Jenson Button: Life to the Limit: My Autobiography

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Jenson is a charismatic and likeable character and he does a good job of explaining things in an F1 for Dummies kinda way. A very easy read due to the relaxed style, but no big revelations or deep anecdotes, seems like a missed opportunity. He was at all the races, you couldn't see one without the other being somewhere nearby (except when Jenson was ACTUALLY racing, and John was obviously in the garage). Some of them were complete a-holes, to a young man who was working hard and just trying to make his dream a reality. Back in my sailing years, I spent six months sailing from the UK to the Canary Islands, the skipper was too cheap to go into marinas usually, so we had to tie up in the docks.

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. En las reseñas decían que esta lectura era como sentarse a tomar un café con un amigo, confirmo, JB y yo ahora somos besties. The memories he tells tugged at my heartstrings and, yes, made me a little sad, but I loved getting to know the character he was.Jenson Button, personnage dont je me moquais, je le classais comme un pilote très en retrait, peu ouvert et très peu intéressant. Also for a short book, I lost count of how many times he mentioned that he’s a dad now, he lives in California or his partners name. And to get to 10,000 hours in a sport that is both expensive and time consuming you must have a huge level of parental support. My wife used to imagine she had a crush on Jenson Button, a man with everything a girl could want: Tall, suave, well-spoken, successful and thoroughly cashed up, he was an utter charmer. It was also great fun to hear about Jenson's "lazy playboy" reputation in the earlier days (or as the TikTok girlies put it, his infamous sl*g era) from the man himself, and he definitely had a few Monaco-based tales which raised my eyebrows a few centimetres.

Można wręcz pomyśleć, że dla kierowców kolejne wyścigi, choćby nie wiem jak szalone, są po prostu następnym punktem w kalendarzu, który tylko pobieżnie zapisuje się w pamięci. Tym razem tak źle nie było – brytyjski kierowca rzeczywiście poświęcił swoją autobiografię na opis kariery i wspominki. It isn’t just about his F1 glory days – it’s about the trials and tribulations it took to get there. The chapters are short and snappy – which I LOVE – it’s straight to the point, funny, sad and refreshing. com/events/an-afternoon-with-jenson-button-hosted-by-natalie-pinkham-tickets-MPTR7D) and include a copy of the book and access to F1 driving simulators.Although with that said, there certainly are enough little anecdotes sprinkled through that I hadn't heard before to keep the book engaging. I'll admit i've yet to watch Jenson drive but I have been impressed by his role in f1 media post his retirement from the sport. Jenson’s World Championship victory for the unsponsored and unfancied Brawn GP team is one of the most extraordinary against-the-odds sports stories of the century. s. And Jack Hawkins gives a very good rendering of the book, his voice not too dissimilar to that of the authod, the nuanced way in which he speaks captured pretty well. El libro cierra con imágenes de todo lo que fue contando, que si bien me hubiese gustado que estuvieran cada una en la parte del libro donde hablan de eso y no todas juntas al final, fue una excelente manera de anclar la imagen visual que nos narraba.

He currently competes in the Japanese Super GT Series driving for Team Kunimitsu, in which he won the title in 2018.F1, FORMULA ONE, FORMULA 1, FIA FORMULA ONE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP, GRAND PRIX and related marks are trade marks of Formula One Licensing B. Life to the limit is well worth reading for anyone who is interested in Formula1, especially if you have followed Jenson Button’s career. The engineering behind making the cars and suiting them to the driver's needs, the physics following getting off the accelerator and reaching top speed, why you don't overtake on straights unless you get a good exit from a corner etc. From a distance, though, I agree wholeheartedly with one observation he makes in relation to two of the sport's all-time greats, Ayrton Senna and 'The Professor' Alain Prost. Come down the travelators, exit Sainsbury's, turn right and follow the pedestrianised walkway to Crown Walk and turn right - and Coles will be right in front of you.

While he may be being a bit diplomatic at times, you can hear his voice through the book, it doesn’t sound ghost written, it feels like his words put on paper. Jenson Button comes across as your big brother taking you aside and explaining all of the tricks of the trade that he acquired over his lengthy career in Formula 1. As a huge fan of Jenson Button's I was really looking forward to reading this book and it obviously didn't disappoint. This early section dives into Jenson’s family growing up in Somerset and the major guiding influence of his father, John Button.

Naming no names, some of them were complete arseholes, to a young man who was working hard and just trying to make his dream a reality, for God’s sake. By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. The event challenges the traditional format of a book launch and aims to take readers behind the wheel by immersing them in the unique venue. How to be an F1 Driver will recreate the sights, sounds and smells of being in the cockpit travelling at over 200 miles per hour, the fear of death, what happens when it goes wrong at high speed and the euphoria of crossing the line in first. Sosem volt elég gyors egy körön, az időmérőkön rendre megverték, de azért az árulkodó tény, hogy amíg csapattársak voltak a McLarennél, addig összességében több pontot gyűjtött, mint a sportág jelenlegi királya, Lewis Hamilton (bár ez a többlet egy szezonban alakult ki igazából).