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The Formula

Disciplines:
formula 1
business history
sports journalism

Summary

Joshua Robinson and Jonathan Clegg's 2023 comprehensive business history of Formula 1, covering the commercial transformation from amateur gentleman racing to a multi-billion dollar global media property.

Core Contribution

Provides the first comprehensive business narrative of Formula 1 as an economic entity — the Ecclestone commercial rights consolidation, the team economics, the media deals — making it the essential research text for understanding how the sport was monetized.

Historical Influences

Joshua Robinson Jonathan Clegg

Intellectual Lineage

Sports Business History TraditionLong-Form Sports Journalism

Allied Works

The Upstarts Shoe Dog Drive to Survive

Contemporaries & Peers

The Upstarts The Everything Store Shoe Dog

Minds Influenced

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Intellectual Posterity

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