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DENTISTRY and motorsport wouldn't appear to be a good mix unless you were offering professional services free of charge after an accident.

 But Hong Kong-based dentist Phil Newsome has married the two successfully through the most unlikely of links, the father of Formula One racing legend, Stirling Moss.

 Englishman Newsome arrived in Hong Kong in 1985 to ply his chosen profession but remained keen to pursue his amateur calling of writing on motor racing.

 The Macau Grand Prix weekend attracted him like a magnet as did the story on Stirling Moss' father, who just happened to be a dentist and a former car racer at Indianapolis in the United States.

 'I contacted Stirling Moss and he was delighted that I wanted to do a story on his father.

 'I had that story published, which opened a few doors for me,' Newsome said yesterday.

 The amateur scribe is now a veteran of two books on the Macau weekend of motorsport and is still amazed nobody had written a book on the event before him.

 Newsome collaborated with publisher Ian Lambot in 1993 in a history of the event entitled Colour and Noise to celebrate the Macau Grand Prix's 40th anniversary.

 'The book was enthusiastically accepted by the Macau authorities and it was in my mind to do an update when we seized upon the idea of doing something special for the 15th Formula Three Grand Prix,' Newsome explained.

 Work began in June 1997 and culminated in the publishing last week of The Road to Success: Macau Grand Prix.

 This time the book was bankrolled by the Macau Tourist Bureau but differs dramatically from the first offering.

 'The original book was in English and very detailed. This time they [Macau Tourist Bureau] wanted to tap a broader audience so we went for a trilingual format [English, Portuguese and Chinese] with less words and more pictures,' Newsome said.

 Rather than simply document the on-track action, Newsome commissioned a photo-journalist with little motor-racing experience to capture the atmosphere of the weekend.

 'The Grand Prix weekend is as much about Macau as it is motor racing,' Newsome explains.

 And he has succeeded admirably in capturing the mood and cross-cultural individuality of the event through more than 190 pages of colourful photographs and anecdotes from drivers who have gone on to become household names in the sport - among them Michael Schumacher, who won the Macau Grand Prix in 1990.

 And the racing buff isn't forgotten either - the back section of the book includes a trove of facts and figures about previous race winners.



Racing enthusiast Newsome documents the rise and rise of Macau GP