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★★★★☆ 4.24 • Goodreads

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  • Gritty Determination
  • Insider Paddock Tales
  • Triumph Over Tragedy
  • Prosthetic Innovation
  • High-Speed Recovery
  • Unvarnished Brutality
  • Obsessive Drive
  • Family Struggles

Loved Driven by Susie Wolff for its raw cockpit honesty and relentless speed? Keep that adrenaline surging with It Is What It Is by Billy Monger.

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Why It's Your Next Read

  • Unfiltered paddock truth—zero pity, pure grit
  • Technical racing insights from someone who lived it
  • Life-altering trauma turned competitive fuel & fire
  • Cutthroat team politics expose garage Darwinism

If Susie Wolff's unapologetic cockpit truths left you hungry for more unfiltered motorsport memoir, Billy Monger delivers paddock reality stripped to metal and bone. He writes with the same insider's eye for tire degradation and throttle modulation, but the stakes here are existential—life-altering trauma reframed as just another corner to apex through, no self-pity, no melodrama, only obsessive grit.

...paddock reality stripped to metal and bone.

Monger's voice carries Wolff's wit and pragmatism, treating barriers as chicanes rather than roadblocks. The physical toll is amplified, the family dynamics raw, the garage politics cutthroat—everything you craved in Driven, dialed higher.

If you chased Wolff's 300-mph daydreams, Monger's comeback will leave you breathless.

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What Readers Are Saying

"I loved this book...I laughed out loud, I cried and I read it in a day. The emotions were authentic, the family dynamics delightful, and I’m psyched to read the next in the series..." Karen Gledhill, Goodreads
"It’s fresh, bold, and wildly unique...the chemistry is intense, the characters are vibrant, and the plot keeps you locked in from start to finish. Mandela P. Corona is an author to watch, and I can’t wait to see what she writes next." Shelby Masse, Goodreads
"This book is filled with so much fun banter, laughter, spice, love and understanding... The way this book envelops you like these characters are people you actually know is uncanny." bookish feind, Goodreads

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