Speed merchants

Keanu Reeves and Jenson Button tell Formula One's most incredible story

-  RICHARD MCCLURE, NATASHA HOLT

Speed actor Keanu Reeves gets in gear this week as he joins former Formula One world champion Jenson Button to recall the British driver's remarkable 2009 title-winning season with Brawn GP.

After buying the defunct Honda F1 outfit for just £1, boss Ross Brawn recruited Button as his lead driver, and the small, understaffed and underfinanced team made sporting history by winning the world championship against all the odds in the team's only season before it was sold to Mercedes. Ahead of the launch of Disney+'s four-part docuseries, we asked Button, 43, about his miraculous season...

Did making this series bring back some incredible memories?