Netflix ‘Drive to Survive’ begins season 5 one of the simplest ways doable, with Steiner and Binotto

Within the official trailer launched earlier than Season 5 of the Netflix sequence Drive to Survive, producers teased quite a lot of the foremost storylines that unfolded through the 2022 Components 1 season. There was a tense dialogue between Mercedes Workforce Principal Toto Wolff and Pink Bull Workforce Principal Christian Horner relating to Mercedes’ aerodynamic struggles, in addition to a dialogue between FIA President Mohammed Ben Sulayem and Horner relating to Pink Bull’s cost-cap violations. Inside discussions at McLaren relating to driver Daniel Ricciardo — in some ways the face of the sequence — have been additionally highlighted.

So when the fifth season of the docuseries debuted on Friday, followers of each the game, and the Netflix sequence, waited to see how the season would start.

It started in one of the simplest ways doable, with “Guenther and Mattia’s Winery Journey.”

As a substitute of a extra heated matter, the primary episode opened with Haas Workforce Principal Guenther Steiner and Ferrari Workforce Principal Mattia Binotto poured right into a tiny inexperienced Fiat 500, taking a drive via the hills of Italy earlier than stopping at Binotto’s winery to drink wine, share a meal, dish about F1, and toast to the yr forward.

Guenther even introduced his pal a present, a blue apron with the monogrammed “Mattia” on the entrance.

Followers of the game, and the sequence, shortly realized that this was the buddy comedy they didn’t know they wanted:

Sadly for the 2 staff bosses, which may have been the excessive level of their seasons. Haas completed eighth within the Constructors’ Championship — which to be honest was an enchancment from their tenth-place end in 2021 — and whereas Ferrari’s season began properly, it didn’t finish properly.

However we are able to cope with these storylines later. For now, we’re simply going to bask on this healthful begin to the season, and the thought of a full sequence with these two touring vineyards and entering into all kinds of misadventures.

I’d watch …