Pitlane Lessons: What F1 Can Teach You About Life and Work
By (Author) Marc 'Elvis' Priestley
Vintage Publishing
The Bodley Head Ltd
30th November 2025
30th October 2025
United Kingdom
Hardback
320
Width 156mm, Height 240mm, Spine 40mm
750g
From the industry leading speaker, business consultant, coach & mentor from the high performance world of Formula One, these are the key lessons learned at the elite level of sport - and how to make them work for you Foreword by Jake Humphrey, author of HIGH PERFORMANCE. Formula 1 teams operate at the highest level of any competitive sport - and indeed of any industry. With huge sums of money, global prestige and even lives on the line, they must constantly work at an elite level to survive and succeed. Drawing on over a decades' worth of experience working for one of the most successful F1 teams in history, Marc Priestley shows how you can take lessons learned from and amongst the world's best, and use them in your work and life. Looking at areas including teamwork, leadership, celebrating success, responding to failures and more, these are lessons taken from the pitlane, and applied to every day life.
Marc 'Elvis' Priestley worked for McLaren Racing as a Formula One mechanic and member of the pitstop crew from 2000-2009. He worked with a distinguished list of drivers including Mika Hakkinen, David Coulthard, Kimi Raikkonen, Jean Alesi, Juan Pablo Montoya, Fernando Alonso and Lewis Hamilton. Following his retirement from McLaren, Elvis's first broadcast role was as pitlane reporter for BBC Radio 5 Live, where he was able to share his vast technical experience of the cars and equipment with listeners. Since then, Elvis has become an integral part of Sky's F1 coverage. He is now a co-host on the channel's studio-based chat show, The F1 Report, as well as attending a number of Grand Prix events. Twitter- @f1elvis