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Formula One: The Controversies (Formula One's Most Dramatic and Polarizing Moments)
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Product Details
Author:
Tony Dodgins, David Coulthard
Format:
Hardcover
Pages:
240
Publisher:
Ivy Press (March 10, 2026)
Imprint:
Ivy Press
Language:
English
Audience:
General/trade
ISBN-13:
9781805700296
ISBN-10:
1805700294
Weight:
59.97oz
Dimensions:
10.55" x 12.3" x 0.906"
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List Price:
$45.00
Country of Origin:
China
Pub Discount:
65
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$34.65
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P-QUARTO
Discount Code:
A
Case Pack:
8
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hbgusa
Series:
Formula One
Overview
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…
- 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.
