Guenther Steiner tells Chris Evans about taking readers inside his Formula 1 team with his new book, Surviving to Drive.
Legendary Haas F1 team principal Guenther Steiner joined the Chris Evans Breakfast Show with cinch to talk about his first book.
12:07 Thu, 20 Apr 2023.
Virgin Radio UK

Despite finding notoriety amongst racing fans for his appearances in the Netflix documentary Drive To Survive, Geunther admitted: “I didn't see any of the series. I never saw an episode.” Admitting that he didn't know how popular the series had become, the F1 star said that it was on a flight to Australia that he “realised that it had picked up”

Because: “People on the aeroplane said, ‘I just watched the show and I cannot believe that you're real’, ‘Yeah, I'm real. I'm on the aeroplane here!’ It was really funny for me.” On speaking his mind, Geunther told Chris: “Mr. Haas, he's a very outspoken man. And as long as you don't offend people, I wouldn't say you're free to say what you want to say, but he gives a lot of freedom.

“Obviously, you shouldn't offend people. But Formula 1 got very sterile, maybe 20 years ago, everything seemed too controlled, too vetted, every word needs to be controlled by seven people. I think with Mr. Haas, that doesn't happen. Sometimes he asks me, ‘Did you really need to say that?’, but that's the only comment he makes. He's not telling me what to say and what not to say.”

“You're real”;

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Book review: Gunther Steiner's Surviving to Drive
13:09 Thu, 20 Apr 2023.
By: Stefan Mackley
Motorsport.com

Having made himself a household name in Drive to Survive, Haas F1 team principal Gunther Steiner is now offering another way to get to know him better. We take a look at his new book, which takes that Netflix series title and flips it on its head

It's fair to say that a star was born when Gunther Steiner uttered words to that effect on an early season of Drive to Survive. Just as much as the Netflix documentary has propelled Formula 1 into the limelight and helped it amass a new following, so too it has done the same for the Haas F1 team principal. T-shirts emblazoned with his face and catchphrases have cropped up across the globe on F1's travels, and the Italian is almost as much of a celebrity as some of the drivers.

It was perhaps inevitable, then, that he published a book, which is aptly titled Surviving to Drive: A year inside Formula 1. Firstly, and very unsurprisingly, reader discretion is advised since there are so many expletives – a Steiner trademark, which, along with his sudden outbursts and forthright comments, have made him a star.

‘T-shirts emblazoned’;

https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/b...rive/10458645/


Surviving to Drive by Guenther Steiner review: Haas boss takes aim in F1 2022 diary
17 Apr 2023 9:00 AM
Sam Cooper
PlanetF1.com

The 280-page diary, which takes its name from the Netflix series that propelled Steiner from just another team principal to fan favourite megastar, is billed as an “unobstructed view of what really goes on behind the scenes” of a Formula 1 team – and it was quite the season for Steiner and his Haas outfit.

While a suite of new regulations, which Haas sacrificed their 2021 season to prepare for, should have been their big focus, instead Steiner and co. were forced to navigate the fallout of a European nation invading its closest neighbour.

Once Mazepin has been dealt with, the book moves on to what becomes the overriding theme: Mick Schumacher.

“Unobstructed view”;

https://www.planetf1.com/features/su...teiner-review/


“Surviving to Drive” by Guenther Steiner reviewed
F1 reviews
Posted on 16th April 2023, 10:0018th April 2023, 10:16
Written by Keith Collantine
RaceFans

Has Drive to Survive raised the profile of any individual in Formula 1 more than Haas team principal Guenther Steiner? Steiner’s plain-spoken, unfiltered and often profane reactions to his team’s fluctuating fortunes certainly helped him become the unlikeliest break-out star of the series. But how well does that style come across in book form?

In Surviving to Drive (you can see what they did there) Steiner retells the story of the 2022 season, adding in snippets of his backstory. This is all told in some approximation of his mannerisms familiar from a dozen DTS memes – in other words, heavy on the expletives, including over 300 uses of ‘fok’. That averages out at more than one per page.

The limitations of the style would be tolerable – just – if Surviving to Drive brought compelling new insights into the goings-on at Haas last year. But it adds little to what was reported over the course of 2022 and too often lapses into bland explanations of aspects of the season unrelated to the team.

‘Reviewed’;

https://www.racefans.net/2023/04/16/...iner-reviewed/


Extent Schumacher cost Haas in 2022 crashes revealed in new book
10 April 3:10PM
Author Rory Mitchell
RacingNews365

Mick Schumacher lost his seat at Haas in 2022 to Nico Hulkenberg, after a string of crashes cost the team a lot of money at the start of the season.

Guenther Steiner claims Mick Schumacher cost Haas $2 million in crash damage during the 2022 Formula 1 season.

In an extract of his new book Surviving to Drive the Haas Team Principal makes an honest assessment of some of the drivers, including Schumacher who he says cost the team $700,000 during his in-lap crash at last years Japanese Grand Prix.

‘$2 million’;

https://racingnews365.com/extent-sch...ed-in-new-book


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