The Official Formula 1™ Season Review 2009
Foreword by Bernie Ecclestone
Publication: Out Now
RRP: £25.00
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 978 1 84425 721 8
The Official Formula 1™ Season Review 2009 provides the reader with an 'access-all-areas' pass to learn first-hand the details behind the stories of the season's 17 races and Jenson Button's World Championship title. The unique approach taken by this fascinating book allows the key personalities involved to throw new light on many of the season's headlines and incidents. Jenson Button, Rubens Barrichello, Lewis Hamilton, Sebastian Vettel, Ross Brawn, Christian Horner and many more reveal the inside track on the season to present an authoritative, definitive account of the 2009 FIA Formula One World Championship.
Each race is chronicled with the aid of stunning colour photography, absorbing text, clearly presented statistics and graphics, presenting an exclusive insight into the on-track action and the race strategy for each round. Superb feature content, supported by fabulous photographs and technical illustrations, looks behind the scenes at the development of each of the 10 teams' cars over the year, while every driver who drove in a Grand Prix during 2009 gives an appraisal of his own season. A season overview provides insight into the year's leading stories, both on-track and off, while a 'round table' of paddock insiders discuss and debate the leading trends and topics of the 2009 season.
The Official Formula 1™ Season Review 2009 is the ultimate record of a remarkable season, capturing the excitement and atmosphere of each Grand Prix weekend, and providing rare behind-the-scenes insight into the Formula One world.
Jenson Button: A World Champion's Story
Alan Henry
Publication: Out Now
RRP: £19.99
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 978 1 84425 936 6
In 2009, Jenson Button achieved his lifetime's ambition of becoming Formula 1 Drivers' World Champion as the Brawn GP team clinched both the Drivers' and Manufacturers' Championships in its debut season.
The foundations for Jenson's future were laid with a successful boyhood karting career, before he moved into car racing. In a remarkable first season in Formula Ford, he won the 1998 British Championship, took victory at the Brands Hatch Formula Ford Festival, finished runner-up in the European Formula Ford Championship, and lifted the BRDC McLaren Autosport Young Driver of the Year award. After a year in the British Formula 3 Championship, Jenson's Formula 1 baptism came with the Williams team in 2000, aged just 20. At the end of an impressive debut season, he transferred to the Benetton team for 2001, rebranded as Renault for 2002, before moving to BAR-Honda for 2003. After a difficult first season with the team, Jenson fought for podium finishes in 2004, ending the season third in the World Championship as the strongest challenger to the dominant Ferraris. The ups and downs of the next few seasons, as the BAR team metamorphosed into the Honda works team, ranged from the elation of his debut win in Hungary in 2006, to the disastrous 2007 and 2008 seasons, which brought him only nine points in two years.
At last, however, Jenson has taken his place in motorsport's hall of fame as the 2009 World Champion after a rollercoaster season, from his debut win for Brawn GP in Australia and his run of six wins from seven races, through the fallow mid-season period, to his championship-winning drive at the Brazilian Grand Prix. This extensively illustrated biography is written by highly respected Formula 1 journalist Alan Henry, who has been reporting on Grand Prix racing since 1973. He is Editor of Autocourse and Grand Prix Editor of Autocar, and his several dozen books include the recently published Stirling Moss: All My Races.
The Brawn Story: The man and the team that turned Formula 1 upside-down
Christopher Hilton
Publication: Out Now
RRP: £18.99
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 978 1 84425 937 3
Ross Brawn became the colossus of Grand Prix racing in 2009 when the team that bears his name won the constructors' title - so prized among the teams - and enabled Jenson Button to become World Champion. This achievement was unprecedented even by the standards of Formula 1 because, ten months before, the whole team - owned by Honda - faced almost immediate extinction. Brawn, engineer and master strategist, had never considered owning a team or even wanted to. He tried to find buyers and in the end faced a simple choice: buy it himself or see it close. He bought it.
This was the beginning of a season drawn into extremes. Button dominated absolutely at the beginning so that, after a lifetime of waiting, the championship seemed to be tumbling headlong into his grasp. Then, almost mysteriously, the winning ebbed away and, as it did, his team-mate Rubens Barrichello, another who'd waited a lifetime, began to drive like a champion. Behind it all stood the colossus: tall, broad-shouldered, softly spoken, invariably genial and to many who follow Formula 1 a familiar presence - yet a stranger.
Ross Brawn came from what he calls a 'Coronation Street' background and how many knew that? He enjoyed slot car racing as a lad, became an engineering apprentice at Harwell, and in 1976 joined Frank Williams's GP team as a machinist, becoming employee number 11. This is the remarkable story of the big bear, as he is affectionately known, and his team, seen through his own eyes and the eyes of those who've known him. It is also the story of many men and women - because, even after drastic economies, Brawn GP still had more than 400 employees. They believed they could turn Formula 1 upside-down and did so one immortal October afternoon at Interlagos when strong men cried, Ross Brawn among them. Author Christopher Hilton followed it all, he has written many best-selling books about Formula 1, including notable biographies of Ayrton Senna and Michael Schumacher.
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The 2009 FIA Formula One World Championship was one of the most unpredictable and dramatic seasons in the history of the sport - from Brawn GP's fairytale 1-2 finish at the opening race in Australia and Jenson Button's dominant early-season form, through the mid-season excitement of six different winners in succession, to the final race of the year in Abu Dhabi. Jenson Button achieved his lifetime's ambition of becoming Formula 1 Drivers' World Champion, playing the starring role in one of Formula One's most remarkable success stories, as the Brawn GP team clinched both the Drivers' and Manufacturers' Championships in its debut season.
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