F1 and Netflix have confirmed the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Drive 💮to Survive season five release dateℱ as February 24, a we༒ek before the 2023 season gets undꦛerway with the Bahrain Grand Prix. 

Having previously boycotted Netflix due to his criticisms of the way the hit docuseries portrays F1 drivers and their 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:“faked rivalries”, reigning world champion 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Max Verstappen will feature in the upcoming season. 

While we e𒉰agerly await the new episodes to dr๊op, we’ve picked out five storylines we want to see get covered…

Perez’s ‘deliberate’ Monaco crash 

Who knew that a fairly innocuous-looking crash in May would prove to be such a controversial🥀 topic at the back-end of the 2022 season? 

When Verstappen disobeyed Red Bull’s request to give sixth place in the Sao Paulo Grand Prix to teammate 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Sergio Perez to help his quest to claim second place in the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:F1 standings, the Dutch𓆏man claimed his refusal was due to “something that happened in the past”. 

Although Verstappen has never directly revealed what his specific grievance surrounded, it is understood it was prompted by Perez’s crash during qualifying in Monaco which caused a red flag and preve🌊nted Verstappen a shot at taking pole position - and potentially the win. 

Publicly at least, Perez has always 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:denied he crashed on purpose. However, Dutch media claimed Verstappen’s stance in Brazil was 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:payback for Perez’s confession within Red Bul﷽l that his Monaco crash was in fact♍ deliberate. 

Did the Netflix cameras catch 🐎any of the suppo🧸sed fallout? We would love to find out what really happened…

Hamilton injured by bouncing Mercedes 

One of the storylines that dominated the early part of the season, and F1’s new era of aerodynamic regulations, was the emergence of an old phenomenon known as 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:porpoising. 

Mercedes struggled with the high-frequency bouncing - which hampered the performance of their troubled༺ W13 car - more than most teams and spent the majority of the year trying to get to the bottom of the problem. 

Porpoising made for an uncomfortable ride for Mercedes’ drivers, with 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Lewis Hamilton struggling to get out of his car at the end of the Azerbaijan Grand Prix after experiencing s🦩eve🌞re discomfort throughout the race. 

Hamilton and Mercedes’ public complaints led to mass debate and a row over F1’s new regulations, ultimately resultingꩲ in the FIA introducing measures to control porpoising in the interest of safety. 

Red Bull team principal Christian Horner accused Mercedes counterpart Toto Wolff of acting up🍸 for Netflix cameras, who are believed to have captured a fiery ♏exchange between the pair during a heated team boss meeting in Canada. 

Hopefully the true tension of the meeting - and cl🎉ash of team bosses - will🦄 be revealed. 

Alonso’s secret Aston Martin meeting 

The first day of the August summer break was interrupted by bombshell news of 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Fernando Alonso’s departure from Alpine to sign for midfield ri✅vals Aston Martin.&nbs🥃p;

The announcement took everybody by surprise, including Alpine boss Otmar Szafnau▨er, who revealed he only learned of Al💦onso’s exit when he read Aston Martin’s press release on the Monday after the Hungarian Grand Prix. 

Szafnauer believed Alpine were on the verge of agreeing a fresh contract with Alonso following negotiations prior to the summer break. But what the Enstone team didn’t know was that 𒅌Alonso was holding secret meetings with Aston Martin. 

168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Sebastian Vettel’s decision not to extend his own deal and instead retire from F1 opened th🐬e door for Alonso to💞 make his move to Aston Martin. 

Aston Martin wasted no time in finding a replacement, with team♋ owner Lawrence Stroll calling Alonso for secret negotiations that took place in the Hungaroring paddock. 

While the entire world was 🎀focused on Vettel, did the Netflix cameras pick up anythin🐻g from Alonso’s trips to Aston Martin? 

Ricciardo’s bad news 

The other major driver market drama centred around 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Daniel Ricciardo and his exit from McLaren. 

Amid a string of underwhelming performances, Ricciardo publicly insisted on social media last July that he was committed to see out his contract with McLaren,𓆉 which ran until the end of 2023. 

But little did he know that one week earlier, McLaren had completed an agreement to sign 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Oscar Piastri. 

This was revealed when F1’s Contract Recognition Board ruled McLaren had a168澳洲5最新开奖结果: valid contract with Piastri that had been signed on July 4 after a lo🦂ng-running tug-of-war with Alpine for the Australian’s services. 

Ricciardo held discussions with McLaren throughout the summe𓄧r, culminating in official ⛎confirmation of his departure from the team at the end of 2022 at the Belgian Grand Prix in late August. 

Will more details fr🌠om the Ricciardo-Piastri-McLaren triangle emerge on the new season of Drive 🦂to Survive?

Horner’s F1 cost cap talks 

While the F1 world waited for news on Red Bull’s punishment for their ‘minor’ breach of the $145m168澳洲5最新开奖结果: F1 cost cap from Verstappen’s maiden title-winning season in 2021, Horner and FIA president Mohammed Ben🦋 Sulayem were spotted holding extensive talks in the United States Grand ܫPrix paddock. 

Several meetings between Horner and Ben Sulayem to🐻ok place across the weekend, and again ahead of the Mexico City Grand Prix, to agr🔴ee terms with the FIA for an Accepted Breach Agreement. 

Oh, to have been a fly on the w𓂃all during those discussions!

A heated face-off between Horner and McLaren CEO Zak Brown followed in Austin, before Horner held a press conference in Mexico to provide168澳洲5最新开奖结果: Red Bull’s reaction to the FIA’s verdict. 

The F1 cost cap saga was one of the biggest an🍰d most controversial talking points of the year and left us wondering whether Netflix managed to capture anything extra from behind the scenes?