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Fitz – My Life at the Wheel

Fitz – My Life at the Wheel: by John Fitzpatrick
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John Fitzpatrick needs little by way of an introduction. He learned his trade the hard way, by racing his own private road car, a Mini, in local races.

But we are getting ahead of the story a bit, because as a youngster, Fitz as he is known, was an aspiring golfer with his sights set on becoming a professional. However, life has a way of throwing a curved ball at our plans sometimes, and when he fell out of a tree and broke both wrists badly, he found his golfing plans shattered, literally.

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