The History and Politics of Motor Racing Lives in the Fast Lane

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).