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Christian Horner scandal rehashed as Drive to Survive reveals new F1 villain
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Christian Horner scandal rehashed as Drive to Survive reveals new F1 villain

By Miles Cooper March 4, 2025
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Let’s begin with the plain: has been a dream for for the reason that present landed in 2019. The CEO has been front-and-centre of numerous episodes previously six seasons, gladly taking part in the position of F1’s pantomime villain, with quite a few scenes filmed at his nation mansion house in Oxfordshire, alongside Spice Woman spouse Geri Halliwell.

Season seven was no completely different. The most recent instalment, chronicling the 2024 season, begins with Horner on the wheel of his 4×4, locked in dialog with Geri a few , wherein Crimson Bull received 21 out of twenty-two races.

With an air of inevitability synonymous with Netflix’s exquisitely curated narratives, Geri strikes a warning to her husband: “You by no means know what life’s going to deliver.” In precise face, everyone knows what’s coming subsequent.

Christian Horner scandal rehashed as Drive to Survive reveals new F1 villain

The most recent chapter within the Drive to Survive behemoth, premiering on Friday 7 March, peaks unquestionably at the beginning. Episode one, titled “Enterprise as Standard”, captures by way of a contemporary lens the 2 largest tales in F1 this time 12 months in the past: ’s swashbuckling (starter), and Horner being accused of by a feminine colleague (fundamental course).

Crimson Bull’s final yr in Milton Keynes units the scene. And credit score to the group, firstly, for offering media entry from all angles amid a torrid interval off-track for the then-world champions. The episode then skips to Bahrain, the place Horner finds a brand new foe for the collection – away from the same old suspect of Mercedes boss Toto Wolff – within the form of Californian Zak Brown, the CEO of McLaren.

On the finish of a feisty press convention of no-comments and denials, Brown requires “larger transparency” into Crimson Bull’s investigation. Cue Horner, strutting the stroll of a highly-strung, under-pressure group boss, telling his communications director: “Zak is p****.”

There’s not a lot change a yr on by the season-finale in Abu Dhabi, episode 10, when Horner calls Brown “f****** annoying.”

But the primary episode even touches on these and reveals Horner’s rapid response on the Bahrain pitwall. It’s fascinating viewing, concluding with that the majority putting of paddock pictures: Geri accompanying her husband, hand-in-hand, on race-day in Bahrain. The pop star even provides Max Verstappen’s dad, Jos, a hug after his son’s victory, regardless of the which continued into the early weeks of the season. The episode ends with affirmation that the unique criticism and an attraction have been , with Horner cleared of any wrongdoing.

The unearthing of tension at Red Bull does receive attention in season seven (Getty Images)

However that’s about nearly as good because it will get. An episode targeted on Mercedes’s seek for Hamilton’s substitute centres weirdly extra on George Russell than Kimi Antonelli’s promotion. Most bizarrely, Russell’s ascent to “group No 1” hinges within the collection on his win on the Belgian Grand Prix final summer season, but inexplicably fails to say that with teammate Hamilton really taking the victory.

On Hamilton, his receives little protection, however the well-known increase mic does handle to select up fascinating element from a pre-season testing chat at a press convention with Carlos Sainz, the person he has changed at Ferrari.

“Have you ever talked to Toto?” asks Hamilton. “I haven’t talked to Toto but,” Sainz replies. “Which makes me really feel like if he had actually an curiosity, he would have already referred to as.”

Sainz’s eventual transfer to Williams makes up one episode, as James Vowles beats Sauber (Audi) and Alpine to his signature. But with a smidge of an episode targeted on Daniel Ricciardo’s emotional second retirement and Guenther Steiner’s sacking at Haas that means the expletive-laden former group boss barely options, who would change Steiner because the outspoken star of the present?

Netflix picked up a conversation between Carlos Sainz and Lewis Hamilton (Getty Images)

Enter stage left: Flavio Briatore.

The Alpine kingmaker, who returned to the French group final summer season after 15 years out of the game following the , is an enigma.

Requested how he responds to his naysayers, the 74-year-old replies: “Persons are jealous of me.” Questioned on what made Sainz select Williams, he says: “Everybody makes errors.” Upon telling Jack Doohan of his 2025 race seat at Alpine, Briatore says: “The way forward for the Jack – I management you each millimetre.”

It’s chilling. It’s enthralling. And Doohan’s face tells the story.

Flavio Briatore figures prominently in the new season of Drive to Survive (Getty Images)

On the entire, amid a high-octane 2024 marketing campaign, the narratives this time converse for themselves. A view of the Singapore Grand Prix from the attitude of 5 drivers is a pleasant change of tempo. Lando Norris’s title tilt with recognized Netflix-detractor Max Verstappen is intriguing, however provided that you by some means missed the .

Unusually, the Dutchman’s receives no point out in any respect – a narrative to inform for a season eight but to be confirmed, maybe? Adrian Newey’s Crimson Bull exit and Ollie Bearman’s Ferrari bow in Saudi Arabia additionally obtain no point out.

However whereas different sports activities have tried and didn’t crack the fly-on-the-wall docu-series code – rugby union, biking and tennis have all seen collection’ decommissioned from Netflix – Method 1 continues to go from power to power with DtoS. One other collection ought to deliver one other enhance in eyeballs, simply in time for the subsequent week.

This time although, the game did its personal curating; there was little must manufacture. Particularly when you have got figures like Horner, embroiled in controversy and gossip, who embrace the highlight simply as a lot because the highlight embraces them.

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