{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/3d30295e-f7fb-5af1-b618-30a8763cc75a/6aec8d150044c0a61fdc62be?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Jenson Button: How I Nearly Threw Away My F1 World Title","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/61ba3b961a8cbe53713cf2c2/1793888706390-a50c05b9-206e-42ea-8b45-f8726f7583c2.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>Jenson Button won six of the first seven races of 2009, then nearly talked himself out of a world title. This is Jenson at his most candid about what really goes on behind the visor.</p><p><br></p><p>Originally released in 2021, he takes us back to the start: parents who split when he was seven, a dad who spent every penny in his account on a go-kart, and a mum who tried to stop him racing before becoming his biggest supporter. Then the early Formula One years — a boss who told the world he was a playboy, a team that never backed him, and the move to BAR that he calls the best of his life.</p><p>And 2009: the pressure he piled on himself, the headlines, the physio who finally said “just talk to me,” and the pint with his dad the night before Brazil.</p><p><br></p><p>Moments that will stay with you:</p><ul><li>The car journey home from Scotland, and the words he kept from his dad until he became world champion</li><li>Flavio Briatore’s yacht jibe, delivered while Jenson’s hands were blistered from a power-steering failure</li><li>The bad-race ritual: write it down, put it in your pocket, move on</li><li>Breaking his hand on a bar drum in Tokyo days before the Japanese GP, then strapping it to the steering wheel to race</li><li>Why he thought he was “too much of a man” to ask for help</li><li>Driving to what you feel, not what you see</li></ul>","author_name":"High Performance"}