opened this app for the first time in four months… my most recent post aged very poorly

Yessssss

To be brutally honest, this book is boring and uninspiring, especially if you lived through the 2022 F1 season. The problem with writing a book primarily centered around events that have already happened that your primary audience is already aware of is that you have to provide a unique and new perspective on it. You'd think that wouldn't be difficult for someone with Steiner's level of knowledge and insider information but he almost completely fails to share any interesting insight about Haas' 2022 season. The moments where we learn new information that is actually worth learning are few and far between, and he fails to go into detail on anything worth going into detail on. There are multiple instances where Steiner makes a passing mention of something that would make a genuinely interesting topic for F1 fans only to quickly brush past it and pivot to something wholly uninspiring, creating an infuriatingly surface level account of the season, most of which is just a report of results we already know.

It was expected that a book clearly made to pander to an audience who doesn't find the "foking wankers" bit overdone and isn't overly concerned with actual insight would do that and only that, but it's disappointing all the same. Ultimately I am not the target audience and cannot fairly judge this book off of what it brings to me, someone who 1) reads a lot of books and 2) is pretty deeply involved in motorsport. That's clearly not who this book was written for. If you were somehow endeared to Steiner by his DTS performance and don't care about the intricacies and details of F1 and if you really like unfunny jokes that get repeated over and over again, I can see how this might be enjoyable, but if you're looking for anything outside of a basic account overshadowed by Steiner's over-commitment to the bit of his personality you're going to be sorely disappointed. Read from: Feb 06, 2025 - Feb 12, 2025

Well I finished it. Here’s the Goodreads review. I can’t believe he has another book that has come out since this one and I’m only a little bit tempted to see if it’s worse

One thing that makes me giggle is that he haaaates Ralph Schumacher and is constantly shit talking him while exclusively referring to him as “Mick’s uncle”

Steiner describes Ayao Komatsu as “a walking Valium tablet” just in case anyone was wondering what the former Haas TP had to say about the current Haas TP. Gee I wonder why everyone seems to feel more chill at Haas these days

Well why bother with an editor when you’re writing something that is only going to be read by people who really love you from your ten minutes of DTS screen time and probably don’t care about good writing or actual insight

“I'm trying to think of something to write that will make this part of the book feel a bit less predictable and boring.”

If this is a real thing you have to say then I think you need to start seriously questioning whether the book in question is worth writing

He makes the “as a prospective F1 team you have to prove you can add value to the sport” argument in reference to Andretti wanting to join and BOY it’s been a long time but that shit still pisses me off

He just described himself as “the GOAT” of talking???

The last week has mainly been about sponsorship for me, which I'll come on to in a second. Before that, I will tell you first what I like about the Monaco Grand Prix. OK, I'm glad we've got that out of the way. Let's get on to the sponsorship. I'm only kidding. Well, kind of. Monaco has some thinos oring for it in terms of what the fans

ok actually this is pretty funny too

It’s CONSTANT throughout the book and so annoying

Just read the best sentence of the book so far: “Other teams have the corporate gene and we have Gene Haas.”

I’m 15% of the way through and the way this is written is so jarring. He just interrupted his own account of finding out that Russia was invading Ukraine to give an explanation of what porpoising is

Fork found in kitchen I fear

At one point in the first chapter he, in the same paragraph, randomly switches topics to bring up AD21 which he talks about for over a page for no discernible reason AND says he wouldn’t hire Adrian Newey if he had the chance because he’s “too exciting”

You will never find an IndyCar driver that I don't think should skip Gateway to run Le Mans. Alex Palou? He can win the title without those 35 points. Colton Herta? He's better on road courses anyway. Scott McLaughlin? He deserves a shot! Sting Ray Robb? Sure why not maybe he's a silver in WEC.

we are off to a bad start I fear (I’m already sooooo tired of this gimmick)

Guenther Steiner’s “Surviving to Drive” on kindle

Finally got bored enough to crack this bad boy open, will come back with updates

or two of your favorite players

The frostbee trade is going to be my villain origin story

Oh good idea, thank you!

been trying to write a specific article for over a week now and I feel like I’ve totally forgotten how to write🫠

So many emotional men on my tv screen😁😁

Me? I won’t. I’m thinking about how we lost out on a colton herta LMP2 victory

Penske Perfect if you will

I’m never posting about him ever again

Sleep is calling to me but colton herta is on track

Real