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Driven - The Men Who Made Formula One (Hardcover)
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Driven - The Men Who Made Formula One (Hardcover)
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Formula One is speed, glamour, danger - and eye-watering wealth.
Driven: The Men Who Made Formula One tells how a small group of
extraordinary men transformed Formula One from a niche sport played
out on primitive tracks surrounded by hay bales and grass verges
into a GBP1 billion circus performing in vast theatres of
entertainment all over the world. Led by Bernie Ecclestone, the
billionaire ringmaster, this clique started by scraping a living to
go racing and ended up creating space-age cars, turning drivers
from amateur gladiators into multimillion-pound superstars, like
Ayrton Senna and Lewis Hamilton, while the names of Ferrari,
McLaren and Williams are now as familiar around the world as
Manchester United or Real Madrid. For 20 years, Kevin Eason watched
how these men operated like a sporting Mafia, protecting each other
while squabbling over the vast wealth pouring into the sport. As
motor racing correspondent for The Times and then with The Sunday
Times, Eason was privileged to have a ringside seat as this cabal
of wealthy characters ruled and then were pushed out of the sport
they created. This colourful and compelling account of the
extraordinary flourishing of Formula One explores the quirks and
extravagances of the men who converged - in one generation - to
shape their sport; disparate characters with a common impulse: they
were racers - and they were driven.
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