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[sstiel]

Yesterday club racing extraordinaire Ian Flux announced on Facebook that he's going to work on a book about his career. It'll be written with Matt James, Motorsport News editor and author of the BTCC history book.

 

Should be fun reading!

[john aston]

I hope Matt engages the profanity filter . I wasn't too impressed with Ian Flux's  F  words in the Tom Pryce book . Time and a place , and that was neither . , 

[elansprint72]

Lock up your Granddaughters.... cover their ears.... 

[SamoanAttorney]

I hope Matt engages the profanity filter . I wasn't too impressed with Ian Flux's  F  words in the Tom Pryce book . Time and a place , and that was neither . , 

 

Fluxie is a genuine legend and a wonderful guy with many great stories to tell. However, I am with you and your approach to the printed word; the EVRO style guide, drawn up by the maestro, gives this guidance.

• Avoid, clichés, slang and profanities.

I am grateful that I am not the sub-editor, just a book buyer.

[F1matt]

Should be a good read, I will look out for this. Always thought he was a bit better than the typical club racer, he was quick in the Lister GT1.

[sstiel]

Fluxie is a genuine legend and a wonderful guy with many great stories to tell. However, I am with you and your approach to the printed word; the EVRO style guide, drawn up by the maestro, gives this guidance.

• Avoid, clichés, slang and profanities.

I am grateful that I am not the sub-editor, just a book buyer.

Who is the maestro behind the guide? 

[SamoanAttorney]

Who is the maestro behind the guide? 

 

Mark Hughes, not the F1-guru that scribbles in Motor Sport, but a partner in EVRO and easily the top motoring sub-editor around, IMHO. They have taken the The Oxford Style and Hart's Rules as their template and adapted it for motoring. 

[Michael Ferner]

I am guessing they are not going to publish a Joe Scalzo book anytime soon? 

[sstiel]

Mark Hughes, not the F1-guru that scribbles in Motor Sport, but a partner in EVRO and easily the top motoring sub-editor around, IMHO. They have taken the The Oxford Style and Hart's Rules as their template and adapted it for motoring. 

Thank you. He used to work at Haynes.

[SamoanAttorney]

Thank you. He used to work at Haynes.

 

Indeed, the same one, a thoroughly good bloke.

 

He will have his hands full later in the year trying to edit and make sense of my less than purple prose.