As Max Verstappen wrapped up his third title in a row this week by winning 19 out of 23 races, it’s easy to forget there was once a time when Formula One seasons went down to the final race of the year.
Lewis Hamilton has been on the wrong end on a couple of recent thrillers, when Verstappen controversially pipped him in 2021 and his Mercedes teammate Lewis Rosberg broke through to win the championship in 2016 and retired immediately afterwards.
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The years between Michael Schumacher, Sebastian Vettel and Hamilton’s dynasties created arguably the most unpredictable and entertaining championship battles for a neutral fan.
And the new Disney documentary Brawn: The Impossible Formula 1 Story charts the thrilling 2009 season and a Hollywood-esque fairytale that will never happen again.
What is the Brawn F1 story?
Brit Jenson Button won the world championship in a tight battle with teammate Rubens Barrichello in a true sporting fairytale. But there’s so much more to the Brawn story than that.
Ross Brawn served as the technical director at Benetton and Ferrari and is seen as the mastermind behind Michael Schumacher’s seven world championships.
After leaving Ferrari, he was lured to the struggling Honda team as team principal, but Honda soon blindsided the team by pulling their funding during the global financial crisis, leaving hundreds of workers out of a...
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