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Grid to Glory
75 Milestone Formula One Moments
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A celebratory look at the world of Formula One, featuring the incredible stories that made this magnificent sport what it is today, both well-known and never-before-told. Over 75 chapters, Alex Jacques tells the story of Formula One’s rise, fall and recovery through the extraordinary moments that...
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See moreA celebratory look at the world of Formula 1, featuring the incredible stories that made this magnificent sport what it is today, both known and never-before-told.
Celebrating the Formula One World Championship’s 75th season in unique, sometimes poignant, sometimes shocking and always high-energy style with Channel 4’s voice of F1, Alex Jacques.
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A celebratory look at the world of Formula One, featuring the incredible stories that made this magnificent sport what it is today, both well-known and never-before-told.
Over 75 chapters, Alex Jacques tells the story of Formula One’s rise, fall and recovery through the extraordinary moments that shaped the world’s most dramatic sport. Covering the teams, the drivers, the bosses and the pit crews, Alex Jacques truly takes us trackside to feel the energy and hear from the personalities we love to watch.
With stories ranging from the huge personalities that make up the sport – and the hijinks they wreak at every turn – to a simple misreading of regulations that led to the creation of a monster car, to Lewis Hamilton's shock move to Ferrari and Romain Grosjean's death-defying Man on Fire crash, Grid to Glory brings together some of the most iconic moments in the sport’s history, making it a classic F1 title.
Colourfully written and encompassing every aspect of the unique composition of elite motorsport – glamour, rivalry, death, strategy, technology, business and controversy – this book will appeal to old and new fans of the sport, as its mix of known and never-before-told inside stories provide context to some of the most talked-about incidents in sporting history.
Geared toward fans of Drive to Survive, this is the perfect gift for dad or anyone in your life with a thirst for the motorsport racing side of life.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781789298758
Publisher: Michael O'Mara Books Ltd
Book cover type: Paperback
Genre: Sports, Biography, History
Language version: ENG- English
Target audience: Adults
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 04 June 2026
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Michael O'Mara Books Ltd
Illustration: 16pp colour plates
Contributors:
- Foreword by David Coulthard
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 23.0mm
Width: 129.0mm
Height: 198.0mm
Weight: 300g
Pages: 320
About the Author
Alex Jacques is an award-winning sports commentator and broadcaster. He is Formula 1 lead commentator for Channel 4 and F1TV and the voice of all F1 digital output. He appears on the smash hit Netflix series Drive to Survive and was Sports Broadcaster of the Year in 2022.
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