1. Introduction.- SECTION I: THE ORIGINS OF MOTOR SPORT. 2. ‘The Origins of Motor Sport in France: Sites of Racing Memory.- 3. The long winding road to stability and innovation. The politics and development of the World Rally Championship.- SECTION II: THE EARLY POLITICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF MOTOR RACING - 4. Racing and Racism: German Motorsport and the Third Reich.- 5. Henry Ford and the Rise of US Motorsport .- 6. ‘The Fascist Race Par Excellence’: Fascism and the Mille Miglia.- 7. Vargas, Perón and Motor Sport: a Comparative Study of South American Populism.- SECTION III: MOTOR RACING AND THE AUTOMOBILE INDUSTRY - 8. Politics, Motor Sport and the Italian Car Industry, 1893-1947.- 9. British Motor Sport and the Rise of the Garagisti.- SECTION IV: MOTOR RACING AND THE POLITICS OF GENDER.- 10. It Was Ironic He Should Have Died in Bed: Racing Drivers, Masculinity and the Politics of Safety.- 11. From Power Puff to W Series: The Evolution of Women-Only Racing.- 12. The Awkward Gender Politics of Formula 1 as a Promotional Space. The ‘Grid Girls’ issue.- SECTION V: MOTOR RACING AND THE POLITICS OF RACE - 13. A Political and Economic Analysis of South Africa’s Historical Relationship with Formula One Motor Racing, 1934–1993.- 14. Recovering the Black Geographies of Motorsports: The Counter-Mobility Work of NASCAR’s Wendell Scott.- 15. Can the Formula One Driver Speak? Lewis Hamilton, Race and the Resurrection of the Black Athlete.- SECTION VI: MOTOR RACING, THE MEDIA, AND POSTMODERNITY - 16. Formula One as Television.- 17. The Shifting Landscape of Sponsorship within Formula 1.- 18. ‘Men love women, but even more than that, men love cars’: Motor Racing on Film.- 19. ‘Who D’You Think You Are? Stirling Moss?’ British Racing Drivers and the Politics of Celebrity:  1896 to 1992.- 20. ‘The star in the car’: Formula One Stardom, Driver Agency and Celebrity Culture.- 21. Neoliberal Interpellation in the F1 2018 Video Game.- 22. Ecclestone out, Liberty Media in. An Analysis of the Shifting Ownership Structure of Formula One.- SECTION VII: THE GLOBALISATION OF MOTOR RACING - 23. The Circus Comes to Town: Formula 1, Globalization, and the Uber-Sport Spectacle.- 24. Circuits of Capital: The Spatial Development of Formula One Racetracks.- 25. Formula 1 as a Vehicle for Urban Transformation in China: State Entrepreneurialism and the Re-Imaging of Shanghai.- 26. Event on the Streets: the Formula 1 Azerbaijan Grand Prix and the Commodification of Urban Space in Baku.- 27. Motor Sport in the Middle East: Business and Political Rivalries in the Arabian Gulf.- 28. Stray dogs and luxury taxes: What happened to the Indian Grand Prix?.- 29. Formula One and the Insanity of Car-Based Transportation.

"This expansive volume stands as the definitive scholarly work on the global motorsport industry to date. The broad scope of subject matter is comprehensive, providing significant theoretical and empirical insights into the complex dynamics shaping the relationship between motorsport and society." — Mark Lowes, Associate Professor in the Department of Communication, University of Ottawa, Canada “This compelling collection deftly maps the social, political, and economic contours of racing from local grassroots events to such international spectacles as Formula One racing to provide much-needed, critical attention on motorsports—which to date have received insufficient scholarly attention.” — Mary G. McDonald, Homer C. Rice Chair in Sports and Society, Georgia Institute of Technology, USAThis book explores the history and politics of motor racing, one of the most popular and lucrative elements in the international sport industry. Written by a group of international scholars and motor racing specialists it discusses the sport’s origins, the relationship of motor racing to nation building and modernity (noting its links to fascism and dictatorship), the links between motor racing and the automobile industry, motor racing and the politics both of gender and of race, motor racing, the media and postmodernity, and motor racing, the spatial and globalization. This book speaks to scholars in history, politics, sport studies, the sociology of sport, sport management and cultural studies, along with the many lay readers who are interested in the relationship between motor sport and society.Damion Sturm is a Senior Lecturer in Sport Management at Massey University (Auckland, New Zealand).With a specialisation in global sport media cultures (inclusive of celebrity, fan and material cultures), he recently co-edited Sport in Aotearoa New Zealand: Contested Terrain (with Roslyn Kerr, 2022), co-authored Media, Masculinities and the Machine (with Dan Fleming, 2011), and has published works on mediatisation, technological innovations and sporting events (Formula One, the Indy 500, Formula E, Formula One eSports, cricket, rugby league and the America’s Cup).Stephen Wagg retired as Professor of Sport and Society at Leeds Beckett University, UK, in 2019. He is now an Honorary Fellow in the International Centre for Sport History and Culture at De Montfort University in Leicester. He has written widely on the politics of sport, of childhood and of comedy. His latest book is Cricket: A Political History of the Global Game 1945-2017 (2018).David L. Andrews is Professor of Physical Cultural Studies in the Department of Kinesiology at the University of Maryland, College Park, USA.  His research contextualizes sport and physical culture in relation to the intersecting cultural, political, economic, and technological forces shaping contemporary society.  His books include: Making Sport Great Again?: The Uber-Sport Assemblage, Neoliberalism, and the Trump Conjuncture (2019, Palgrave Macmillan), The Routledge Handbook of Physical Cultural Studies (2017), and Sport, Physical Culture, and the Moving Body: Materialisms, Technologies, Ecologies (2020).

"This expansive volume stands as the definitive scholarly work on the global motorsport industry to date. The broad scope of subject matter is comprehensive, providing significant theoretical and empirical insights into the complex dynamics shaping the relationship between motorsport and society." (Mark Lowes, Associate Professor in the Department of Communication, University of Ottawa, Canada)   “Despite its global popularity motor sport has driven, conspicuously, under the radar of serious scholarly analysis. The editors fill this gap with a comprehensive and critical exploration of the history and politics of motor racing that spans both temporal and geographic boundaries. In combination, the rich set of essays provides unique insights into the contested terrain of the sport in relation to identity politics, environmental sustainability and empty corporate social responsibility campaigns.” (Steven Jackson, Professor in the School of Physical Education, Sport & Exercise Sciences, University of Otago, New Zealand)   “The History and Politics of Motor Racing: Lives in the Fast Lane offers astute analyses of the global sport’s often dubious linkages to the automobile industry, technological change, and environmentalism while also revealing the exclusionary politics of masculinity, race, and nation. This compelling collection deftly maps the social, political, and economic contours of racing from local grassroots events to such international spectacles as Formula One racing to provide much-needed, critical attention on motorsports—which to date have received insufficient scholarly attention.” (Mary G. McDonald, Homer C. Rice Chair in Sports and Society, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)

Provides a one-stop shop for understanding the history, politics, and social/cultural dynamics of motor sports Covers a broad swath of motor racing forms and types -- from early competition to F1 to NASCAR to eSports Takes a broad, international approach

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