The Formula: How Rogues, Geniuses, and Speed Freaks Reengineered F1 Into the World's Fastest-Growing Sport by Jonathan Clegg, Joshua Robinson

4.22 AVERAGE

msteinfeld's review

4.0
This is how F1 would be taught in a high school history class: all broad strokes and neatly trimmed off threads to make for a tidy story. It's a great entry into it's history, but like with high school, if you delve much deeper, you'll find out that there is more to nearly every story they tell.

Really enjoyed the read, although the audiobook narrator over pronounces names and "GrandS Prix" in a distracting way. Thrown by a few errors, like the description of what causes porpoising, and calling Bottas Estonian.

oliviakb's review against another edition

4.0
adventurous informative fast-paced

samdanner's review against another edition

4.0
funny informative lighthearted relaxing medium-paced

ainemctiernan's review against another edition

3.5
adventurous informative inspiring medium-paced

moosebreath's review

4.0
informative lighthearted medium-paced
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paginasdeclyo's review

3.5
funny informative fast-paced
3.5 ⭐ 
They lost one star for fat-shamming a driver. It was unnecessary and simply wrong.
The other half is because I get they're from the Wall Stree Journal but it feet very American centered for a sport that's supposed to be global. 
A book about a global sport should not feel like it caters to only one place in the world. 

I may add more to this, I may not. 

benjcourtsheff's review

4.5
informative inspiring medium-paced

readra's review

4.0
adventurous funny informative fast-paced
Part history book, part technical analysis, part character study of F1 greats and personalities. This was a quick, informative, enjoyable read that not only gave the history of Formula One, but colored the sport with character and drama that both informed where we are today and where F1 might be headed in the future.

hannah_who's review

3.5
adventurous informative lighthearted fast-paced

chopper23's review

3.5
informative reflective medium-paced