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Driven
- The Men Who Made Formula One
- Narrated by: Kevin Eason
- Length: 10 hrs
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Summary
Delve into the murky world of Formula One, a world where money, fame and power rule - but for how long?
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 £1 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 and 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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- Mr. S. W. Pannell
- 25-04-20
Brilliant
As an F1 fanatic I loved this book. Although I knew so much beforehand, it was great to have the chronology backed with great stories and offshoots. I found myself feeling sad when the book was coming to an end, and the last few lines killed me. ‘We didn’t do it for the money, we were all racers’... what now for F1 and it’s future?
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- "mundanethreat"
- 28-10-20
nice anecdotes
some nice nuggets in here from an insider who clearly loves the sport. Little critical analysis or narrative, but nice personal stories about lots of secretive familiar names.
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- kiket2ride
- 03-12-19
Amazing storyteller!
Great insight into Motorsport biggest players. Defines of an era, this book portraits Bernie, Frank, Max and other key figures of the F1 world
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- Anonymous User
- 13-03-21
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My kind of subject so was always going to enjoy but full of facts and interesting accounts from the great and good of the sport.
Well narrated. Would recommend to any F1 fan.
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- Caelum Cunnane
- 24-06-22
Great insight into the underbelly of F1
This was the exact type of audiobook I'd been searching for to learn more about the stories of the paddock that only those who were there could tell.
The author gives insight into the type of characters in charge and their flaws. It's an encyclopedia of F1 history but not the side you'll ever hear from F1's channels.
Would highly recommend!
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- J. Chettleburgh
- 30-01-21
Best F1 book I’ve read
Excellent book all round, moving as well as entertaining. A must for any F1 fan.
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- peter amies
- 01-02-19
excellent and informative insight into F1
excellent and informative insight into F1 from a journalistic outside lookin in perspective. well narrayed by the author
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- Amazon Customer
- 23-09-22
Great insight into formula one
This was a great insight into formula one and the interesting characters that built it.
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- P. Sainsbury
- 17-08-20
Really enjoyed this.
Very entertaining and improved my mood whilst slogging through the couch to 5k programme! The author genuinely knows his subject, has a pleasing dry sense of humour and overall I thought this was excellent. Highly recommended.
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- Spence
- 03-04-20
Brilliant
Full of the history of Formula 1 more than great I loved it every second.
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