Jenson Button: Life To The Limit (my Autobiography)

By (author) Button Jenson
Description
LONGLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2018 This is my life, not the stuff you''ve seen, but the things you haven''t. This is my childhood growing up in the West Country, my struggles, my doubts and my hopes. It''s the people I''ve met in my seventeen years in Formula One, many of whom I''ve loved, some of whom I definitely haven''t. It''s the laughs I''ve shared, the battles I''ve fought, some on the track with rivals and friends like Fernando Alonso, Lewis Hamilton and Sebastian Vettel. It''s the pressure I struggled with as I closed in on my World Championship in 2009, it''s the calm I felt every time I settled into the cockpit. It''s my dad - the many times he saved me, the one moment he doubted me, the hole in my life he left me. It''s everything in one go, the good days as well as the bad. A life lived not just as a racing driver but, ultimately, as a human being.
Biographical note
Born in Frome, Somerset, British Racing driver Jenson Button has been in Formula 1 for seventeen years, appearing in 309 grands prix, the second most in history. He won the 2009 Formula One World Championship, driving for Brawn GP. Outside of racing, he set up the Jenson Button Trust for his fundraising activities which includes the Jenson Button Triathlon which has raised money for Help For Heroes, Cancer Research and now Barnardo''s.
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The full-length, in-depth and intimate autobiography from Jenson Button, one of Britain''s greatest ever racing drivers.
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Jenson Button is one of the greatest racing drivers of his generation. He has raced in Formula 1 for the last 17 years, winning 15 grands prix. In 2009 he won the World Championship for the unsponsored Brawn Racing team in one of the most incredible, against-the-odds sports stories of the century.
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Button is one of the the most popular figures in sport. He has over 2.7 million fans on Twitter, 1 million likes on Facebook and over 600,000 followers on Instagram
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Jenson''s previous book, which wasn''t an autobiography - A Championship Year - sold over 70,000 copies through TCM
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Formula 1 is a sport that resonates with book buyers. Fellow British World Champion Lewis Hamilton sold over 300,000 copies of his book, while books by Damon Hill and Mark Webber have sold over 50,000 copies each in the last two years.
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This is the first full autobiography of one of Britain''s most successful sportsmen. Uncensored, honest and raw, it is packed with exclusive insights and unknown stories, delivering behind the scenes access to life in Formula 1.