Guenther Steiner is returning to Australia and New Zealand in December for a speaking tour. Image: XPB Images
The tour marks the former Haas Formula 1 team principal’s second run of Australian live shows after he travelled around the country in March 2025 with Guenther Steiner: Unfiltered Live, which coincided with the release of his book Unfiltered.
His latest show will instead arrive immediately after the conclusion of the 2026 F1 season and is set to focus heavily on a year featuring sweeping new technical regulations and major changes across the championship.
The live conversation will give Steiner the opportunity to assess which teams best mastered the new regulations, the performances of the sport’s emerging drivers and the broader state of F1, while each show will also feature an audience Q&A.
Steiner has built a reputation for his candid assessments of the sport, something that became a defining feature of his appearances in the Netflix series Formula 1: Drive to Survive during his time running Haas.
“People talk about football managers [or entertainers] being under pressure. Trust me, that’s nothing. Pressure is watching one of your drivers hit a barrier at 190mph and exploding before your eyes,” Steiner said.
The 61-year-old became one of F1’s most recognisable figures during his eight seasons as Haas team principal from 2016 to 2023, overseeing 166 grands prix before his contract was not renewed ahead of the 2024 season.
His motorsport career began in rallying, where he worked with drivers including Carlos Sainz Snr and Colin McRae, before moving into F1 with Jaguar and later Red Bull.
He subsequently helped build Red Bull’s NASCAR operation in the United States before being recruited by Gene Haas to establish Haas F1 from the ground up.
Since leaving F1, Steiner has remained a regular media pundit and author, while he also led the consortium that acquired the Red Bull KTM Tech3 MotoGP team in 2025.
The tour will begin in Brisbane on December 9 before visiting Sydney on December 13 and Melbourne on December 14.
It will then travel to Christchurch and Auckland on December 15 and 16 respectively before returning to Australia for its final show in Perth on December 18.
Steiner’s return continues a growing trend of current and former F1 personalities taking live stage shows to Australia.
Former McLaren teammates Mika Hakkinen and David Coulthard toured the country earlier this year following a successful series of shows in Britain and Ireland, while 1996 world champion Damon Hill will arrive in September and October alongside F1 commentator Tom Clarkson.
Former Red Bull team principal Christian Horner has also been attempting to bring his own speaking tour to Australia.
Horner was initially scheduled to appear in Melbourne, Sydney and Perth around this year’s Australian Grand Prix before an “unforeseen scheduling conflict” pushed the shows back to August.
Those dates have since quietly been postponed again without an official explanation, with the tour now listed for Sydney on March 30, Perth on March 31 and Melbourne on April 2 next year.
Presale tickets for Steiner’s No Team Orders tour will be available from 11am local time today via Fane’s website, before general sale begins at the same time on Thursday, September 3.