Mike Jakeman

The secret of success in Formula 1

For decades, competitive advantage depended on finding loopholes in the sport’s rule book – and no one knew that better than the British entrepreneur Bernie Ecclestone

Bernie Ecclestone and Nigel Mansell at Silverstone in August 2016. [Alamy]

  • The Formula: How Rogues, Geniuses and Speed Freaks Reengineered F1 Into the World’s Fastest-Growing Sport

    Joshua Robinson and Jonathan Clegg

    Mariner Books, pp. 304, £25

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