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morgan :) @morganholiday.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

opened this app for the first time in four months… my most recent post aged very poorly

morgan :) @morganholiday.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Well I finished it. Here’s the Goodreads review. I can’t believe he has another book that has come out since this one and I’m only a little bit tempted to see if it’s worse

To be brutally honest, this book is boring and uninspiring, especially if you lived through the 2022 F1 season.
The problem with writing a book primarily centered around events that have already happened that your primary audience is already aware of is that you have to provide a unique and new perspective on it. You'd think that wouldn't be difficult for someone with Steiner's level of knowledge and insider information but he almost completely fails to share any interesting insight about Haas' 2022 season.
The moments where we learn new information that is actually worth learning are few and far between, and he fails to go into detail on anything worth going into detail on.
There are multiple instances where Steiner makes a passing mention of something that would make a genuinely interesting topic for F1 fans only to quickly brush past it and pivot to something wholly uninspiring, creating an infuriatingly surface level account of the season, most of which is just a report of results we already know.

It was expected that a book clearly made to pander to an audience who doesn't find the "foking wankers" bit overdone and isn't overly concerned with actual insight would do that and only that, but it's disappointing all the same.
Ultimately I am not the target audience and cannot fairly judge this book off of what it brings to me, someone who 1) reads a lot of books and 2) is pretty deeply involved in motorsport. That's clearly not who this book was written
for.
If you were somehow endeared to Steiner by his DTS performance and don't care about the intricacies and details of F1 and if you really like unfunny jokes that get repeated over and over again, I can see how this might be enjoyable, but if you're looking for anything outside of a basic account overshadowed by Steiner's over-commitment to the bit of his personality you're going to be sorely disappointed.
Read from: Feb 06, 2025 - Feb 12, 2025

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morgan :) @morganholiday.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

One thing that makes me giggle is that he haaaates Ralph Schumacher and is constantly shit talking him while exclusively referring to him as “Mick’s uncle”

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morgan :) @morganholiday.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Steiner describes Ayao Komatsu as “a walking Valium tablet” just in case anyone was wondering what the former Haas TP had to say about the current Haas TP. Gee I wonder why everyone seems to feel more chill at Haas these days

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morgan :) @morganholiday.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Well why bother with an editor when you’re writing something that is only going to be read by people who really love you from your ten minutes of DTS screen time and probably don’t care about good writing or actual insight

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morgan :) @morganholiday.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

If this is a real thing you have to say then I think you need to start seriously questioning whether the book in question is worth writing

“I'm trying to think of something to write that will make this part of the book feel a bit less predictable and boring.”

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morgan :) @morganholiday.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

He makes the “as a prospective F1 team you have to prove you can add value to the sport” argument in reference to Andretti wanting to join and BOY it’s been a long time but that shit still pisses me off

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morgan :) @morganholiday.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

He just described himself as “the GOAT” of talking???

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morgan :) @morganholiday.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

ok actually this is pretty funny too

The last week has mainly been about sponsorship for me, which I'll come on to in a second. Before that, I will tell you first what I like about the Monaco Grand Prix.
OK, I'm glad we've got that out of the way. Let's
get on to the sponsorship.
I'm only kidding. Well, kind of. Monaco has
some thinos oring for it in terms of what the fans

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morgan :) @morganholiday.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

It’s CONSTANT throughout the book and so annoying

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morgan :) @morganholiday.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Just read the best sentence of the book so far: “Other teams have the corporate gene and we have Gene Haas.”

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morgan :) @morganholiday.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

I’m 15% of the way through and the way this is written is so jarring. He just interrupted his own account of finding out that Russia was invading Ukraine to give an explanation of what porpoising is

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morgan :) @morganholiday.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

At one point in the first chapter he, in the same paragraph, randomly switches topics to bring up AD21 which he talks about for over a page for no discernible reason AND says he wouldn’t hire Adrian Newey if he had the chance because he’s “too exciting”

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Fred Smith @fredsmith.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

You will never find an IndyCar driver that I don't think should skip Gateway to run Le Mans. Alex Palou? He can win the title without those 35 points. Colton Herta? He's better on road courses anyway. Scott McLaughlin? He deserves a shot! Sting Ray Robb? Sure why not maybe he's a silver in WEC.

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morgan :) @morganholiday.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

we are off to a bad start I fear (I’m already sooooo tired of this gimmick)

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morgan :) @morganholiday.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Finally got bored enough to crack this bad boy open, will come back with updates

Guenther Steiner’s “Surviving to Drive” on kindle

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morgan :) @morganholiday.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

or two of your favorite players

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morgan :) @morganholiday.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

The frostbee trade is going to be my villain origin story

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morgan :) @morganholiday.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

been trying to write a specific article for over a week now and I feel like I’ve totally forgotten how to write🫠

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morgan :) @morganholiday.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

So many emotional men on my tv screen😁😁

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morgan :) @morganholiday.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Me? I won’t. I’m thinking about how we lost out on a colton herta LMP2 victory

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morgan :) @morganholiday.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

I’m never posting about him ever again

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morgan :) @morganholiday.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Sleep is calling to me but colton herta is on track

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abby (spooky) @stabbyabby.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Connor Zilisch seems like such a nice young man

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morgan :) @morganholiday.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Got whiplash when you switched from imsaposting to basketballposting

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IndyCar Rolex 24 Updates @indyrolexupdates.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

LMP2 class - Remaining: 18 hrs 11 mins 1: Herta & Sowery Leader Driver: Herta 2: Pedersen -0.794 Driver: BECHE 3: Rasmussen -2.062 Driver: Hyett 7: Bourdais -26.428 Driver: Van Uitert 9: Ilott, Roe, & Fittipaldi -1 lap Driver: Ilott 12: McElrea -82 laps Driver: McElrea

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Fred Smith @fredsmith.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

I see Frederik Vesti is already up to speed on how one is expected to drive the No. 31 Cadillac

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morgan :) @morganholiday.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Does anyone else ever think about the 2022 Race of Champions when Jimmie Johnson and Colton Herta were the USA drivers

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morgan :) @morganholiday.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

I just hope louis deletraz has a good time

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morgan :) @morganholiday.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

I hate seeing so many young drivers throw their careers away because they’re content to sign these contracts for useless roles instead of actual racing seats when these F1 teams obviously don’t care about them at all

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morgan :) @morganholiday.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Alpine signing Franco Colapinto as a reserve driver is a massive slap in the face to Paul Aron, although to be fair at least Aron will probably also be in F2 so at least he gets to race

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morgan :) @morganholiday.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Anyway I bought his book a couple of months ago when it was only $2 on kindle and best believe I’m going to be complaining up a storm when I finally get around to reading it

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morgan :) @morganholiday.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

YEP and now we have to read headlines every time he comes up with another lame take as if it actually matters what he has to say anymore

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morgan :) @morganholiday.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

I think we as a society have progressed past the need for Guenther Steiner

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morgan :) @morganholiday.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

You’re not going to hear any Liam Lawson hate from me because I genuinely think he’s both a very talented driver and a very likeable guy. But I just don’t know what more Red Bull possibly could have asked of Yuki Tsunoda that he hasn’t already done to deserve a shot at that seat

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morgan :) @morganholiday.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Just throwing it out there that I’m officially on the hunt for writing opportunities so if you or someone you know is looking for someone to cover motorsport (I have experience with F1, F2, F3, and IndyCar) please send me a message!!!

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fka disgracecars @thegraceescape.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

finally a cogent explanation for why motorsport is in fact the one true sport!!! it's just the car this the driver doesn't make a difference that, shut up!!! they don't PRACTICE and that's why it's Ultimate Sports. F1 wisely introduced sprint weekends to bring it closer to this platonic ideal!!!

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morgan :) @morganholiday.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

No such thing as a comfortable lead with this team

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morgan :) @morganholiday.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Flyers up 2-0 after the first period I think I’ve seen this film before…

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morgan :) @morganholiday.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Yeah the upside is that Edmund becomes one of the best characters (no bias) and at least everyone liked Beth before she died

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morgan :) @morganholiday.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Being the third out of four siblings (like me) is never fun in literature. Imagine having to be Edmund AND Beth from Little Women

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