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  • The Formula

  • How Rogues, Geniuses, and Speed Freaks Reengineered F1 into the World's Fastest Growing Sport
  • By: Joshua Robinson, Jonathan Clegg
  • Narrated by: Qarie Marshall
  • Length: 10 hrs and 40 mins
  • 4.8 out of 5 stars (151 ratings)

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The Formula

By: Joshua Robinson, Jonathan Clegg
Narrated by: Qarie Marshall
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

Wall Street Journal reporters and authors of The Club, Joshua Robinson and Jonathan Clegg tell the riveting saga of how Formula 1 broke through in America, detailing the eclectic culture of racing obsessives, glamorous settings, gearheads, engineering geniuses, dashing racers, and bitter rivalries that have made F1 the world’s fastest growing sport.

For decades in America, car racing meant NASCAR, and to a lesser extent IndyCar, with Formula 1—the wealthiest racing league in the world—a distant third. Fast forward to 2023, and F1 has emerged at the front of the pack powered by a passionate yet nascent American fanbase. The F1 juggernaut has arrived, but this checkered flag was far from inevitable.

In The Formula, Wall Street Journal reporters Joshua Robinson and Jonathan Clegg tell the epic story of how F1 saved itself from collapse and finally conquered America through guile, fearlessness, and above all, reinvention. With fast cars, big money, glamorous locales, and beautiful people as the backdrop, The Formula reveals how F1’s sudden arrival in the US was actually decades in the making, a product of the sport’s near-constant state of transformation and experimentation. Bringing unique insight and access to F1’s most storied teams and personalities—from Ferrari to Bernie Ecclestone to Christian Horner to Lewis Hamilton—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, The Formula is the tale of a disrupter that broke into the crowded American sports marketplace and claimed its place 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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good overview

Good sketch of history, current status (2024), focused on the drivers and teams of today with some name checking of essential old guys. Well read with only a few mispronounced names (e.g., Charlie Whiting).

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For the complete F1 story...

Well done in every aspect. The facts were facts and not hyperbole. The controversies were not slanted or opinionated. The performance was outstanding. Excellent book!

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Really, really well done. Historically accurate.

Enjoyed this book immensely. Well written and read. Loads of humorous anecdotes.
Highly recommended for anyone remotely following Formula 1.

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broad picture of the sport & it's history

clear spoking naratuon. a multi decade history of the teams, F1 managment,team peincipals and drivers.

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The real inside story!

This book gives the real inside story that netflix hides away! And the narrator is PERFECT!

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I knew so little about this a week ago!

Well F1 has my attention. I learned so much. Looks like I better look up the Netflix productions. Such an eye-opening, well-told overview of something I knew exactly nothing about. I’ve never even watched a full race. Great book! Highly recommend

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Good for petrol heads as well as new fans

Excellent review of the business of F1. Well with reading by F1 experts and novices. Some mispronunciations are annoying but ultimately forgivable.

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Very good history of F1.

This book was the deal of the day. What a steal! The authors did a great job telling F1’s story thru 2023. Where will the sport go from here?

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Great F1 History

As a newer F1 fan, this provides a great history of F1 and how those various lines of history have given us the F1 of today.

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good book, bad presentation

The reader did not know how to pronounce any of names of the people in the book, the most annoying thing is the phrase "grandS Prix'

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