LONGLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2018
This is my life, not the stuff you´ve seen, but the things you haven´t. This is my childhood growing up in the West Country, my struggles, my doubts and my hopes.
It´s the people I´ve met in my seventeen years in Formula One, many of whom I´ve loved, some of whom I definitely haven´t. It´s the laughs I´ve shared, the battles I´ve fought, some on the track with rivals and friends like Fernando Alonso, Lewis Hamilton and Sebastian Vettel.
It´s the pressure I struggled with as I closed in on my World Championship in 2009, it´s the calm I felt every time I settled into the cockpit. It´s my dad - the many times he saved me, the one moment he doubted me, the hole in my life he left me. It´s everything in one go, the good days as well as the bad. A life lived not just as a racing driver but, ultimately, as a human being.