(Motorsport-Entire.com) – Mercedes allowed Netflix in the Formula 1 season 2019 for exactly one race for the documentation ” Power to Continue to exist “. The German Grand Prix in Hockenheim should be a big celebration for the Silver Arrows with 125 years of motorsport and a historically disguised crew. But in the end the race for Mercedes became an absolute disaster .
And although Mercedes had certainly imagined his story in Netflix differently, you didn't want the producers to cut something out: “I never had a conversation with anyone from Mercedes, who wanted us to take just one frame from the episode, “says production manager Paul Martin from Field to Field Films to 'formula1.com'.
That the story ends so it came as it came that the shooting team was very lucky. Everything battle geared towards a Mercedes show. “It was the perfect storm that Lewis (Hamilton) didn't feel particularly good, that they had changed, the special paint – and then you wake up on race day and it pours like a bucket,” says Martin.
The race itself battle for Mercedes the worst of the entire season. From the departures from Hamilton and Valtteri Bottas to the box chaos at the British, everything went off the rails – bad for the Silver Arrows, good for Netflix. “I don't think we or she expected them to come across like this in the race,” says the producer.
The same applies to the story about Pierre Gasly at Crimson Bull this developed over time until the Frenchman was replaced by Alexander Albon. Everyone could see that it happened, but the documentary also showed conversations between those responsible for Christian Horner and Helmut Marko about Gasly.
“Crimson Bull did not try to hide anything that it happened this way, “says Martin. “It's similar to Mercedes: there have never been discussions with Crimson Bull to mitigate it in any way.”
The producer has to admit that Netflix was often lucky in the first two seasons had to be in the right place at the right time. “For example, we couldn't have imagined that the wheels on both Haas cars in Australia would come off,” he says. And the move from Daniel Ricciardo to Renault came as a surprise. “That changed the entire season.”
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