Surviving to Drive: The No. 1 Sunday Times Bestseller

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Steiner’s popularity skyrocketed after Formula 1’s Drive to Survive docuseries on Netflix, which Steiner says he has still never watched. The dairy style writing makes it so that it doesn’t feel like a biography but rather feels like an inside view of a team principals mind. In 2014, Guenther persuaded Gene Haas, owner of Haas Automation and NASCAR championship winning team Stewart-Haas Racing, to enter Formula 1. It is hard to envisage Steiner slotting in at any other squad (despite having worked at other F1 teams in the past!

Guenther Steiner has been the unlikely breakout star of the show and this book aims to cement his celebrity via a diary-style romp through the 2022 season.Maar in zijn boek Surviving to drive biedt hij een inkijkje in het 2022 seizoen, en zijn visie op de races. Earlier this year Steiner, a 58-year-old Italian who sounds as if he should be German, released a funny and revealing book, Surviving to Drive, which is a diary of last season. Steiner is niet bang om zijn mening te geven, al blijven de meeste andere F1 coureurs buiten beschouwing. Fans of the series will love this canter through an eventful season which brings them closer to the characters they see on TV. Steiner also suggests Magnussen has become slightly complacent at stages and reckons the recruitment of Hulkenberg will make him up his game.

Guenther has a hilarious sense of humour, and I found myself laughing throughout 😆 It's such an easy read and gives such an insight into a year in the life of f1 drivers and team principals. Through this unique lens, Guenther takes us on the thrilling rollercoaster of life at the heart of high stakes motor racing. I spoke with Kevin because I wanted to make sure that there was no animosity any more between them and he said: ‘I’m very happy having Nico as a teammate because he’s a very good driver. We talk in Monaco and I wonder if Steiner is hounded for selfies even here, amid the rich and famous.And the publishers lucked into a 2022 campaign that had “more drama in it than a thousand episodes of a foking Mexican soap opera” for Haas, as Steiner pens it. The day I feel the backpack is getting too big or the donkey is getting too old and cannot carry it any more, the donkey will be stopping,” Guenther Steiner says with typical amusement as he reflects on the stress bearing down on him as one of the most famous faces in Formula One and as the principal of the Haas F1 team. Have people forgotten the nous and vast experience in motorsport which helped him set up Haas as a pioneering US team and how he has managed to keep them racing? A lot of sponsors say I actually do not want to be associated with the winner because then I’m always second," he observed. He is regularly self-deprecating, describing himself as “an Italian wanker with a big nose, a weird accent and a German name” and accepts that his main skill is his ability to talk.