Brawn: The Impossible Formula 1 Story looks epic
It's almost 15 years since Brawn GP did the impossible - time to have Keanu Reeves retell it...
You may have already heard about Brawn: the Impossible Formula 1 story. Such is the might of Disney, the A-list appeal of Keanu Reeves and the couldn’t-make-it-up drama of the 2009 season that the documentary was hardly going to go under the radar.
Now the official trailer is out, ahead of the series streaming in a couple of weeks; for anyone not already excited about a TV extravaganza dedicated to Brawn GP, this ought to do it. With the past decade and a half effectively dominated by Red Bull and Mercedes-Benz, the documentary will serve as a reminder that the sport can still shock. Maybe there won’t be a year like 2009 again, but with F1's popularity on the rise, what a time to revisit it. What was achieved back then seemed unbelievable at the time, that transformation from sub-par Honda F1 in 2008 to championship-winning Brawn GP in 2009 - nowadays it feels like a motorsport fairytale. Perfect for Disney, then.
Certainly, the documentary doesn't want for big names. In addition to Ross Brawn, Rubens Barrichello and Jenson Button, the film features input from Bernie Ecclestone, Christian Horner and even Luca di Montezemolo, who still seems a little aggrieved about how the season panned out. Or perhaps that’s just a bit of clever editing to draw in additional eyeballs - already the trailer has had almost 400,000 views in a day. Whatever the case, The Impossible Formula 1 Story is surely going to be worth a watch; who wouldn’t want to know more about that crazy Brawn GP season? It streams on Hulu in the US or Disney+ here from November 15th, across four parts. The perfect real-life drama, surely, for these cold, dark November nights...
2009 was not be of my favourite ever F1 seasons. Genuinely never knew what was going to happen, and it's almost as remarkable as an Arrows winning a race, almost.
(2009, and 2011 best seasons this century for me)
Look what happened!
It was a great story at the time, and wonderful that Jenson got his championship.
Does anyone else remember Sniff Petrol making fun of Brawn's lack of advertising and seeming lack of hope pre-season, and then publicly eating their words once the races began?
To whit:
THOSE BRAWN GP SPONSORS IN DETAIL:
Followed by
Last month’s Sniff Petrol, published before the start of the new Formula 1 season, contained an annotated photograph mocking the Brawn F1 team for their lack of sponsors and suggesting that their chances of success were slim. Sniff Petrol is delighted to accept that this was an utterly s
t-poor piece of analysis and that Brawn are thus far completely ace. We have therefore amended the annotated picture and hope that this will stop all the people who have been e-mailing in with messages that read along the lines of ‘Huh huh huh! You must feel really stupid now!’. Yes. Yes we do. Go Jenson.However, I think in some ways 'Impossible' is a little much. The car was designed by a team with a huge Honda budget, led by multiple championship-winner Ross Brawn. He'd arrived, taken one look at the '08 car and said lets not spend a penny on that PoS, put all our effort into next year. The legality of the double diffuser was open to interpretation, and it suited the powers that be to interpret it as legal for political reasons. And Jenson was always a very very good driver, from his debut to his Hamilton-matching years subsequently at McLaren. So it was unexpected and astonishing, but far from inexplicable or impossible.
Anyway a great story and a great topic to make a film about.
If you nail it then you are pretty much at the top of the times for the foreseeable. The only people that came out sour was Honda for pulling the plug.
Mercedes recent dominance has got nothing to do with them being the "best". They made the engine right first and the rest couldn't play catch up because their hands were tied together because testing is pretty much banned.
I much preferred the 80's and 90's. Id rather have 2-3 teams competing for the top with a load of mid runners than have 1 team who gets the rules right then the rest fighting for 2-10th.
As the year progressed coral kept emailing me offers to cash out. I held my nerve. I won £2500 which paid for a holiday of a lifetime in New Zealand. Only bet i had ever placed with a bookmaker.
Reeves is great.......in films. Now all the "stars" are hustling into F1
The two domestic motor racing series are very national and pretty crap. Soluion, buy F1 and make it Murican. Tiresome.
If you nail it then you are pretty much at the top of the times for the foreseeable. The only people that came out sour was Honda for pulling the plug.
Mercedes recent dominance has got nothing to do with them being the "best". They made the engine right first and the rest couldn't play catch up because their hands were tied together because testing is pretty much banned.
I much preferred the 80's and 90's. Id rather have 2-3 teams competing for the top with a load of mid runners than have 1 team who gets the rules right then the rest fighting for 2-10th.
Reeves is great.......in films. Now all the "stars" are hustling into F1
The two domestic motor racing series are very national and pretty crap. Soluion, buy F1 and make it Murican. Tiresome.
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