My Championship Year by Jenson Button
My Championship Year (Jenson Button's Brawn GP Title Season Account)
Jenson Button's Race-by-Race Account of the 2009 Brawn GP Season and His Formula One World Championship
Bibliographic Specifications
- Title: My Championship Year
- Author: Jenson Button
- Editor: Sarah Edworthy
- Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London
- Publication Date: 2009
- ISBN-13: 9780297860129
- Edition Details: First published in Great Britain in 2009. Edited by Sarah Edworthy, with a foreword by Ross Brawn.
- Binding: Publisher's illustrated glossy card wrappers (paperback), perfect bound, with yellow spine.
- Physical Format: Large softcover (trade paperback), illustrated throughout with colour photographs and results tables.
- Language: English
Official Condition Report
- The Book: Very Good Plus (VG+)
- Exterior / Wraps: The glossy photographic wrappers are clean and bright, with no visible tears. The yellow spine is intact and legible, with no obvious creasing. There is slight general wear to the edges and corners. The back cover is clean. The page block edges are slightly toned.
- Interior: The text block appears tight and the pages clean and bright, with colour photographs and results tables throughout. No markings were seen in the pages examined.
- The Dust Jacket: Not Applicable (As Issued)
Synopsis & Historical Value
My Championship Year is Jenson Button's own account of the 2009 Formula One season, in which he won the Drivers' World Championship with the newly formed Brawn GP team. The book opens with the uncertainty that followed Honda's withdrawal from the sport in December 2008, when the future of the team and of Button's season hung in the balance.
Button's race-by-race commentary is combined with notes on strategy, on-board radio exchanges, quotes from the team and text messages. The foreword is by Ross Brawn. The narrative follows the season from being written off before it began, through a run of six wins in the first seven races, to the championship being secured at the Brazilian Grand Prix.
Brawn GP's constructors' title in its debut season was a feat never before achieved, which gives the book its place in modern motor-racing history. It is a collectible used copy for Formula One enthusiasts and collectors of motorsport memoirs.
Author Profile: Jenson Button
Jenson Button was born on 19 January 1980 in Frome, Somerset, and made his Grand Prix debut at the age of 20. In 2009, in his tenth season and driving for the newly formed Brawn GP team, he became Formula One World Champion after a stunning drive at the Brazilian Grand Prix.
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