The joy of a good bookstore is venturing in without anything in particular in mind and finding something that you had not even considered.
So it was that last week’s meander into Bandon Books Plus ended with us landing on The Formula: How Rogues, Geniuses, and Speed Freaks Re-engineered F1 into the World’s Fastest-Growing Sport by Joshua Robinson and Jonathan Clegg.
An impressively researched volume by the pair who had previously combined for equally excellent The Club: How the Premier League Became the Richest, Most Disruptive Business in Sport, the book provides a potted history of F1 up its decline after the millennium and then charts its Netflix-powered revival of recent times.
We’ll wait until the new series of Drive to…