The head of the Haas team has benefited greatly from the popularity of Drive to Survive, becoming a cult hero for his profanity-filled antics and unapologetic demeanor.
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Guenther Steiner, who stars in the popular Netflix series Drive to Survive, has admitted that he has never actually watched it as per gpfans.com. The head of the Haas team has benefited greatly from the popularity of Drive to Survive, becoming a cult hero for his profanity-filled antics and unapologetic demeanor. Even though the Italian actor has received a lot of attention as a result of the show’s unprecedented success, Steiner is clear that his role is still that of a team leader and not the star of a Netflix production.
“Maybe I’ll watch it once when I’m not working any more,” Steiner said. “I don’t want to watch myself because if you watch yourself you get critical about your actions, self-conscious, and then you try to do better.”
“But I’m not an actor. My job is being a team principal, so that’s what I need to do. If you watch it you get influenced. When you see a camera, you act differently. Then it gets weird. And I don’t want to get weird. I don’t want to be afraid of a camera.”
According to team manager Frederic Vasseur, Ferrari has petitioned the FIA, the organisation that oversees Formula One, in an effort to obtain a right of review regarding the penalty imposed on Carlos Sainz during the Australian Grand Prix. During a dramatic late restart at Albert Park, Sainz tipped Fernando Alonso’s Aston Martin into a spin. Logan Sargeant also crashed into Nyck de Vries’ back, and Pierre Gasly and Esteban Ocon’s Alpines clashed.
The announcement of a five-second time penalty for Sainz came through as the order was reset to the previous restart ahead of a final lap to the checkered flag behind the Safety Car, causing the Spaniard to broadcast a string of angry messages. Sainz eventually crossed the finish line in fourth place, but the penalty he received caused him to lose points and fall all the way to 12th, leaving him “too angry to talk” in the moments following the race (as you can see in the clip above).
“We did a petition for a review of the case – we sent it to the FIA,” Vasseur confirmed on Thursday. “As we are discussing with the FIA… I don’t want to discuss any details of this discussion. The only thing is [the] Gasly/Ocon [collision], for sure we had also Sargeant/De Vries [colliding] into Turn 1, and the reaction of the stewards was not the same.”
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“The process is that first they will have a look on our petition to see if they can re-open the case, then we’ll have a second hearing a bit later with the same stewards for the next meeting, about the decision itself. What we can expect is at least to have an open discussion with them, also for the good of the sport to avoid to have these kind of decisions when you have three cases on the same corner and not the same decision.”
As per Article 14 of the FIA’s International Sporting Code, competitors can request a right of review up to 14 days after a ruling from the stewards if “a significant and relevant new element is discovered which was unavailable to the parties seeking the review at the time of the decision concerned”.
