
ISBN Survive. Drive. Win. book Paperback 288 pages
ISBN Survive. Drive. Win., Paperback, 288 pages
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The Inside Story of Brawn GP and Jenson Button's Incredible F1 Championship Win
The full story of F1's incredible 2009 championship battle has never been told. Until now. In this gripping memoir, Nick Fry, the former CEO of Brawn GP, reveals how he found himself in the driving seat for one of the most incredible journeys in the history of motor sport.In Survive. Drive. Win., Nick gives an up-close-and-personal account of how he and Ross Brawn turned disaster into championship glory when they set up Brawn GP in just thirteen weeks after Honda suddenly pulled out of F1. Along the way he gives the inside track on the drivers, Jenson Button and Rubens Barrichello, the rivalries between teams, on negotiating with Bernie Ecclestone, the deal with Mercedes and working with two global superstars: Michael Schumacher and Lewis Hamilton - and offers a unique and thrilling perspective on an elite global sport.
Nick Fry was appointed the managing director of the BAR Formula One team in 2002, which became the Honda F1 Racing Team in 2006. When Honda pulled out of F1 in 2008, Fry led a management buy-out with Ross Brawn, becoming CEO of the Brawn GP team. After the sale of the team to Mercedes he became CEO of Mercedes-AMG Petronas Motorsport before leaving in 2013. He is currently chairman of the professional e-sports team Fnatic.Ed Gorman was a foreign news correspondent for The Times, covering wars in Afghanistan, the Balkans and Sri Lanka, before becoming the paper's sailing and Formula One writer. He attended sixty consecutive F1 races between 2006-09. In recent years he has been editorial director of the sports management company OC Sport and has published a memoir, Death of a Translator.
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