FINISHING STRAIGHTESSENTIALS
LEWIS HAMILTON MERCEDES 2015
BRAKE DISCTABLE
Price£995
mementoexclusives.comHOW TO BE ANF1 DRIVER
By Jenson Button
Price£20
bonnierbooks.co.uk112 F1 RACING JANUARY 2020Enhance the F1experience with
the latest must-have productsF1 UPGRADES
If you wantto celebrateLewis
Hamilton’s sixth world title with a
glass of champagne, then one place
to rest your glass could be on a
genuine carbon brake disc from his
2015 Mercedes F1 car.
Limitedto just 44 pieces (to
coincide with Hamilton’s race
number), each brake disc is
surroundedby solid oak.Polished,
refined with Danish oil and inserted
with an official Mercedes AMG
Petronas Motorsport plaque, the
top of the table isfi tted with
toughened glass.
As part of the W06 that Hamilton
pilotedto world title glory in 2015,
each brake disc weighs justover
1kg (in sharp contrastto the average15kg of a standard sportscar cast
iron brake disc).
The table measures 59cm in
height and 33cm in diameter and
will be delivered complete with the
team’s certificate of authenticity.AUTOSPORT INTERNATIONAL SHOW
9-12 January, 2020, NEC, Birmingham
PriceFrom £34 (in advance) and £37
autosportinternational.comThe unofficial start of the
motorsport season takes place
in January as theAutosport
International Showkicks offanother
year. Held at theNEC, Birmingham
since 1991,the show will be
celebrating its 30th anniversary from
9-12 January2020, although thefi rst
two days are strictly trade only.
The showcovers all areas of
motorsport, both professionaland
grass roots, from kartingright upto Formula 1.Featuring thevery
latest in motorsport, automotiveand
performance engineeringtechnology,
it alsohas cars, stars andexhibitors
from every level of motor racing.
Whether it’sthe chanceto look
at the huge number of machines on
display, get behind the wheel in the
UK’s largest Esports fan village, orto
enjoy thePerformance &Tuning Car
Show,Autosport International has
somethingfor everyone.Jenson Button’s latest book has
a differenttone than his 2017
autobiographyLife to theLimit. Rather
than a chronological replay of his
racing career, JB gives usmore of an
insight into what makes him – anda
Formula 1 driver –tick, and picks out
examples of where things went right...
and wrong.
He writes honestly about various
aspects of his racing career, such
as his ‘playboy’antics when hefi rst
appeared in F1, confrontations with
SebastianVettel, and how hard it wasto lose his father John Button – aka
‘Papa Smurf’ – from his life. He isn’t
afraidto give an honest appraisal of
his own driving – and that of others
he encounteredduring his F1 career.
But more than that, heexplains
every aspect of the job required
to be a grand prix winner, from the
engineering debriefsto
the PR appearances.
This isa light-heartedand
ente rtaining read, written in a style
where youcan imagine Jensontelling
you these anecdotesdownthe pub.
One suchexample, he
talks about his ability
behind the wheel and
says: “My driving style
is, in a word, smooth.
Smooth as apint of
Guinness.”
He also recalls an
amusing story of avery
long drinking session
after winning Monacoin
2009.“You get to go to a
special after-party,
a blacktie do attended
by the royal family,”
writes Button.“Hang on
a minute, I’m abloke from
Somerset and I’vejust
won the Monaco Grand
Prix and now I’m partying
with Prince Albert. And
the whole time I was half-
expectingmy mumto
shake me awake, saying,
‘Jenson, Jenson, you’re
late fo r school...’”