"This book is an exhaustive compendium of how not to make sports television. Read it at your peril."
- Craig Slater, F1 News Reporter, Sky Sports UK
A laugh-a-minute Formula One memoir
Starting from the Back of the Grid: Misadventures Inside Formula One's Flying Circus is the hilarious and endearing story of how TV producer and author Kris Henley, an academic flop with a prodigious talent for getting into embarrassing situations, somehow succeeds in the glamorous world of Formula One.
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About Kris
Kris Henley has worked as a freelance TV producer since 1993. Kris's first book, Starting from the Back of the Grid is the culmination of decades of diaries he kept during his eventful career path from rough sleeper on a rubbish tip in Hong Kong to the paddock in Monte Carlo.
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He has worked for Star TV, the Golf Channel, BSkyB, Disney ESPN and Fox Sports covering Formula One, Formula E, other motorsports, boxing, American football and golf. He now lives with his wife and two children in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Ian Henley, co-author and editor of Starting from the Back of the Grid, joined forces with his brother Kris to bring the book to publication.
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With a successful career in sales and marketing for tech companies, Ian founded his own management consultancy and is now retired. He now lives in North London with his wife.
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Press
'Starting from the Back of the Grid: Misadventures Inside Formula One's Flying Circus' has received coverage in local and international press. Click below to read the articles in full.
Jersey Evening Post: 'I went from sleeping rough to interviewing Lewis Hamilton'
by Tom Ogg
Despite an unpromising start, Jersey-born Kris Henley forged a successful – and, at time, chaotic – career as a TV producer in the action-packed world of Formula One.
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