It's the 10-year-olds watching, or eight-year-olds watching that are inspired to jump into a go-kart to then progress through the ladder. She took a horse from England to Michael Schumacher's ranch in Switzerland to compete against him in a western riding competition and she went to film with the current world champion Max Verstappen when he was too young to legally drive on the roads. When a car slides, it can cause little bits or rubber ('grains') to break away from the tyre's grooves.

Attached to the engine, a turbocharger uses an exhaust driven turbine to drive a compressor to increase the density of the intake air consumed by the engine. When a driver moves off his grid position before the five red lights have been switched off to signal the start. A style of braking made popular in the 1990s following the arrival of hand clutches so that drivers could keep their right foot on the throttle and dedicate their left to braking.

When you add to that a female driver is going to attract far more attention, potentially far more criticism, then that requires, again, another level of determination. The amount of traction a car has at any given point, affecting how easy it is for the driver to keep control through corners. The lap before the start of the race when the cars are driven round from the grid to form up on the grid again for the start of the race. Further, (and for me this is the same criticism I have for the Netflix show) the rule changes, the FIA involvement, the race tracks (why are which ones chosen every year, and why are some only appear every so often, and why are some skipped for years at a time) where is this information.

The FT speaks to investors, players and coaches, to see why money is pouring into the upstart racket sport. If there’s one biggest surprise it would be how much willingness there is, bearing in mind I’ve been in this sport for a long time. You get to that tipping point, and we’ve seen that in women’s football, in women’s cricket and in women’s rugby, that school-age girls are realising, ‘I can play rugby and I can play football’. And with that new audience there's come a realisation from within the sport that it needs to be more diverse, and that includes on track. Correspondent Sara Eisen profiles the heads of several F1 racing teams, including Toto Wolff of Mercedes, Christian Horner of Red Bull and Guenther Steiner of Haas, and interviews the CEOs of Formula 1 and its owner, Liberty Media – a sports and entertainment company that purchased the league in 2017 and has made a series of bold changes.It was only kind of when I got to the age of maybe 14, 15, 16 where I was, like, actually I want to go the next step and go into cars and try and make a professional career out of it. INSIDE F1 tells the stories of the careers of seven stars of the sport using her interviews from throughout the years. And the aim is to really help those 15 young drivers to be nurtured to be the best racing drivers they can be, to then obviously go on to further progression in the sport. If you’ve never experienced the Formula 1 Paddock Club™ or Champions Club, attending Inside F1® is a great opportunity to spend some quality time inside the best high-end trackside hospitality suites in Formula 1.

Overall, if you are already a fan of F1 and have been with the sport for the last 10 years, none of this information is new - though does offer different perspectives. A computerised system that detects if either of a car's driven (rear) wheels is losing traction - ie spinning - and transfers more drive to the wheel with more traction, thus using its more power efficiently. It's not only a miniature machine, but it's a microcosm of all the skills that you need to drive pretty much every type of competition car.

She raced with my dad when my dad raced, so I used to watch her when she was on track,” she explains. You've got to be, when you get to the circuit, even before you get to the circuit, you've got to be ready to expect anything that could happen. It's these personal stories and relationships that give this book such a unique perspective on Formula 1 and the drivers that make it a global sport.