Joest F1 Blog - August 2024

'Porter Press Delivers another flawless performance. A comprehensive, uncompromising book, built around firsthand accounts and packed with previously unpublished information. The author is close to Ross Brawn, but he addresses sensitive topics.'

GP News - November 2024 (Dutch to English translation)

‘If you are into these kinds of books, it gets GP news’ recommendation. Really well written and you learn a lot through David Tremayne’s text. GP news is already looking forward to the next book in the Great Cars series.'

F1 Fanatic - February 2025

'The one-season-wonder story of Brawn GP is by now extremely well-trodden. Perhaps the only remaining unanswered question is who should play Ross Brawn in the inevitable movie. Therefore I approached David Tremayne’s new “autobiography” of the Brawn BGP 001/02 with a touch of trepidation. I need not have worried, however: If you only buy one book on the Brawn story this is the one to get. 

Beautifully designed by Porter Press and accessibly, yet comprehensively, written, this is the complete story of the Brawn GP adventure.

The book is impeccably sourced. Tremayne weaves in all the voices you’d want to hear from in a rounded narrative that doesn’t duck some of the controversies and goes into details that former CEO
Nick Fry omitted from his 2019 memoir. Tremayne also gets the pacing spot-on, with just the right amount of contextualisation.'

Classic Cars

'You can ignore the title of this book, and its inclusion into the Porter Press Great Cars series. Indeed, you’ll turn nearly 80 pages before the particular chassis number if the title even appears. But this doesn't matter because what this book offers is the Brawn GP story in the greatest amount of depth yet told, from a veteran Formula One journalist and author with one of the sport’s most enviable contact books, one who had a ringside seat for the entire event.'

Speedreaders

'This is a big book which tells the story of a fairy tale season. A story which, now that Formula One is dangerously close to being a cartel (just ask the Andretti family) will never be repeated. Brawn’s truth reads like a Hollywood fiction in 2024. Maybe Brad Pitt could star?'