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Company reading list | Reading time: 1 minute | Updated March 2026 | 4 resources

The Formula One Business Playbook: Books, Documentaries, and Strategy Behind Motorsport's Richest Sport

Total Competition, How to Build a Car, Drive to Survive, and Liberty Media analysis—beside FTN's F1 and Ferrari playbooks.

Formula One is engineering competition compressed into seconds-per-lap economics: regulations as design constraints, wind tunnels as strategy, and media rights as the real business model. FTN profiles F1, Ferrari, and Mercedes; this list covers insider engineering memoirs, business structure analysis, and the Netflix-era audience explosion.

Engineering and Strategy Memoirs

Total Competition

Ross Brawn and Adam Parr · Book

Regulation, engineering trade-offs, and team dynamics across decades—the insider strategist view.

How to Build a Car

Adrian Newey · Book

Aerodynamics genius on design philosophy—technical memoir with race narrative.

Documentary and Media

Drive to Survive (Netflix)

Netflix · Documentary

Narrative accessibility that rebuilt F1's audience—study media strategy alongside racing content.

Business Structure

Commercial transformation: race hosting fees, media rights, and cost-cap economics.

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