Audiobooks by Ben Hunt

Forever Forward: The inside story of McLaren Formula 1

"Brought to you by Penguin. With a foreword by McLaren CEO Zak Brown and written with inside access, this is the real-time, unfolding story of one of F1’s greatest ever teams, as they rise back up from oblivion. Few names in motorsports carry the same authority as McLaren and, with their remarkable victory in the 2024 constructors championship, they are now returning to form in a spectacular way under the leadership of Zak Brown. Going into 2023, Brown’s team were the second slowest on the grid, only to end it as arguably the second fastest, after a dramatic mid-season turnaround. In 2024, their driver Lando Norris achieved his first ever Grand Prix win in Miami, and McLaren fiercely competed for podiums against Ferrari and Red Bull. Zak Brown took over a failing team from Ron Dennis in 2018, and his strategic vision is now seeing results. McLaren are on the rise again, looking to a future that will echo its hallowed past and legendary drivers James Hunt, Alain Prost, Niki Lauda, Ayrton Senna and Lewis Hamilton. With access to the team's inner sanctum, this exhilarating account delves deep into McLaren’s history, revealing how their rich heritage forms the core of their identity today, before taking us behind the scenes to give us the inside track on their extraordinary resurgence. Guided by the motto motto ‘Forever Forward’, McLaren has a tradition of coming back from adversity time and time again to take the chequered flag against all the odds. Here they go again. © Ben Hunt 2025 (P) Penguin Audio 2025"

Ben Hunt (Author), Nigel Barden (Narrator)

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[German] - Red Bull Racing: Die Geschichte hinter dem Erfolg

"Zwei Jahrzehnte Motorsport-Geschichte: Ein Blick hinter die Kulissen von Red Bull Racing 'No Risk, No Fun' lautet einer der Leitsätze von Teamchef Christian Horner für das Red Bull Racing Team. Das beschreibt sehr gut die Motivation und den Weg zum Erfolg der Rennfahrer aus diesem Stall. Dieses Motorsport-Buch gibt einen Einblick in die Red Bull-Geschichte und die der Formel 1: Von den turbulenten Anfängen bis zu den Seriensiegen, von Rivalitäten und Kontroversen: - Ein eindrucksvolles Zeugnis des Strebens nach Erfolg: Die Chronik des Rennstalls - Red Bull-Gründer Dietrich Mateschitz: Wie aus einer Idee eines der erfolgreichsten Formel 1-Teams wurde - Von David Coulthard über Sebastian Vettel zu Max Verstappen: Die berühmten Rennfahrer von Red Bull Racing - Ein inspirierendes Geschenk für Formel 1-Fans - Formel 1-Weltmeister: Was mit den richtigen Leuten, dem richtigen Spirit und der richtigen Einstellung möglich ist Legenden der Formel 1: Wie sich das Team an die Spitze kämpfte Die 'Tochtergesellschaft eines Softdrinkherstellers' wurde vor allem in der Anfangszeit von der Konkurrenz auf der Rennstrecke nicht immer ernst genommen. Doch nach zwei Jahrzehnten steht fest: Red Bull Racing ist ein voller Erfolg! F1-Journalist und Autor Ben Hunt zeichnet die Geschichte dieses recht jungen Formel 1-Teams nach: Er hat unzählige Interviews geführt, gibt spannende Einblicke in die faszinierenden Persönlichkeiten, die Motorsport-Geschichte geschrieben haben, und fasst die vielen Formel 1-Rekorde noch einmal zusammen, die Red Bull Racing bisher eingefahren hat. Die Betonung liegt auf 'bisher' – denn eines ist klar: Die Erfolgsgeschichte dieses Teams ist noch lange nicht zu Ende erzählt!"

Ben Hunt (Author), Hagen Winterfels (Narrator)

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Growing Wings: The inside story of Red Bull Racing

"Brought to you by Penguin. Intrigue, high-stakes machinations and adrenaline-fuelled track action – Growing Wings is the never-before-told inside story of how the grid’s most fascinating, swagger-rich and win-at-all-costs team competed their way to total domination and disrupted Formula One’s world order. With exclusive access to Red Bull's inner sanctum, leading F1 writer Ben Hunt probes the operations of a world-beating Formula One team over its eventful twenty-year history, from the rivalries, turbulence and controversy, to the game-changing tech and the leadership strategies. He also talks to the drivers themselves, including Webber and Vettel, for a fascinating insight into the mindset of motorsport athletes through success, risk and challenge. Endorsed with a foreword by Team Principal Christian Horner, but maintaining journalistic independence, this is a thrilling, frank and unvarnished 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 outplay the competition in a way never before seen in Formula One. ©2024 Ben Hunt (P)2024 Penguin Audio"

Ben Hunt (Author), Nigel Barden (Narrator)

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Lando Norris: A Biography

"From established sports journalist Ben Hunt, the very first biography of the up-and-coming British driver Lando Norris, published on the brink of the British Grand Prix. As the youngest ever British Formula 1 driver, Lando Norris is trailblazing his way through the world of motor racing. After signing as a junior driver for McLaren in 2017, he has since asserted himself as the team's brightest talent and an aspiring world champion. Born to British and Belgian parents and raised in the idylls of south-west of England, Lando's childhood reflects how even the calmest of upbringings can create an adrenaline junkie. As one of a new cohort of young drivers seeking to assert their dominance in the sport, Lando is a uniquely modern sportsman, who celebrates learning and personal development, but who nonetheless has the killer instinct required to take him to the very pinnacle of F1. In Lando Norris, motor sport aficionado and journalist Ben Hunt draws on his extensive driver and paddock access to seek to understand what makes Lando tick and examines how this young British driver has been well and truly raised in the mould of a champion."

Ben Hunt (Author), Frazer Blaxland (Narrator)

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