Drive to Survive legend announces new major project after F1 sacking

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Drive to Survive legend announces new major project after F1 sacking

Steiner was replaced by Ayao Komatsu as Haas team principal in January

By Cal Gaunt.

Wednesday 24 January 2024 17:57

Fresh off being released by Haas earlier this month, Guenther Steiner will release a second book about Formula 1.

His first book sold over 150,000 copies and was released in several different languages, and that success appears to have prompted the former Haas boss to take a second bite at the cherry.

Steiner and ghostwriter James Hogg have now begun their second collaboration, potentially with a new perspective following Steiner's recent departure from the team.

Guenther Steiner is writing his second F1 book after being sacked by Haas

Steiner was replaced by Ayao Komatsu as Haas team principal

Steiner: The story has changed

“We are working on the second book at the moment,” Steiner told Motorsport.com. “That was planned already before. Now, obviously, the story maybe changes a little bit!

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"It was a completely new experience. And I learned a lot about how some industries work, how things are done because I was never exposed to this before.

“And I actually enjoyed working with the writer, he is a cool dude, we had good fun. And he had good fun as well.

Steiner could reveal all about what went on behind the scenes at Haas as he was ousted from his position

Steiner denies distractions

Steiner refuted suggestions that his involvement in penning the book, Surviving to Drive, or his appearances on the popular Netflix series, Drive to Survive, diverted his attention from his responsibilities with the Haas F1 team.

"I think people are overrating that, how much distraction that is,” he said. “Because it isn't actually a lot of distraction from the daily job.

“Obviously on the race weekends, you need to work more. But for example, I didn't have 20 [sponsor] appearances a weekend, I had maybe three maximum.

“It's not like that is distracting, even writing the book. Obviously, a ghostwriter does it for you.

“Now I've got more time, but even now, we do two sessions a week of half an hour. We do one on Tuesday and one on Friday. That's all I do, he does the rest.

“You speak with him, but it's not like I spent days speaking with him. I know that some people have spent days speaking with these people, but I didn't.

“I don't think that is a big factor. I think that there were more benefits for the team than anything else about this because they got a lot of sponsors."

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