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Brawn: The Impossible Formula 1 Story (2023) is a four-part racing documentary you can watch online on iFILM, and its narrator is a surprise — Keanu Reeves, a lifelong motorsport fan, walks you through the tale of a team that should never have made it to the grid.
Late 2008: Honda pulls the plug on its racing operation and walks away. Ross Brawn buys the wreckage of the outfit for a single pound, slaps his own name on it, and spends the winter scrambling to put a car on the track with almost no cash and no engine deal. Then the 2009 season starts, and this patched-together squad keeps winning. Jenson Button takes the drivers' title; Rubens Barrichello backs him up. All four episodes lean on their first-hand accounts, with Lewis Hamilton, Christian Horner and Brawn himself filling in the picture.
What grips you isn't really the racing — it's the survival math of making payroll with no sponsors and weeks until lights-out. A great pick if you love against-all-odds team stories and don't need to know a diffuser from a rear wing. Stream every episode of Brawn: The Impossible Formula 1 Story online on iFILM.
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