Friday 11 March the Formula 1 teams and drivers will be engaged in the second day of pre-season tests, the penultimate ever before the actual start of the 2022 world championship nine days later, again in Bahrain. However, regardless of the activity on the track, this week’s weekend will also coincide with another awaited appointment for fans of the Circus, thanks to the debut of the fourth season of the docu-series. Drive to Survive on Netflix. The title, which has generated a huge following around the world, increasing the popularity of Formula 1, has not, however, been positively received by the protagonists of the series themselves, with some controversies coming from drivers and professionals who have contested a distorted truth of the events played in the episodes.
Among those who have expressed the most negative reviews, there is above all the Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff. The Austrian manager, in an interview with theIrish Independenthe did not in fact hide all his aversion to Drive to Survivecommenting on it on the eve of the fourth season: “I’m watching the first two episodes, and I hate it – explained Wolff – I never wanted to have the camera in my face. In any case, you suddenly realize that it has become hugely successful all over the world, generating a new and young audience. Regardless of that, I really hate seeing myself in there – a spin to the narrative is created, where they are put together scenes that didn’t happen. As an insider – he concluded – one would therefore say that reality is represented in a different way than the authentic one. However, we are creating entertainment, and this is its new dimension ”. The Mercedes team principal therefore aligns himself with Max Verstappen, who denied himself to the microphones and cameras of Netflix precisely because in the first few seasons he realized how much more than a documentary it is an artfully edited fiction.
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