{"id":77362,"date":"2022-08-22T12:14:35","date_gmt":"2022-08-22T10:14:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/?p=77362"},"modified":"2023-02-07T21:03:39","modified_gmt":"2023-02-07T20:03:39","slug":"the-best-formula-1-documentaries-of-all-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2022\/08\/the-best-formula-1-documentaries-of-all-time\/","title":{"rendered":"The Best Formula 1 Documentaries of All Time"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

These days, sporting documentaries are an intrinsic part of pop culture. From ESPN’s multi-award winning 30 For 30<\/em> series to this summer’s cinema ace<\/a>, McEnroe<\/em>, it seems that our sporting idols are a permanent fixture of screens big and small. But it wasn’t always so. Way back when, sports documentaries were seen as the preserve of the aficionado, focusing on minority interest sports like cycling (1976’s A Sunday In Hell<\/em>) or lower league incarnations of bigger ones (Channel 4’s infamous 1995 Club For A Fiver<\/em> tracking the (mis)fortunes of Leyton Orient). 1996’s When We Were Kings<\/em> changed all that. The story of the 1974 ‘Rumble In The Jungle’ between George Foreman and Muhammad Ali scooped a cinema release and an Oscar. Fans flocked. Studios sat up and took notice.<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

With TV and film’s fixations on four wheels ranging from The Dukes of Hazzard<\/em> to The Fast And The Furious<\/em>, F1 would seem a natural fit for documentaries. However, pre-2000, the only one of much note was Roman Polanski’s 1972 Weekend Of A Champion<\/em>. It tracked the 1971 Monaco GP through Jackie Stewart, and faded into relative obscurity. Now, though, there’s a glut. 2020 alone saw retrospectives on Juan Manuel Fangio, Jochen Rindt and Willy T. Ribbs. Let’s sort through a crowded field and find four of the favourites for pole position.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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