it finally to see the light of a publishing day, and then only because he grasped the bull's horns and set up his own operation to produce it.
Joe Saward came into BBC London 94.9's Sport Show to tell Steve Bunce much more about the motor racing careers of two of its central characters - English-born Willie Grover, the man who won the first-ever Monaco GP in 1929; and Frenchman Robert Benoist who, had such a thing existed in 1927, would have been that season's World Champion.
Click on the link below to listen to the interview (24 mins): | 
