Guenther Steiner: No f**k's given, F1's most outspoken team boss (E189)
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🗓️ 24 April 2023
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Guenther Steiner is a renowned motorsport engineer and team manager, best known for his current position as the Haas Formula One Team Principal. With over 30 years working in motorsport, Guenther is highly admired throughout the community and has become a leading figure in popular Netflix series, ‘Drive to Survive’.
In this episode, he describes how he found his way to a career in racing, his approach to management and how he nurtures his relationships with drivers and team mates to help push the team forward. In addition to this, Guenther shares how it feels to watch one of his team suffer from a serious crash, and the burden of hoping to see them emerge from the wreckage.
You can read more of Guenther's story in his new book. More information is available at https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/451686/surviving-to-drive-by-steiner-guenther/9781787636279
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| 0:28.5 | So right now allow myself and Professor Damien Hughes to unlock another fascinating mind so that they can be your teacher. |
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| 0:47.0 | podcast. |
| 0:48.0 | If they've got an opinion, it's fine, but does it anything to me? No because it isn't a parody and obviously it is |
| 0:54.6 | maybe hyped up a little bit by writing a book by by Netflix that they get you in these situations |
| 0:59.6 | because it has become a little bit I would almost say a trademark but you know I'm not in control of it |
| 1:06.3 | So I'm not telling them to use it |
| 1:09.5 | Drivers in a team if you have got two drivers. There doesn't need to be the big friendship |
| 1:14.4 | that they don't need to be big mates. I think that is actually on the |
| 1:17.7 | racetrack, counterproductive, but there needs to be respect, you know, for the job |
| 1:21.6 | the other one is doing. |
| 1:23.0 | I know, if he's not out in the next 20 to 30 seconds, he's not coming out. |
| 1:27.0 | There's no chance that he comes out, you know that. |
| 1:29.0 | When I saw him coming out, he can have a broken leg, a hand I mean he's okay you know that the only |
| 1:34.8 | think he needs to survive here because in my position you know if this car is on fire |
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