Pressure
As lead presenter for Sky Sports Formula One live coverage, Simon Lazenby is at the centre of all the Grand Prix race-weekend action. In this book, he takes us off camera, to give us exclusive, high-level behind-the-scenes access to this multi-billion pound sports spectacle.
Drawing on over a decade’s accumulated first-hand knowledge and connections across the paddock, Simon selects twenty-five key individuals within the teams and the overall organisation, from strategists and comms directors to riggers and truckies, through drivers and mechanics, and talks to each in depth about their role, how it fits into the bigger picture, and about what it takes to win.
We’ll see split-second mid-race decision-making at the pitwall, lightning physical and technical efficiency in the pitlane, cliff-edge brinkmanship in eye-watering board room deals, emergency medical interventions, genius design innovation and much more inside track action. This will be a unique insight into human performance, ingenuity and specialist skill at the highest level, bringing man and machine together to compete at speeds of 230 miles per hour.
Simon Lazenby has been the lead presenter of Sky Sports F1 since its inception in 2012. He joined Sky Sports in 1998, starting off 'making teas and coffees'. After a screen test, he was sent out to report on a variety of sports as well as presenting Sky Sports News, test cricket and golf, before becoming lead rugby presenter from 2002 to 2011. Simon lives in South West London with his wife and two children. This is his first book.