Growing wings : the inside story of Red Bull racing / Ben Hunt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hunt, Ben (Sportswriter), author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Red Bull Racing (Team).

FIA Formula One World Championship.

Automobile racing.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

viii, 323 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm

Edition:

First U.S. edition.

Other Title:

Inside story of Red Bull racing

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2024]

Summary:

With exclusive access to the team, track-side first-hand account of how upstarts Red Bull Racing competed their way to total domination and disrupted Formula One's world order.

Intrigue, high-stakes machinations and adrenaline-fueled track action - Growing Wings is the never-before-told inside story of how the grid's most fascinating, swagger-rich and win-at-all-costs team competed their way to total domination and disrupted Formula One's world order. With exclusive access to Red Bull's inner sanctum, but maintaining journalistic independence, leading F1 writer Ben Hunt probes the operations of a world-beating Formula One team over its eventful twenty-year history, from the rivalries, turbulence and controversy, to the game-changing tech and the leadership strategies. He also talks to the drivers themselves, including Mark Webber and Sebastian Vettel, for a fascinating insight into the mindset of motorsport athletes through success, risk and challenge. Endorsed with a foreword by Team Principal Christian Horner, but maintaining journalistic independence, this thrilling, frank and unvarnished account of how the paddock's loudest upstarts achieved team alchemy with the promotion of a driver called Max Verstappen, shows you what it looks like to go, learn, go again, tweak, test and ultimately outplay the competition in a way never before seen in Formula One.

Contents:

'No risk, no fun': 2004

The Bull gets its horn: 2005

Off to a flying start: 2005

The first podium: 2006

Webber's arrival: 2007

All change: 2008

A new era: 2009

Vettel gets his crown: 2010

The full works: 2011

Triple champions: 2012

To Infiniti and beyond: 2013

Red Bull Ring's return: 2014

Life after Seb: 2015

Max makes his mark: 2016

The changing face of F1: 2017

Turbulent times: 2018

The Honda gamble: 2019

Put on hold: 2020

Max is world champion: 2021

Back-to-back success: 2022

Total domination: 2023.

Notes:

Foreword by Christian Horner.

"Originally published in the United Kingdom in 2024 by Ebury Spotlight." -- Title page verso.

Includes index.

ISBN:

9780063411913

0063411911

OCLC:

1472118891