Driven: The Men Who Made Formula One
Formula One is one of the biggest, wealthiest and most controversial sports on the planet. Yet it was created by a small clique of extraordinary men, whose mission and passion was to win, sometimes at all costs. They were from vastly different backgrounds but shared one quality that counted above all others: they were driven.
In this account by Kevin Eason, a 30-year veteran with The Times of London, the lives of these men are revealed with all of their quirks and extravagant living. DRIVEN: THE MEN WHO MADE FORMULA ONE tells how they transformed Formula One from a niche sport played out on primitive tracks surrounded hay bales and grass verges into a 1 billion empire inhabiting vast palaces of entertainment all over the world. Led by Bernie Ecclestone, the diminutive billionaire emperor, they created cars boasting space-age technology and transformed drivers from amateur gladiators into multi million-pound superstars of sport. Eason was privileged to have a ringside seat to see these men at work over 20 years and watch how they hatched lucrative deals, closed ranks to protect themselves and their sport yet fought like Mafia Dons, only to be pushed aside by the corporate world of big business. It was the end of an amazing era like no other in sport. But the men who built Formula One were driven like no others.Kevin Eason has spent a lifetime in journalism, starting as an apprentice reporter in the North-East before moving to the Birmingham Post & Mail as chief industrial correspondent, and then to Fleet Street where joined the Today, before moving to The Times in 1989, covering a range of stories from general elections to disasters and working as motoring editor.
Eason moved to sport in 1998 as motor racing correspondent and has reported on almost 300 grands prix, as well as covering three Olympics, a soccer World Cup, Wimbledon, The Open, the Ryder Cup and many other big events. He was nominated UK Sports Journalist of the Year in 2012 for his reporting on the crisis at the Bahrain Grand Prix of that year, and received the Lorenza Bandini Gold Medal for his work in Formula One. He retired from The Times at the end of the 2016 season, but has subsequently worked for The Sunday Times.Eason lives in Hertfordshire with his wife Jacqueline and Retriever Nell.Author: Kevin Eason
Format: Paperback, 416 pages, 165mm x 233mm, 510 g
Published: 2018, Hodder & Stoughton, United Kingdom
Genre: Biography: Sport
Formula One is one of the biggest, wealthiest and most controversial sports on the planet. Yet it was created by a small clique of extraordinary men, whose mission and passion was to win, sometimes at all costs. They were from vastly different backgrounds but shared one quality that counted above all others: they were driven.
In this account by Kevin Eason, a 30-year veteran with The Times of London, the lives of these men are revealed with all of their quirks and extravagant living. DRIVEN: THE MEN WHO MADE FORMULA ONE tells how they transformed Formula One from a niche sport played out on primitive tracks surrounded hay bales and grass verges into a 1 billion empire inhabiting vast palaces of entertainment all over the world. Led by Bernie Ecclestone, the diminutive billionaire emperor, they created cars boasting space-age technology and transformed drivers from amateur gladiators into multi million-pound superstars of sport. Eason was privileged to have a ringside seat to see these men at work over 20 years and watch how they hatched lucrative deals, closed ranks to protect themselves and their sport yet fought like Mafia Dons, only to be pushed aside by the corporate world of big business. It was the end of an amazing era like no other in sport. But the men who built Formula One were driven like no others.Kevin Eason has spent a lifetime in journalism, starting as an apprentice reporter in the North-East before moving to the Birmingham Post & Mail as chief industrial correspondent, and then to Fleet Street where joined the Today, before moving to The Times in 1989, covering a range of stories from general elections to disasters and working as motoring editor.
Eason moved to sport in 1998 as motor racing correspondent and has reported on almost 300 grands prix, as well as covering three Olympics, a soccer World Cup, Wimbledon, The Open, the Ryder Cup and many other big events. He was nominated UK Sports Journalist of the Year in 2012 for his reporting on the crisis at the Bahrain Grand Prix of that year, and received the Lorenza Bandini Gold Medal for his work in Formula One. He retired from The Times at the end of the 2016 season, but has subsequently worked for The Sunday Times.Eason lives in Hertfordshire with his wife Jacqueline and Retriever Nell.