I recently read his biography and I thought he was an interesting and complex guy but that the biography left a lot to be desired.
In fact the book by David Mason, a NE lawyer, did come over a slightly odd. At the start there were a lot of race reports, obviously rewritten from magazines and newspapers.One strange thing was that if Freddie retired early in the race the full race report continued to the end. Perhaps it was to fill space? The print is quite large so it was a quick read really so perhaps needed more words?
I also got the feeling that Mason lost interest once Freddie moved south as from then on there is a lot less detail of what he did during the war and after the war when running cars for Tony Rolt and others. What was the point of the ERA Delage for example and why was it built. Indeed why was it not a Delage ERA?
Surely when the writer was researching the book in the early years of this century, there must have been people around who knew Freddie in post war times? They could have provided much more about his character.