Surviving to Drive: The No. 1 Sunday Times Bestseller

Product Information

In Drive to Survive – released coincidentally on the one-year anniversary of the invasion – Steiner describes the Mazepin situation with a forthrightness so telling in the circumstances. In Haas’ motorhome, he rages: “F****** hell, I don’t need any of this. No more Russians. I’m done with Russians until I go from this planet.”

Anyone who tunes into Season 5 expecting a totally transformed Tsunoda from last year is going to be disappointed. All this from a man who earlier that weekend had complained of a “pretty nasty” and “not fair” interview on German television in which his treatment of Schumacher was questioned. PlanetF1.com recommends If it’s tennis players, they don’t get anything from Russia to play tennis so they should be able to play as they’re professional sportsmen,” he begins. “But most of the athletes at the Olympics are semi-amateur and they’re also employed by the army or police. Those close to the regime in that way shouldn’t participate. Written in Steiner’s voice the stylized ‘fok’ and ‘jeezos’ can become a little grating through the course of the year, but conversely it does add to the individualistic aura of the book and remind you this is Steiner and no one else. Some of the most interesting anecdotes relate to Niki Lauda, the three-time F1 world champion who died in 2019. Lauda first brought Steiner into F1, from rallying, in 2001, helping him to run the Jaguar team. Although the project would prove unsuccessful and be sold by Ford to Red Bull in 2004, it gave Steiner experience at F1’s top table and with Lauda’s forthright, honest approach.Things always seem to be shit for poor Guenther and constantly threaten to get worse. “It never rains, it pours on me,” he moans at one point in the series, head in hands. The third season’s standout episode recounts an incident in which a Haas car, driven by Romain Grosjean, slams into a wall and explodes into a giant fireball during an active race. Grosjean narrowly survived the disaster, suffering burn wounds on his hands in the process. The accident happened during an already precarious moment for Haas, when Steiner was in the midst of determining whether to reboot the team with new talent. He decided to let go of both his drivers, including Grosjean. (Nowadays, the Swiss French Grosjean is racing in the IndyCar Series and seems to be having a great time touring the United States.) In his book ‘Surviving to Drive’, Steiner will take readers behind the scenes of Haas’ 2022 F1 season, with the Austrian ‘taking fans on the thrilling rollercoaster of life at the heart of high-stakes motor racing’. We look like a bunch of legends‘! Günther Steiner, teambaas van het Haas F1 team, staat na de Netflix-serie Drive to Survive bekend om zijn oneliners. Maar in zijn boek Surviving to drive biedt hij een inkijkje in het 2022 seizoen, en zijn visie op de races.

In a sport of big egos and measured public appearances, Guenther is a complete breath of fresh air,” said Henry Vines, Editorial Director at Transworld. Putting such a high price on his head may have been Daniel’s way of telling Haas he had no interest in joining them, yet there remained a sense that money made his world go round.

Retailers:

Later in the same episode, Szafnauer joins a group of Alpine mechanics – reflecting on Esteban Ocon’s 2021 Hungarian Grand Prix victory – in the Budapest pitlane ahead of the 2022 race.