Surviving to Drive Book Review

Surviving to Drive

By Guenther Steiner

Rating:

9/10

If you follow me on Instagram, you'll know I was absolutely gutted that Guenther Steiner was doing a book signing at Waterstone Piccadilly, London, less than 48 hours before I was due to be down that way. Queue me dumping my case at my hotel, getting the tube across London and running to the store the signing had been held, trying to get my hands on a left over signed copy. I was so determined to get this book I didn't even realise my dress had ridden up around my waist during my running around... Trauma! Luckily I had thick tights on since it was England in April, cold and absolutely chucking it down... 

Wardrobe malfunction dealt with, I carefully carried on my mission to get my hands on the book! And luckily I did rush around and expose myself to half of London because there was, how would Guenther say it? FOKING LOADS OF SIGNED COPIES! That's right, I exposed myself for no reason... Guenther, I will accept an apology in free tickets to a GP one day!

Anyway, getting on to my thoughts on the actual book, instead of me being a constant embarrassment...

I read all 280ish pages of this book in Guenther's voice and I loved every second of it! The way he writes some things as he would say them ('Fok' being the main one obviously) really put you in Guenther's mindset. The layout of the book is as a diary, which the idea of Guenther writing a diary makes me smile, like his therapist has given him homework. At first he's reluctant to do it but he ends up really embracing it. 

I think my one downside of the book was some of the mentions of Mick Schumacher. Obviously, I'm just a fan and I think Mick is the sweetest thing. I'm not involved in the HAAS team, I have never met any of these people, nor will I, so I don't know what really went down in that time and this is just one part to it so it's hard to know what happened really, being in my shoes. But it sucked to read about what may or may not have happened. Luckily this is not a huge part of the book because it's Guenther's diary and he's mainly writing Fok or Wanker...

My favourite part to read however was about the whole Mazapin thing, but let's not get into that for obvious reasons... (DM me on my socials if you really wanna know...)

To finish off, there was a couple of lovely tributes to HAAS team member Harvey Cook. Harvey unfortunately passed away during the writing of this book, aged only 31. If you read this book for only one reason, let it be for the lovely words said by Guenther in his memory.