Warring team-mates, cheating engineers, striking drivers, fake crashes, and avoidable tragedies—Formula 1: The Controversies looks at the scandals that have rocked motor sport’s top series.
Spanning 75 years of racing drama, this book explores the defining flashpoints of Formula One history, including Oscar Piastri’s contested move to McLaren and the power struggles within Red Bull. You’ll revisit bitter team‑mate battles such as Prost vs Senna, cases of industrial espionage, race‑fixing, and even world champions attempting to game the qualifying process at Monaco.
You’ll discover:
- Some of the craftiest attempts to bypass the tech rules from Benetton to Ferrari.
- The spying revelations that almost bankrupted McLaren.
- A scandal that ended the reign of F1’s most controversial boss.
- The furious team-mate battle at Ferrari, when neither driver finished the season.
- A grand prix in Spain where teams fixed the crash barriers themselves.
- A beloved German driver who died on the brink of world championship glory.
- How the son of a world champion ‘fixed’ F1’s first nightrace.
- The modern-day tragedy of Jules Bianchi—and how it almost happened again…
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Why James Hunt was wrong to blame Riccardo Patrese for a tragedy at Monza.
- When Sebastian Vettel flouted team orders to get payback on his team-mate.
- The years-long feud between two of the greatest drivers in F1 history.
- How Ferrari’s love of team orders spectacularly backfired (at a cost of $1m).
Written by an Autosport journalist whose career spans from the Villeneuve–Pironi era through the Senna–Prost rivalry and the explosive Schumacher–Hill season of 1994, this book offers
rare, first‑hand insight. Gain fresh perspectives from
a writer who stood in the paddock as these events unfolded, interviewing Villeneuve and Pironi, Ayrton Senna and Alain Prost, Michael Schumacher and Damon Hill—and who still lends his expertise to TV commentary today.
This is a gripping insider’s account of Formula One’s most defining moments.
Celebrate Formula One’s most iconic drivers with this exploration of their triumphs and tragedies. Featuring high-quality photography and insight from renowned F1 journalist Tony Dodgins. At the heart of Formula One lies the triumphs and tragedies of the sport's greatest stars. The drama, personality and thrill of the sport are all tied to the cult drivers who have made racing so great to watch. Only the fastest and bravest survive!
With a foreword by Christian Horner, Team Principal of Red Bull Racing,
Formula One: The Legends profiles 32 of F1’s iconic drivers from the 1950s to the present day. As well as examining the racers of the past, such as Jackie Stewart, Alain Prost and Aryton Senna, the text
profiles modern-day legends such as Sebastian Vettel, Lewis Hamilton and legend-in-the-making Max Verstappen.
Uniquely, this book also features stars of the sport who tragically died or were terribly injured before they could realize their true potential, but
nevertheless left a lasting legacy.
Decade by decade since the championship was founded, this book profiles the following legends of F1: Ascari, Fangio, Moss, Hawthorn, Brabham, Graham Hill, McLaren, Gurney, Surtees, Clark, Stewart, Rindt, Andretti, Fittipaldi, Lauda, Hunt, Jones, Gilles Villeneuve, Piquet, Prost, Mansell, Senna, Häkkinen, Schumacher, Damon Hill, Button, Alonso, Räikkönen, Rosberg, Vettel, Hamilton, Verstappen.
This is a unique exploration of Formula One racing, with a focus on the most revered Formula One drivers of all time.
A standout gift for fans of the sport, this collection includes expert photography to highlight the greatest moments of these drivers’ careers. Fascinating and insightful, with informed voices from the sport, this is a collection not to be missed.
