After spending nine years driving some of the slowest and most unreliable F1 cars on the grid, Jenson Button's career was reignited thanks to the newly-formed Brawn GP team. In 'A Championship Year' Jenson describes the highs and lows of his 2009 season as he tries to claim the 'holy grail' of motorsport - the F1 world championship.

Jenson Button is one of the greatest racing drivers of his generation. His seventeen years in Formula 1 have seen him experience everything the sport has to offer, from nursing underpowered cars around the track to winning World Championships and everything in between. Here, Jenson tells his full story for the first time in his own honest, intelligent and eloquent style. From growing up as part of a motor-racing-mad family under the guidance of his father, John, to arriving at Williams as a fresh-faced 20 year-old, to being written off by some as a playboy and his fight back to the very...