FINISHING STRAIGHTESSENTIALS
FORMULAX: HOW TO REACH EXTREME
ACCELERATION INYOUR ORGANISATION
AuthorsJurrianKamer, Rini vanSolin gen
Price£19.95
formula-x.coFrom the writer of the award-winning
SennacomesHeroes, a feature-length
journey through the triumphs and
tragedies offour motorsport legends.
Heroesfeatures two-time F1
champion Mika Häkkinen,former
Ferrari grand prix aceFelipe
Massa, nine-timeLe Mans winner
Tom Kristensen and WRC mould-
breaker MicheleMouton, the only
womanto have won rallies at world
championship level. Allfour enjoy a
connection with another star namewhose story is woven into thevery
fabric ofthe fi lm: seven-time F1
champion MichaelSchumacher.
There’s a substantial emotional
depthto the narrative as the
guests share theirexperiences of
fi ghting theirway to the top of their
profession. All of them have had
to face and conquer injuries and
challenges and havingto choose
the moment when they retire.
Romping through the archive
helpsto emphasise the connection
to the necessarily absentfi gure
of Schumacher.
While you will be ableto catch
Heroesin cinemas soon, it’savailable
to stream now on motorsport.tv.HEROES
Author/directorManishPandey
PriceFrom £3.99/month
motorsport.tv136 GP RACING MARCH 2020
Enhance the F1experience with
the latest must-have productsF1 UPGRADES
Formula 1’s emphasis on effective
leadership,technological agility
and operational facility makes it
a natural modelfor management
lessons – including our columnist
Mark Gallagher’stomeThe Business
Of Winning. Formula X’s co-authors
describe their work as “a business
book like no other”, which “uses
the principles ofFormula 1 racing
and applies themto a compulsively
readable and highly relatable fable
for anyone who has ever worked
within an organisation”.ThusFormula X belongsto that
genre of managementtext which
uses simple storytellingtechniques
to impart its manifesto, which is
then broken down and detailed
more specifically via a number of
chapters. The narrative details the
travails of the recently appointed
MD of a kitchen manufacturer as he
deals with various madnesses set
in motionby his maverick proprietor
(who – spoiler alert – also turns
out to be a key in vestor in the
fi ctional F1team from which the
benighted MD draws
transformative
lessons).
If you’re looking
for hard and fast
case studies drawn
from within F1 then
this is probably not
for you. Aside from
a Red Bull VIPtour,
the authors appear
to have drawn most
of their knowledge of
F1 from other books.
But, judgingby the
glowing references on
the jacket – it wasfi rst
published in Dutch last
summer – its theories
have been warmly
receivedby high-ups
in global companies
such as Philips, Unilever
and Nike. They certainly
make senseto us...FINISHING STRAIGHTESSENTIALS
FORMULAX: HOW TO REACH EXTREME
ACCELERATION INYOUR ORGANISATION
AuthorsJurrianKamer, Rini vanSolin gen
Price£19.95
formula-x.coFrom the writer of the award-winning
SennacomesHeroes, a feature-length
journey through the triumphs and
tragedies offour motorsport legends.
Heroesfeatures two-time F1
champion Mika Häkkinen,former
Ferrari grand prix aceFelipe
Massa, nine-timeLe Mans winner
Tom Kristensen and WRC mould-
breaker MicheleMouton, the only
womanto have won rallies at world
championship level. Allfour enjoy a
connection with another star namewhose story is woven into thevery
fabric ofthe fi lm: seven-time F1
champion MichaelSchumacher.
There’s a substantial emotional
depthto the narrative as the
guests share theirexperiences of
fi ghting theirway to the top of their
profession. All of them have had
to face and conquer injuries and
challenges and havingto choose
the moment when they retire.
Romping through the archive
helpsto emphasise the connection
to the necessarily absentfi gure
of Schumacher.
While you will be ableto catch
Heroesin cinemas soon, it’savailable
to stream now on motorsport.tv.HEROES
Author/directorManishPandey
PriceFrom £3.99/month
motorsport.tv136 GP RACING MARCH 2020
Enhance the F1experience with
the latest must-have productsF1 UPGRADES
Formula 1’s emphasis on effective
leadership,technological agility
and operational facility makes it
a natural modelfor management
lessons – including our columnist
Mark Gallagher’stomeThe Business
Of Winning. Formula X’s co-authors
describe their work as “a business
book like no other”, which “uses
the principles ofFormula 1 racing
and applies themto a compulsively
readable and highly relatable fable
for anyone who has ever worked
within an organisation”.ThusFormula X belongsto that
genre of managementtext which
uses simple storytellingtechniques
to impart its manifesto, which is
then broken down and detailed
more specifically via a number of
chapters. The narrative details the
travails of the recently appointed
MD of a kitchen manufacturer as he
deals with various madnesses set
in motionby his maverick proprietor
(who – spoiler alert – also turns
out to be a key in vestor in the
fi ctional F1team from which the
benighted MD draws
transformative
lessons).
If you’re looking
for hard and fast
case studies drawn
from within F1 then
this is probably not
for you. Aside from
a Red Bull VIPtour,
the authors appear
to have drawn most
of their knowledge of
F1 from other books.
But, judgingby the
glowing references on
the jacket – it wasfi rst
published in Dutch last
summer – its theories
have been warmly
receivedby high-ups
in global companies
such as Philips, Unilever
and Nike. They certainly
make senseto us...