Max Verstappen strongly criticized the Formula 1 series and justified his absence in the new season

Max Verstappen criticized Netflix for the popular series Drive to Survive that has generated millions of people fanatizing Formula 1. The Dutchman had already aimed against this product that shows behind the scenes of the races and that is why he chose not to participate in the last season.

On a day of security alarms after a missile attack and fire at a nearby oil plant, the reigning champion vented his recent frustrations, after failing to finish at the Bahrain Grand Prix, in the series in which he refused to participate after objecting to how he was portrayed.

“It's just not my thing,” he said. “They tried to pick moments, throughout the season, and make them somehow.” As an example of what he didn't like, he referred to an episode of the fourth season in which Lando Norris and Daniel Ricciardo appear: “It's not even about me, it's about Lando and Daniel, who I think are two great guys. They're very nice, first of all. And it made it seem that Lando was a bit of a jerk, which is not at all and, again, I know Lando and I think a lot of people know Lando as a fun guy, a great guy, he has a great character. And actually, when you watch that episode, you really think like 'who is this guy, what the hell is going on? ' .

Verstappen insisted that the series seeks to show conflicts that are not such and create villains in races to gain an audience, something that according to his point of view, they tried to do with him: “(Lando) is a great guy and you immediately get a wrong image of a person. And that's exactly what I think happened to me at first. I'm someone who when you screw it up from the start, you don't fix it. That's it, you ruined it. So, that's my position and that's how I'll move on.”

The Red Bull driver had already said something similar a few weeks ago in dialogue with the AP news network: “They faked some rivalries that don't really exist. So I decided not to be a part of it and I didn't give any more interviews after that because then there's nothing you can show”

This new installment, which has ten episodes of 40 minutes on average, focused on a good part of the articles in the title dispute between Max Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton throughout the tournament. In previous editions, Drive To Survive showed some rivalries that gave a lot to talk about, such as the one starred by Esteban Ocon and Sergio Checo Pérez during their time as teammates in Force India (former Racing Point and current Aston Martin), or that of Verstappen himself with Daniel Ricciardo in Red Bull.

Finally, after the premiere, the young star of the Austrian team returned to the BBC: “I only watched two episodes, but I wasn't very impressed. It's just not my thing, pretending rivalries.”

With information from AFP

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