Jenson Button: How I Nearly Threw Away My F1 World Title

Jenson Button won six of the first seven races of 2009, then nearly talked himself out of a world title. This is Jenson at his most candid about what really goes on behind the visor.

Originally released in 2021, he takes us back to the start: parents who split when he was seven, a dad who spent every penny in his account on a go-kart, and a mum who tried to stop him racing before becoming his biggest supporter. Then the early Formula One years — a boss who told the world he was a playboy, a team that never backed him, and the move to BAR that he calls the best of his life.

And 2009: the pressure he piled on himself, the headlines, the physio who finally said “just talk to me,” and the pint with his dad the night before Brazil.

Moments that will stay with you:

• The car journey home from Scotland, and the words he kept from his dad until he became world champion
• Flavio Briatore’s yacht jibe, delivered while Jenson’s hands were blistered from a power-steering failure
• The bad-race ritual: write it down, put it in your pocket, move on
• Breaking his hand on a bar drum in Tokyo days before the Japanese GP, then strapping it to the steering wheel to race
• Why he thought he was “too much of a man” to ask for help
• Driving to what you feel, not what you see

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