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Growing wings : the inside story of Red Bull racing / Ben Hunt.
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- ISBN: 9780063411913 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: viii, 323 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : colour illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition: First U.S. edition.
- Publisher: New York : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2024]
- Copyright: ©2024
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Includes index. Originally published: London : Ebury Spotlight, ©2024. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | '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. |
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| Subject: | Red Bull Racing (Team) FIA Formula One World Championship. Automobile racing. |
- Baker & Taylor
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. - Baker & Taylor
Intrigue, high-stakes machinations and adrenaline-fuelled 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. - HARPERCOLL
Packed with intrigue, high-stakes schemes, and adrenalin-fueled action on-and-off the track, the brilliant and gripping inside story of Formula Oneâs most fascinating, swagger-rich, and win-at-all-costs team, Red Bull, now celebrating its twentieth anniversary.
A propulsive, dramatic thrill ride, Growing Wings chronicles two incredible decades of racing as it tells the story of one of F1âs boldest teams, the legendary Red Bull, from its earliest drivers to pioneering seasons for Coulthard, Webber and Vettel, among others in F1âs heralded cast.
With exclusive access to Red Bullâs inner sanctum, leading F1 journalist and author Ben Hunt probes the operations of a world-leading Formula One team, from the personalities, rivalries, turbulence, and controversies to the game-changing tech, leadership strategies, and mindset of the racing drivers themselves.
With Red Bullâs cooperation, yet maintaining journalistic independence, Ben Hunt delivers a thrilling, frank, and unvarnished account of how the paddock's loudest upstarts achieved team alchemy with the promotion of a driver called Max Verstappen, and what it means to go, learn, go again, tweak, test, and ultimately dominate in a way never before seen in elite auto racing.
Growing Wings includes 16 pages of color photos.
