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From nowhere to the winner's podium: the story of Jenson Button's astonishing domination of the F1 world championship. On 4 December 2008, just a few months before the new season was due to start, the Honda Racing F1 team, which Jenson Button had been driving for since 2006, pulled the plug on their involvement in Formula One. The media at the time reported that it was likely that the factory would be forced to shut, and it was unlikely that Jenson would be able to secure a drive at a top team at this late stage. Yet incredibly, in October 2009, Jenson Button was crowned World Champion, and the new team that had risen from the ashes of the Honda Racing F1 team - Brawn GP - secured the constructors' championship in their first season, a feat never before achieved. If this were a movie script you wouldn't believe it possible, so how did it happen? A CHAMPIONSHIP YEAR tells Jenson's incredible story of the 2009 season, from being written off pre-season to winning six of the first seven races, and finally securing the championship in brilliant style at the Brazilian Grand Prix. Jenson's personal commentary on the races is combined with notes on strategy, on-board radio exchanges, quotes from the team and even text messages to recreate the atmosphere of each race weekend. With a foreword by Ross Brawn, it is a fascinating account of an extraordinary grand prix year, and shows just what it takes to become world champion. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Presentation wise this book looks great and is filled with lots of fantastic pictures, with circuit diagrams and various stats throughout. As you would expect the narrative depicts the amazing turnaround Button experienced, from the depths of thinking he wouldn't have an F1 drive in 2009, to a thrilling climax to the season in which he was crowned World Champion.
Unfortunately much of the text is dry and uninteresting, and reveals little extra than gained from following the season during the year. Confusingly the writing switches from a diary like style, sounding like it it had been written during the race weekends, to a more reviewing style, as if written long after the event took place. Some of the descriptions of the events left a little to be desired too. For example the battle between Mark Webber and Jenson in the China Grand Prix was described as follows:
"Then another safety car came out and brought us all back together. Mark made a mistake and I was able to drive past him. Then I made a mistake, and he got back past me, and then he made a small mistake and I passed him, and then I made a mistake and he got past me again, so it was a good little fight we had."
Hardly worthy of a literacy prize, and did little to help imagine the situation unfolding.
My other main criticism was the repetition of events during a race weekend. Each race provides separate strategy and Brawn technical updates summaries (In the acknowledgements Andrew Shovlin - Jenson's Race Engineer & James Vowles - Brawn GP's Strategy Engineer are given credit for assisting with these) which often say pretty much the same things and are then repeated in the main text, often more than once.
Despite these criticisms there was some good stuff in this book, and some little insights from Jenson, such as his pre race weekend preparations and conversations with Brawn colleagues, family and friends, made this a worthwhile read. With the aforementioned excellent pictures it provides a nice memento from what was a remarkable season for Jenson.
Overall I'd only recommend for big Formula One and / or Jenson Button fans. If you're neither of those, and are perhaps just after an interesting sporting memoir, I'd give this one a miss. (