Preview of Assouline’s ‘Formula 1: The Impossible Collection, Second Edition’
Max Verstappen of Red Bull during a practice session at the 2023 Las Vegas Grand Prix.
Max Verstappen of Red Bull during a practice session at the 2023 Las Vegas Grand Prix.
The Renault R30 from 2010, which led the team to fifth position in the constructors’ championship and had a highest finish of second place at the Australian Grand Prix, with Robert Kubica driving.
Driver Lewis Hamilton ready for action on his first day at Scuderia Ferrari in Maranello, Italy, January 2025.
A poster celebrating the 15th Monaco Grand Prix, as it counted all the Grand Prix races staged in the Principality since the first one, held in 1929.
In the early 1990s, the Ferrari F1-90, designed by John Barnard, with which Alain Prost nearly won the title in 1990, was included in an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.
Pirelli has been the only supplier of tires to Formula One teams since 2011. The different color stripes on the tires signify their varying degrees of hardness, as well as their specified uses for track conditions.
On April 27, 1975, Maria Grazia “Lella” Lombardi became the first woman to score (half) a point in Formula One.
Team factories reached another level with the inauguration of the McLaren Technology Centre, designed by Lord Norman Foster, 2004.
Michael Schumacher in his car before the start of the Belgian Grand Prix, 1996.
After twelve seasons and six championships with Mercedes, Hamilton made the move to team Ferrari beginning in 2025.
Schumacher celebrates after the San Marino Grand Prix, 1996.
Verstappen takes the checkered flag to win the 2023 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix and his third consecutive drivers’ title.
The 2021 season ended with a dramatic and controversial final-lap showdown between Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen, who were tied in points before the last race, the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.
A pit stop for the rookie driver Lewis Hamilton in his second Formula One race, at the 2007 Malaysian Grand Prix. He finished second in the race, and by year’s end he finished second in the championship.
Heikki Kovalainen driving his Renault R27 with an onboard camera in a photo shoot at the Zandvoort circuit in the Netherlands, 2007.
September 5, 1971: At the Italian Grand Prix in Monza, Englishman Peter Gethin, in a BRM, won by just 0.01 seconds ahead of Ronnie Peterson, in a March Ford. It remains the closest race finish ever.
After the 2000 Belgian Grand Prix, Mika Häkkinen demonstrates his winning passing move to Michael Schumacher.