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).

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

Damion Sturm

Stephen Wagg

SECTION I: THE ORIGINS OF MOTOR SPORT

02. 'The Origins of Motor Sport in France: Sites of Racing Memory

Éamon Ó Cofaigh

03. The long winding road to stability and innovation. The politics and development of the World Rally Championship

Samuel Tickell

Hans Erik Næss

Tom Evens

SECTION II: THE EARLY POLITICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF MOTOR RACING

04. Racing and Racism: German Motorsport and the Third Reich

Eberhard Reuß

Sandra Esslinger

05. Henry Ford and the Rise of US Motorsport

Georgios Paris Loizides

06. 'The Fascist Race Par Excellence': Fascism and the Mille Miglia

Paul Baxa

07. Vargas, Perón and Motor Sport: a Comparative Study of South American Populism

Victor Andrade de Melo

Mauricio Drumond

SECTION III: MOTOR RACING AND THE AUTOMOBILE INDUSTRY

08. Politics, Motor Sport and the Italian Car Industry, 1893-1947

Aldo Zana

09. British Motor Sport and the Rise of the Garagisti

Mark Jenkins

Nick Henry

Tim Angus

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

Stephen Wagg

1. From Power Puff to W Series: The Evolution of Women-Only Racing

Chris Lezotte

1. The Awkward Gender Politics of Formula 1 as a Promotional Space. The 'Grid Girls' issue

Honorata Jakubowska

SECTION V: MOTOR RACING AND THE POLITICS OF RACE

1. A Political and Economic Analysis of South Africa's Historical Relationship with Formula One Motor Racing, 1934-1993

Gustav Venter

1. Recovering the Black Geographies of Motorsports: The Counter-Mobility Work of NASCAR's Wendell Scott

Derek H. Alderman

Joshua Inwood

1. Can the Formula One Driver Speak?

Lewis Hamilton, Race and the Resurrection of the Black Athlete

Ben Carrington

SECTION VI: MOTOR RACING, THE MEDIA, AND POSTMODERNITY

1. Formula One as Television

Damion Sturm

1. The Shifting Landscape of Sponsorship within Formula 1

Timothy Dewhirst

Wonkyong Beth Lee

1. 'Men love women, but even more than that, men love cars': Motor Racing on Film

Seán Crosson

1. 'Who D'You Think You Are? Stirling Moss?' British Racing Drivers and the Politics of Celebrity: 1896 to 1992

1. 'The star in the car': Formula One Stardom, Driver Agency and Celebrity Culture

Damion Sturm

1. Neoliberal Interpellation in the F1 2018 Video Game

Daniel S. Traber

1. Ecclestone out, Liberty Media in. An Analysis of the Shifting Ownership Structure of Formula One

Tom Evens

Samuel Tickell

Hans Erik Næss

SECTION VII: THE GLOBALISATION OF MOTOR RACING

1. The Circus Comes to Town: Formula 1, Globalization, and the Uber-Sport Spectacle

Jacob J. Bustad

David L. Andrews

Michael Friedman

Brandon Wallace

1. Formula 1 as a Vehicle for Urban Transformation in China:

State Entrepreneurialism and the Re-Imaging of Shanghai

Andrew Manley

Bryan Clift

1. Event on the Streets: the Formula 1 Azerbaijan Grand Prix and the Commodification of Urban Space in Baku

David Gogishvili

1. Motor Sport in the Middle East: Business and Political Rivalries in the Arabian Gulf

Mahfoud Amara

Youcef Bouandel

1. Stray dogs and luxury taxes: What happened to the Indian Grand Prix?

Callie Batts Maddox

1. Formula One and the Insanity of Car-Based Transportation

Toby Miller

Brett Hutchins

Libby Lester

Richard Maxwell