Overview

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 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. 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 United States 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 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.

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""[An] exceptional account of an intense sport...The authors go beyond the adrenaline-drenched action of the racetracks in portraying the progression of Formula One."" -- ""Booklist"" ""An appropriately fast-paced narrative of Formula 1 auto racing, whose popularity is exploding...and a fine example of fluid sports writing."" -- ""Kirkus Reviews""

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Joshua Robinson is the European sports correspondent for the Wall Street Journal and has written for the New York Times, Washington Post, and Sports Illustrated. Jonathan Clegg is an editor for the Wall Street Journal, and his work has also appeared in the London Daily Telegraph, London Independent, and FourFourTwo magazine. Jonathan Clegg is an editor for the Wall Street Journal. His work has also appeared in the Daily Telegraph, the Independent, and FourFourTwo magazine. Qarie Marshall is an Earphones Award-winning narrator. He has narrated more than thirty series for the Discovery Channel, TLC, and the BBC, as well as providing the in-flight programming for Virgin Atlantic Airlines and BBC radio plays. He has voiced over eighty video games for the PlayStation and Xbox and was a guest voice on Comedy Central's Drawn Together. He was made an associate artist of the Purple Rose Theatre in 2007.

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