As underdog stories go, the Brawn F1 team’s unlikely triumph in 2009 has it all. From down and out, the team bought for £1 became title favourites overnight, were hunted by their rivals but held out for a last-gasp dip over the finishing line. They were an anomaly and their feat, one surely all but unrepeatable, is captured in an aptly titled new four-part Disney series – Brawn: The Impossible F1 Story.
Formula One is enjoying a boom thanks in part to the popular Netflix series Drive to Survive but at the same time undergoing a period of domination by Red Bull and Max Verstappen. It follows from a similar spell of authority by Mercedes, the team that bought out Brawn at the end of 2009.
