Growing Wings: The inside story of Red Bull Racing

Packed with intrigue, high-stakes schemes, and adrenalin-fueled action on-and-off the track, the brilliant and gripping inside story of Formula One's most fascinating, swagger-rich, and win-at-all-costs team, Red Bull Racing, now celebrating its twentieth anniversary.A propulsive, dramatic thrill ride, Growing Wings chronicles two incredible decades of racing as it tells the story of one of F1's boldest teams, the legendary Red Bull, from its earliest drivers to pioneering seasons for Coulthard, Webber and Vettel, among others in F1's heralded cast.With exclusive access to Red Bull's inner sanctum, leading F1 journalist and author Ben Hunt probes the operations of a world-leading Formula One team, from the personalities, rivalries, turbulence, and controversies to the game-changing tech, leadership strategies, and mindset of the racing drivers themselves.With Red Bull's cooperation, yet maintaining journalistic independence, Ben Hunt delivers a thrilling, frank, and unvarnished behind-the-scenes account of how the paddock's loudest upstarts achieved team alchemy with the promotion of a driver called Max Verstappen, and what it means to go, learn, go again, tweak, test, and ultimately dominate in a way never before seen in elite auto racing.Growing Wings includes 16 pages of color photos.This definitive sports biography reveals the inside story of their two-decade rise to dominance:- Exclusive Access: A gripping, unvarnished look into the team's inner sanctum, from the garage to the boardroom, revealing the secrets behind their success.- Formula 1 History: An in-depth chronicle of Red Bull's twenty-year journey, from their earliest days to pioneering seasons with legends like Coulthard, Webber, and Vettel.- Leadership Strategies: Discover the win-at-all-costs mindset and game-changing tech strategies that propelled a paddock upstart to global domination.- Rivalries and Controversies: Go beyond the track to uncover the intense personalities, high-stakes schemes, and team turbulence that have defined the Red Bull era.- The Max Verstappen Effect: Understand how the promotion of a generational talent achieved perfect team alchemy and redefined what's possible in elite auto racing.

UPDATED WITH A NEW CHAPTER<BR><BR>With a foreword by McLaren CEO Zak Brown and written with exclusive inside access, this is the real-time, unfolding story of one of F1's greatest ever teams, rising back up from oblivion.<BR><BR>Few names in motorsports carry the same authority as McLaren and, although in recent years their performance hadn't living up to the legend, they have now returned to form in a spectacular way under the leadership of Zak Brown.<BR><BR>Going into 2023, Brown's team were the ninth quickest on the grid only to end it as arguably the second fastest, after a dramatic mid-season turnaround. It was only in 2024 that lead driver Lando Norris achieved his first ever Grand Prix win in Miami. The following year he became world champion.<BR><BR>Zak Brown took over a failing team from Ron Dennis in 2018, and his dynamic leadership style has seen astounding results. McLaren are on the rise again, looking to a future that will echo its haloed past, when James Hunt, Alain Prost, Niki Lauda, Ayrton Senna and Lewis Hamilton drove the team into the history books. Here they go again.<BR><BR>The McLaren motto is 'Forever Forward', and their story is all about the underdog taking on the big boys of F1. The author looks back at McLaren's origin story, as their heritage is such a big part of their identity, but his main mission is going behind the scenes to give us the inside track on the team's extraordinary resurgence under Brown, and their thrilling bid for victory.

Zwei Jahrzehnte Motorsport-Geschichte: Ein Blick hinter die Kulissen von Red Bull Racing "No Risk, No Fun" lautet einer der Leitsätze von Teamchef Christian Horner für das Red Bull Racing Team. Das beschreibt sehr gut die Motivation und den Weg zum Erfolg der Rennfahrer aus diesem Stall.Dieses Motorsport-Buch gibt einen Einblick in die Red Bull-Geschichte und die der Formel 1: Von den turbulenten Anfängen bis zu den Seriensiegen, von Rivalitäten und Kontroversen:- Ein eindrucksvolles Zeugnis des Strebens nach Erfolg: Die Chronik des Rennstalls- Red Bull-Gründer Dietrich Mateschitz: Wie aus einer Idee eines der erfolgreichsten Formel 1-Teams wurde- Von David Coulthard über Sebastian Vettel zu Max Verstappen: Die berühmten Rennfahrer von Red Bull Racing- Ein inspirierendes Geschenk für Formel 1-Fans- Formel 1-Weltmeister: Was mit den richtigen Leuten, dem richtigen Spirit und der richtigen Einstellung möglich istLegenden der Formel 1: Wie sich das Team an die Spitze kämpfte Die "Tochtergesellschaft eines Softdrinkherstellers" wurde vor allem in der Anfangszeit von der Konkurrenz auf der Rennstrecke nicht immer ernst genommen. Doch nach zwei Jahrzehnten steht fest: Red Bull Racing ist ein voller Erfolg! F1-Journalist und Autor Ben Hunt zeichnet die Geschichte dieses recht jungen Formel 1-Teams nach: Er hat unzählige Interviews geführt, gibt spannende Einblicke in die faszinierenden Persönlichkeiten, die Motorsport-Geschichte geschrieben haben, und fasst die vielen Formel 1-Rekorde noch einmal zusammen, die Red Bull Racing bisher eingefahren hat. Die Betonung liegt auf "bisher" - denn eines ist klar: Die Erfolgsgeschichte dieses Teams ist noch lange nicht zu Ende erzählt!

Sunday Times bestselling author with insider F1 paddock access reveals the behind-the-scenes story of Sir Lewis Hamilton's sensational move to Ferrari and his onward journey with the team.<BR><BR>Hamilton's move to Ferrari was the F1 story of the decade. And now his progress is coming under the intense scrutiny of his 40+ million social media followers, the passionate tifosi and the world's media, as he fulfils his boyhood dream of driving for the legendary Italian team that has been in the sport since its inception.<BR><BR>Drawing on his own first-hand observations and expertise, journalist Ben Hunt uncovers the politics, the strategy, the ambition and raw emotion behind this historic coming together of two icons, and he takes us trackside for a riveting, race-by-race look at how it's all working out.<BR><BR>Hunt tells the inside story of what it is proving to be the British sporting superstar's final roll of the dice to win that record eighth world title, capturing in real time the thrills and challenges of Hamilton's campaign with the Scuderia team to rewrite the record books and make history.