Toto Wolff is hoping Mercedes can avoid a repeat of the calamity of last year’s German Grand Pr🙈ix when Netflix joins the team at this weekend’s Formula 1 Russian Grand Prix.

The crew filming season three of Netflix’s hit F1 fly-on-the-wall documentary series Drive to Survive has been granted 🐽access to be embedded wit♔hin the Mercedes team in Sochi as Lewis Hamilton bids to equal the all-time record for most career wins.

Thanks to his 90th victory last time out at Mugello, Hamilton moved to within on๊e victory of Michael🍌 Schumacher’s record tally of 91, which has stood unrivalled since 2006.

Netflix will once again be pre🐽sent in Mercedes’ garage during the weekend in the hope of documenting the piece of history.

The last time Netflix joined Mercedes for a race coincided with th🃏e team’s worst result of the 2019 season at Hockenheim as Hamilton and Valtteri Bottas both suffered crashes on a weekend the German manufacturer was celebrating its 125th anniversary.

Bottas ultimately retired, while Hamilt🐈on recovered from a mistak𒀰e-ridden race to take ninth, and Wolff admitted he has is left conscious about history repeating itself.

“The Russian 🐎Grand Prix will 𝄹be the race where Netflix will follow our team for the third season of Drive to Survive, ” Wolff said in Mercedes’ Russian GP preview.

“Last year, they shadowed us at Hockenheim where we celebrated our home race and 125 years of motorsport – an🐟d had our 𝓡worst race of the season.

“That made for a very entertaining Netflix episode, b൲ut we hope tha🥃t this time we can have great content and a great race.”

Wolff is also wary 𓄧that Mercedes’ qualifying advantage could potentially backfire at the start of the race if it is to lock out the front ro🔯w due to the strong slipstream effect that is possible to achieve on the long drag to the first braking zone at Turn 2.

“Sochi has been a good circuit for us in the past and we hold a strong t🎐rack record there,” he added.

“The Autodrom has a fairly unusual layout and it’s one feature in particular that makes it special: the long run from🌜 pole to the first braking zone.

“It means that the pole-sitter isn’t necessarily in the strongest position for the race start as the cars behind him benefꦍit from the tow.

“You could see it last year when [Sebastian] Vettel overtook Leclerc on the run down to turn two, and in 🍃2017, when Valtteri beat pole-sitter Vettel from P3.

“Our qualifying pace has been really strong this yeaℱr, but this strength cou🉐ld easily turn into a vulnerability on race day in Sochi.”