Survive. Drive. Win.: The Inside Story of Brawn GP and Jenson Button's Incredible F1 Championship Win

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For the first time, Nick Fry, the former CEO of Honda Racing F1 Team, Brawn GP and Mercedes AMG Petronas Formula One team, reveals the inside story of the astonishing Brawn GP championship win in 2009 with Jenson Button. This is the full story of how the team was saved from disintegration when Honda suddenly pulled out of Formula One; the management buyout for 1.00; and its subsequent sale to Mercedes for 140 million. As CEO, Nick Fry was in the driving seat for one of the most incredible journeys in the history of motorsport. Here, he gives an up-close-and-personal account of how he and Ross Brawn turned disaster into championship glory, and offers a unique and thrilling perspective on an elite global sport.

Nick Fry was appointed the managing director of the BAR Formula One team in 2002. When Honda pulled out of F1 in 2008, Fry led a management buy-out, becoming CEO of the Brawn GP team. After the sale of the team to Mercedes he became CEO of Mercedes AMG Petronas Formula One Team before leaving in 2013. Ed Gorman is a journalist with The Times. He has worked as a war and foreign correspondent, and, as motor racing correspondent, he attended 60 consecutive F1 races between 2006-09. In 2017 he published a memoir, Death of a Translator.

The story of Brawn GP is legendary. Imagine sitting at home at Christmas thinking you were out of a job, then by next Christmas you were a World Champion. This is F1's Leicester City story - it's every bit as exciting and magical. -- Damon Hill It is refreshing for a book to be written about a sport as exciting as Formula One which covers the enormous amount of work that happens behind the scenes to bring two cars to the grid. Until now I had not seen this in a book about our sport. -- Sir Jackie Stewart Nick Fry and Ed Gorman take us behind the mysterious and tightly closed doors of F1 to tell the remarkable story of the 2009 season, through the eyes of someone at the centre of the action. -- Martin Brundle Fascinating detail covering efforts behind the scenes to keep Brawn GP alive and on course for their extraordinary World Championship. Nick Fry gives a refreshingly honest and, at times, self-deprecating account. Reporting from the sidelines, it's clear we only knew half the story... -- Maurice Hamilton, award-winning motor-sport writer and broadcaster This book portrays all that is good about Britain. The very best talent in motor sport, excellent designers, engineers and sound business leaders who kept their heads in a crisis... and then went on to win a World Championship against all the odds in the most ruthlessly competitive sport there is. A truly inspiring story. -- Lord Digby Jones, Former Director General of the CBI and former Minister of State for UK Trade & Investment