Catherine Raynes: The Blue Hour, Unfiltered: My Incredible Decade in Formula 1

The Blue Hour by Paula Hawkins  

An isolated Scottish island, accessible to the mainland only twelve hours a day. A famous (some might say infamous) artist whose notoriously unfaithful husband disappeared after visiting her twenty years ago. A present-day discovery that intimately connects three people and unveils a web of secrets and lies. 
 
Welcome to Eris: an island with only one house, one inhabitant, one way out. Unreachable from the Scottish mainland for twelve hours each day. 
 
Once home to Vanessa: A famous artist whose notoriously unfaithful husband disappeared twenty years ago. 
 
Now home to Grace: A solitary creature of the tides, content in her own isolation. 
 
But when a shocking discovery is made in an art gallery far away in London, a visitor comes calling. 
 
And the secrets of Eris threaten to emerge.... 

  

Unfiltered: My Incredible Decade in Formula 1 by Guenther Steiner  

Formula 1 sensation Guenther Steiner, author of the number one bestseller Surviving to Drive, takes readers into the heart of his ten years running Team Haas, packed with hilarious stories and unprecedented insight into the world of elite motorsport. 

Fasten your seatbelts as Formula 1's favourite underdog, Guenther Steiner, takes you on a wild ride through his ten years at Team Haas. 

From the first seeds of his idea to establish a new F1 team to the challenges of funding and building that team from the ground up, Guenther shares the real story of the origins of Team Haas, immerses readers in the high and lows of its first decade on the grid, and opens up about his departure from the team at the end of 2023. 

As Guenther recalls his proudest achievements and the many, many disasters he has faced, he takes readers behind the scenes, into the pit lanes and garages, and out on to the circuits of the world's greatest race tracks. We spend time with drivers, mechanics, executives, sponsors, commentators and fans, and take in many personal moments too, all the while grappling with the big challenges and small details that keep the wheels of a Formula 1 team turning. 

Told in his inimitable style, packed with hugely entertaining stories, outspoken opinions and unvarnished truths, this is Guenther at his very best – insightful, opinionated and completely unfiltered. 

 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:07):
You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack Team podcast
from News Talks at Me.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
Katherine Rains is our book reviewer. She has read a
couple of reads for us this weekend and has two
to recommend. Hey, Catherine, Morning Jack. So let's begin with
the latest book from Paula Hawkins, the author of The
Girl on the Train tell us about The Blue Hour.

Speaker 3 (00:26):
So this is a slow burn mystery thriller, and it's
set in this very isolated island off the coast of Scotland,
a place called Heiress, and it's only accessible during low tide.
And this island read it's remote and storm batted, and
that isolation and wilderness of the landscape really adds to
the whole area atmosphere of the book. And the island

(00:47):
was inhabited by this famous former artist, a woman called
Vanessa Chapman, and after her death she left her works
and her journals to a guy that was actually really
a former enemy of HER's, a guy called Douglas. But
her cheating husband has also disappeared about twenty years ago.
And then there's this executor of the will, a woman
called Grace, and she's not working particularly quickly to hand

(01:09):
over the Vanessa's estate, and she actually lives in Chapman's house,
and she's supposed to be sorting through these letters and
works to determine what's personal and stays and what's professional
and grea to this foundation that Vanessa had left the
rest of the works too. And then a bone is
found in one of her sculptures and it's revealed that
it could be human, and this revelation links those three

(01:29):
characters together, and so you get it told in the
present and in flashback from two decades ago, so you
get the expert excerpts from her diaries, and this drama
between the characters slowly unrevels. And it's a thriller that
doesn't kind of you know, wagh you with twists and turns.
It just slowly reveals itself bit by bit, and there's
realistic characters in a tense, chilling atmosphere. Has a different

(01:51):
vibe to her most popular book, Girl on the Train,
but it's an excellent read all the same.

Speaker 2 (01:55):
Hic school. Okay, that's The Blueout by Paula Hawkins. You've
also read Unfiltered by Ganha Steiner.

Speaker 3 (02:01):
So Gantha Steiner is one of the stars of the
Netflix documentary Drive to Survive about IF one, and he
was the team principal far has a head of the
twenty twenty four season, but actually he was let go
by Gen Hars, who's the guy that owns the team,
and so he's friend of the responsibilities and the constraints
that Hass might use for an actual fact, he actually
doesn't do this, and he feels fear in the way

(02:25):
that he talks about Hass, you know, and ultimately he
was told that he wasn't required and actually in the
middle of an Italian supermarket at the deli counter. So
that's one way to find out you've got no job.
And it's got those highs and lows and experiences from
twenty sixteen to twenty twenty three. And probably the most
interesting part of it is the opening sections on how
Hass actually entered IF one, and so Steiner goes into

(02:48):
a lot of details about how, you know, he was
an ex Redville engineer and he managed to find himself
a billionaire to invest in this perspective IF one team,
which happened to be Gene Hass, and then he presented
it all to the FIA and they entered eight years
ago and which is really interesting now when you look
at if one really seem anti new operations being part

(03:09):
of the F one Racing and so, yeah, really interesting
the way they talk about it, and he talks about
on track incidents and things about Mik show Schumacher as well,
and about Kevin Magnuson and those relationships and for really
kind of those relationships between himself and Gene Hass and
the frustration as the development tapes were turned off and
then has was wondering why the team was plummeting. So

(03:31):
it's really interesting and yeah, and Steiner has a certain
way with telling the story and recollections and opinions, and
Heather be warned it contains prolific swearing if you've watched
if you've watched Drive to Survive, you will know this.
But it's a good read though, But I think that
there's probably a more interesting autobiography to come in the future,
which he keeps alluding to. But interesting if you want

(03:52):
a little bit more behind the scenes of Drive to Survive.

Speaker 2 (03:55):
Okay, cool, it's unfiltered by Guntha Steiner. He is a
real character. If Drive to Survive is anything to go by,
I beg you Catherine Catherine's first book, The Blue Hour
by Paula Hawkins.

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