Why even more brutal honesty from Steiner may shock

If swearing isn't your thing, and excessive profanities offend you, then you may want to steer clear of this article - and definitely do not watch the Gunther Steiner/Haas episode in series two of Netflix's Drive to Survive series.

On the other hand, if you like a bit of raw emotion (no matter the words being uttered), and you want to know what's coming, then keep going. And definitely do tune in when the series is released on February 28.

The unlikely cult hero of the original Drive to Survive series - which he claims still not to have watched - is back not only with vengeance this time out. Steiner even goes as far as unleashing an entirely new swear word. More on that later.

But while the Haas Formula 1 team principal's outbursts in the first series proved to be endlessly amusing (who can forget, "We fucking looked like rock stars and now we are a bunch of wankers"), a more miserable 2019 for the outfit sheds Steiner's approach to life in a different light. And it becomes painfully clear just how brutal life in F1 can be if things are not going right.

In fact, Steiner edges towards a hero/villain character at times: on the one side, his jokey, uncompromising attitude brings with it some laughs, but some uneasy moments are exposed by his non-compromising attitude.

There's a scene inside the Haas factory prior to the start of the season where he is presenting the car to the staff, and his winding up of driver Romain Grosjean makes the Frenchman appear slightly uncomfortable at times.

"It is a joy to work with you... With some of you, not everybody. Romain?" laughs Steiner.

Then later, as they look at the new Rich Energy black and gold livery, Steiner says: "Romain, the last time a black and gold car was on the grid it finished on the podium with you. Yeah. So can you repeat this?"

Grosjean replies: "We went bankrupt..."

"We are not going anywhere. The car was a f***ing rocket before. There is something f***ing wrong" Gunther Steiner on Haas's mid-season woes

Steiner quickly responds: "No pressure... We are not bankrupt. Not yet. It depends how many cars you destroy this year... Are you upset now with me? It is a joke."

What becomes clear is that Steiner's brusqueness is a constant: whether he is joking, serious, or getting seriously angry. But whereas his appearance in series one came amid the team's brilliant push to fifth place in the constructors' championship, this time the drama around Haas is far greater.

There's the soap opera surrounding the doomed $60million Rich Energy sponsorship deal, the headaches of the failed car upgrades, and then the explosion caused by Grosjean and Kevin Magnussen careering into each other at the British Grand Prix.

Through it all, the impression is that Steiner is a man who tells it like he sees it. He's not the type who fancies team-building away days, and tree hugging, or mystical management techniques. To him, a spade is a spade.

On the receiving end of a lot of Steiner's intensity is Haas's chief race engineer Ayao Komatsu, who has to face questions - and come up with answers - about why the car struggled so much since the update was introduced at the Spanish Grand Prix.

During one discussion after an engineering briefing, Steiner pulls Komatsu aside and tells him: "The car was not a piece of shit, so why did we develop the car to fucking go slower?

"Find out the problem and make progress out of it instead of 'this is better'. It isn't. This is better - it fucking isn't. I want to see progress..."

Later, after the Austrian Grand Prix where the team eventually decides to go back to the original-spec from Silverstone onwards, Steiner says: "Fucking hell Ayao... there is no point. It hurts too much. We are not going anywhere. The car was a fucking rocket before. There is something fucking wrong."

The intensity of the situation is ramped up for the British GP, as the team seeks answers for its problems, but then it all goes wrong as Grosjean and Magnussen collide on the opening lap of the race - robbing the team of a valuable opportunity to gather data on the car.

"They hit each other. Fucking idiots," exclaims a pit crew member.

As Steiner launches another burst of swear words from the pitwall, the tension between the two drivers is clear.

Grosjean tells the cameras, "There is a lot I can accept but not this", while Magnussen's version is: "I got pushed out by my team-mate. Was it on purpose or not? I don't know. But as long as he is in front of me he is happy. He doesn't give a shit about anything else... I need to calm down otherwise I am going to do something stupid."

That sets things up nicely for perhaps the most dramatic few minutes of off-track F1 audio you will hear as, although the cameras were not allowed into a post-race meeting between Steiner and the drivers to talk about what happened, the microphones were still turned on.

And it was dynamite.

"I have fucking had enough of both of you," roars Steiner at the drivers. "You let the fucking team down; me down, when I protected you all the time, and I am not fucking going into who is right and who is wrong. I don't want, 'Oh, he moved' and, 'He moved' and all that fucking wank.

It's brutal, raw, and emotional. But it's exactly the kind of sensation we want to see in F1 in the heat of the moment

"Gene [Haas] spends how much fucking millions a year of his own fucking money and wants to pull the plug because you are two fucking idiots. I've no more to fucking say to you guys. If you don't like it, I don't need you here. Do not come back please."

At that moment, the audio catches a loud bang. It quickly emerges that in his anger at the dressing down, Magnussen had slammed Steiner's office door shut on his way out. Clearly unimpressed, Steiner storms out into the paddock and tracks down Magnussen's trainer.

"He is not fucking doing that to me... he does not fucksmash my door," says Steiner (pictured below with Magnussen in Canada). "Tell him that. If he doesn't want to come back he better tell me... He smashed my fucking office door."

Asked where Magnussen was, Steiner replies: "I don't know where he is. He can fuck off I told him, both of them.

"We have two fucking idiots driving for us, this is not acceptable and we will make changes. If it were my decision now I would sack them both..."

It's brutal. It's raw. It's emotional. But it's exactly the kind of sensation that we want to see in F1 in the heat of the moment.

In a world where the fear is of team bosses and drivers turning into PR robots, getting such an unembellished insight into what life is like behind the closed doors of a motorhome is enlightening. Indeed, that's one of the core successes of the Netflix series.

And in years to come, maybe we can petition the use of a new word to be added to the dictionary.

Fucksmash, verb

To angrily slam shut the door of the office of your boss after a particularly stern dressing down