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.