While Webber and Neal ultimately sorted the complications of their personal relationship out, the book does weave a tale of broken relationships between Webber and the teams he drove for. The book also details the difficulties the pair faced when their relationship went from professional to romantic, and how Webber’s parents in particular weren’t keen on their son dating a divorcee, 13 years his senior and with a young son. The hardships for Webber and Neal weren’t just being felt on the track or in boardrooms looking for sponsorship money, either. There were plenty of 11th-hour rescues as well, points where Webber had essentially given up and was packing his bags ready to return to Australia. From a tiny shoe box apartment in the UK, he and Neal traipsed backwards and forwards from Europe to Australia looking for money. In the book, he describes just how difficult it was. He had some family money, but nothing like the budget needed to go from national Formula Ford in Australia all the way to Formula 1.

It’s no secret that Webber made it to F1 the hard way. That means there is some interesting insight into the battle that he, his family, and his advisor/partner Ann Neal faced to get a kid from the outskirts of Canberra into a Formula 1 seat. Save for prologue offering a teaser into the Multi-21 debacle, the book follows a very chronological form. How the f#*k do you get from Queanbeyan to F1? The decision-makers were on Team Seb, he says, and it all came to a head in Malaysia in 2013. He goes into great detail to explain how he slowly, admittedly too slowly, realised that during the RBR days, ‘Team Webber’ as he regularly calls it didn’t have the right people on board. Unsurprisingly, Webber doesn’t hold back in his book.

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