The Formula
How Rogues, Geniuses, and Speed Freaks Reengineered F1 into the World's Fastest-Growing Sport
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Qarie Marshall
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ONE OF THE FINANCIAL TIMES' BEST BOOKS OF SUMMER 2024
'HANDS DOWN THE GREATEST BOOK EVER WRITTEN ABOUT F1.' -Sam Walker, author of The Captain Class
'MODERN F1 IS THE SPORTS STORY OF THIS ERA AND NO ONE COULD TELL IT BETTER' -Kevin Clark, ESPN
'THE FASTEST READ YOU WILL EVER PICK UP' -A.J. Baime, author of Go Like Hell
F1 is now the fastest growing sport in the world; the full story of its unbelievable rise is a riveting saga only hinted at by the likes of Drive to Survive. In this book - the first, definitive account of how F1 came to achieve total global fandom - Wall Street Journal reporters Joshua Robinson and Jonathan Clegg take us inside a world full of racing obsessives, glamorous settings, petrolheads, engineering geniuses, dashing racers and bitter rivalries.
The story of F1's world dominance is one of near-constant transformation and experimentation. This is a sport where the only way to win championships is to land a series of technical moon shots - and then do it all over again. With fast cars, big money, beautiful people, and glamorous locations from Monaco to Melbourne, The Formula tells the full, epic story of the sport. Starting in 1950s Britain, where six years of wartime engineering laid the foundations for a new type of motorcar racing; to the first global star partnership of Senna and Ecclestone; Spygate; Crashgate and its transition into an entertainment juggernaut. Bringing unique insight and access to F1's most storied teams and personalities - from Ferrari to Lewis Hamilton to Christian Horner and Daniel Ricciardo -The Formula offers a riveting portrait of the drivers, corporations, cars, rivalries, and audacious gambles that have shaped the sport for half a century.
The end result is a high-octane history of how modern F1 racing came to be - the first book to tell the story of the outrageous successes and spectacular crashes that led F1 to this extraordinary yet precarious moment. More than just a sports story, it is the tale of a commercial empire, one built in the 20th century, rendered almost obsolete in the early 21st, and re-emerged world-dominant today; a disrupter that claimed its place in the crowded sports marketplace through cash, personality, and a new understanding of what a sport needs to be in the age of wall-to-wall entertainment.©2024 Joshua Robinson and Jonathan Clegg (P)2024 HarperCollins Publishers
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- 28-12-2024
Comprehensive and fascinating
An intriguing look at the storied and dysfunctional history of Formula 1 racing. With chapters on foundational figures like Enzo Ferrari, Bernie Ecclestone, Sir Frank Williams, and Dietrich Mateschitz, analyses of drivers like Ayrton Senna and his 'lap of the gods', histories of the recent evolution of powerhouse teams like Mercedes Benz and Red Bull Racing, explanations of scandals such as Spygate and Crashgate, and even a chapter devoted to Abu Dhabi 2021, this book has everything a Formula 1 fan could want. The narration is very good. Given that the text contains the names of people and places from across the world, there are a number of challenges in pronunciation, but the narrator gets it right about 90% of the time (for some reason, Imola, Modena, and [Charlie] Whiting escape him. The repeated pronunciation of 'grands prix' as 'grandz prix' becomes irritating over time). That aside, this book is hugely entertaining and highly recommended.
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