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The Marshall Pruett Podcast

MP 868: Guenther Steiner, My Racing Life and Career

The Marshall Pruett Podcast

Marshall Pruett

Leisure, Sports, Automotive

4.6594 Ratings

🗓️ 30 June 2020

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Haas Formula 1 team principal Guenther Steiner visits The Marshall Pruett Podcast for a brisk episode of My Racing Life and Career. The entertaining Italian shares stories of his introduction to the sport through rallying and transition to Formula 1, then dives into a number of topics, including his emotional management style depicted in Netflix's Drive To Survive, unique approach to handling F1 drivers, and a supreme skill at punctuating conversations with curse words. Subscribe: https://marshallpruettpodcast.com/subscribe Join our Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/MarshallPruettPodcast

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0:00.0

today in the Marshall Proop podcast.

0:02.6

We have a somewhat short episode of my racing life and career with Haas Formula One team principal, Gunther Steiner.

0:11.2

Went for a little over half an hour, trimmed some of the items here for the sake of brevity.

0:17.6

And I'll tell you what, if you happen to have watched Netflix's Formula One Drive to Survive,

0:26.0

well, you know plenty about Gunther.

0:28.3

And if you've followed his career for a little while as I have,

0:32.4

probably somewhere around the year 2000 is when he came on my radar with the Jaguar Formula One team.

0:38.3

You'll know that he has done a variety of very interesting things in this sport.

0:43.3

It's in the conversation here, open with his racing origins.

0:48.3

Really fascinating as well to learn about rallying.

0:52.3

Group B being the cornerstone of what he did as a mechanic.

0:56.1

And then moving on up, worked with a lot of legendary drivers there, got to Formula One at

1:01.4

the turn of the century.

1:03.5

Jaguar team definitely known for being a hard environment to work within.

1:09.4

We get into some other topics as well.

1:12.0

We know that the Haas F1 program has certainly dealt with some dramas.

1:16.4

Seemed to be on a faster and better path in recent, recent times.

1:22.3

Gunther's emotions and how that team is managed with a lot of high emotions comes up in conversation.

1:29.9

Also the way that they deal with their drivers.

1:33.0

It's a very different approach than you find with many teams.

1:37.0

Start to close here with a conversation from a few years back about how Santino Faroochi,

1:42.5

American driver from Connecticut, was bounced out of Europe

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