Matt Whyman has co-written books with some of the world’s leading figures in sport, high performance, and popular culture including Gareth Southgate, Matthew Syed, Billy Connolly, and Sir David Attenborough. He is an award-winning novelist and writer of nonfiction. Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS F1 Team is the works team of Mercedes-AMG, competing at the pinnacle of motorsport—the FIA Formula One™ World Championship. Formula One is a sport like no other. Combining elite teamwork, cutting-edge technologies, and innovation, high-performance management and exceptional driving skill, teams develop race cars capable of competing against their rivals in a high-octane environment that spans upwards of twenty races across five continents throughout each season. The Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS F1 Team, based across Technology Centres at Brackley and Brixworth in the United Kingdom, brings together over 1,000 dedicated and determined people who design, develop, manufacture, and race the cars driven by seven-time World Champion Lewis Hamilton and Grand Prix winner George Russell. Winning seven consecutive double Drivers’ and Constructors’ World Championships from 2014 to 2020 and securing a record-breaking eighth consecutive Constructors’ Championship success in 2021, the Team is one of the most successful in the sport’s history. Between returning as a Constructor in 2010 and the end of the 2022 season, the Team has scored 116 wins, 264 podium finishes, 128 pole positions, 91 fastest laps, and 54 one-two finishes from 259 race starts.
