Guenther Steiner

People talk about football managers being under pressure. Trust me, that's nothing. Pressure is watching one of your drivers hit a barrier at 190mph and exploding before your eyes...'

Guenther Steiner is one of motor racing's biggest and most celebrated characters, known to millions for his show-stealing appearances on Netflix's hugely popular fly on the wall series, Drive to Survive.

In Surviving to Drive, the Haas team principal takes readers inside his Formula 1 team for the entirety of the 2022 season, giving an unobstructed view of what really takes place behind the scenes. Through this unique lens, Guenther takes us on the thrilling rollercoaster of life at the heart of high stakes motor racing. Packed full of twists and turns, from hiring and firing drivers, balancing books, pre-season preparations, the design, launch and testing of a car - and of course, the race calendar itself - this is the first time that an F1 team has allowed an acting team principal to tell the full story of a whole season.

Uncompromising and searingly honest, told in Steiner's inimitable style, this is a fascinating and hugely entertaining account of the realities of running a Formula 1 team.

A Year Inside Formula 1

Surviving to Drive

Emma Hak-Kovacs

With regards to the communication within Haas, there are three steps: we discuss it, we decide that I am right, and then we carry on.

Then again, could you imagine me walking on to the balcony in St Peter’s Square in Rome and delivering the Urbi et Orbi. ‘OK, I’m finished now. Get to foking work!’ Pope Guenther the first would be Pope Guenther the last.

How the world managed without me before I was born, I don’t fucking understand.

Anyway, I’m going to bang my head against a wall. Fingers crossed for tomorrow.

I’m starting to sound like a broken record. What can I do, though? Mick finished P14, Kevin didn’t finish, and Guenther is now banging his head against a wall.

If this book ends on this page it’s because I died during the night. I just thought I’d warn you.

Today has been one of the most difficult days I have had in over a decade. I hope you feel sorry for me when I tell you. 

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