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I'm spending an excruciating week on the beach in Aruba and read Guenther's new book. I really enjoyed it. If you're a Guenther fan, you'll like the book.
The book covers the Haas 2022 season in detail and all of the big stories associated with the team and F1. He must have kept a daily diary to recall everything the way it is detailed in the book.
Topics include how FP/Q/GP went for each weekend, the Ukraine/Mazespin stories, Mick's future, Haas sponsorship etc etc etc.
He talks about his origins in motorsport including rally and his entry into F1 with Lauda/Jaguar. This dude has done a lot of different things in the sport.
I'm not much of a book reviewer so I'll stop here. This is an easy read and I had fun with it. I forgot to mention that it is funny AF in places and the book is packed with "fok" bombs as you would expect.
Guenther is still my #1 guy in F1 that I would like to have beers with.
Been looking for this book but Amazon has it being released in August???
I got it on Kindle last week and I see paperback and hardcover available currently also. I have a long CDG PHL flight tomorrow; should be able to knock it off in that time. Looking forward to it as a fan. I'll leave a mini-review FWIW in the next few days.
Sorry, you are correct. Kindle only until 8/1. The tabs for paperback and hardcover both say "Available." You don't get the pre-order notification until you click 'Buy'. Blame Jeff Bezos, not me!
Read it in one fell swoop on the plane yesterday. Very entertaining, easy read. Some nice insights into the F1 dynamic and a lot of fun anecdotes of his history in the sport. Pretty frank in his assessment of his current drivers. Good stuff whether you are a casual F1 fan or serious student of the sport. You'll get 6 hours of entertainment for the price of one session's worth of gas (or one lap for you guys running 110).
Those of you who read the book, do you feel that Steiner would be hired on with another team if Gene sold HAAS F1? He comes off as a loose cannon on TV, but maybe that's just a persona. It's difficult to figure out if he is competent or not or he's just working with what he has given the budget and need to bring on pay drivers.
Those of you who read the book, do you feel that Steiner would be hired on with another team if Gene sold HAAS F1? He comes off as a loose cannon on TV, but maybe that's just a persona. It's difficult to figure out if he is competent or not or he's just working with what he has given the budget and need to bring on pay drivers.
Hard to say if Haas sold the team as there's a tendency to hit the nuke button in such situations. He has been in the sport for about 20 years. While he has a unique style, I personally think he's a great principal. There's no doubt to me that he is super bright,...but I'm guessing all the principals are. He is of course also very popular with fans and the way the sport is these days, I think this is a big factor!
Those of you who read the book, do you feel that Steiner would be hired on with another team if Gene sold HAAS F1? He comes off as a loose cannon on TV, but maybe that's just a persona. It's difficult to figure out if he is competent or not or he's just working with what he has given the budget and need to bring on pay drivers.
He's clearly bright and competent and not a loose cannon. DTS has captured some of his zingers and that has propelled him to unexpected and not really desired fame. The day to day Guenther seems to be a bright guy with a real passion and belief in his team and concern for his employees. It would be entirely situational as to whether a new owner would keep him on if Haas sold, but competence would not be the issue.
Weird - I now see that also - I bought it about 10 days ago for Kindle and it a was routine transaction. I'm not sure what's up. Wondering if there's new material being added or if it's being edited - he was pretty frank about some things.
I'm spending an excruciating week on the beach in Aruba and read Guenther's new book. I really enjoyed it. If you're a Guenther fan, you'll like the book.
The book covers the Haas 2022 season in detail and all of the big stories associated with the team and F1. He must have kept a daily diary to recall everything the way it is detailed in the book.
Topics include how FP/Q/GP went for each weekend, the Ukraine/Mazespin stories, Mick's future, Haas sponsorship etc etc etc.
He talks about his origins in motorsport including rally and his entry into F1 with Lauda/Jaguar. This dude has done a lot of different things in the sport.
I'm not much of a book reviewer so I'll stop here. This is an easy read and I had fun with it. I forgot to mention that it is funny AF in places and the book is packed with "fok" bombs as you would expect.
Guenther is still my #1 guy in F1 that I would like to have beers with.
Now back to the beach,...
it’s not bad. It gets a little tedious at times. He is pretty entertaining.
04-24-2023, 03:04 PM
"Surviving to Drive" by Guenther Steiner
