Hii, here is the anon from this morning ☺️. Here are the parts where George is mentioned… in my opinion quite positive and also really interesting. Sadly there were no comments about Qatar but maybe we see it at a later point 👀
Question: Have there ever been any things that were in the final cut of DTS, but a team or driver asked you to remove it?
Answer: Well, the teams don't have editorial control, [...]. There are things that are incredibly sensitive moments, and we don't want to do that without the team or driver (or being supportive of why we’re doing that). A great example from this year is George Russell after the Singapore Grand Prix. It's pretty unwell after being in that car overheating for the full duration of the Grand Prix, and he needs some medical attention, and that clip obviously is pretty intense. We've included that in collaboration with Mercedes and George and everybody that was involved, because it's important to us that if we're going to show something like that, everybody supports it and everybody's on board with it.
Question: why arent moments like Olli Bearman or Georges DSQ in Spa included in S7 of DTS?
Answer: I think, listen, the George one's quite an easy one to address because for us, that race was not about the eventual classified race result. That race was about George taking control of the decision-making of that team.
And that was the first time really that we'd see, the team wanted him to pit, they wanted him to put new tires on, they wanted to do all of this stuff. And George took the responsibility for that race and said, no, I think I can make it to the end on these tires. That's what was important to us there because that was him showing number one driver mentality properly and actually giving the insight that he could run that team, he could take that step and be a number one.
And therefore Toto didn't need to look for a number one to replace Lewis because he had one, a homegrown one in George. The fact that he was then disqualified for something to do with weight and you're just like, oh my goodness me. The team made a mistake, which ultimately led to him being disqualified.
It doesn't take away from the fact that George's decision-making in that Grand Prix was the mark of a future leader. So that for me, that's quite a straightforward one. The Ollie one's more interesting because we have this a lot in Drive to Survive.
There's so many amazing stories that you really wish you could tell. And it's not necessarily that we don't have footage because we actually do have footage of the Ollie stuff. But you can't start a story, you then can't pay off in a way that's fulfilling. [...]
Please put it in the comments if I'm wrong, which I probably am. I think there was an amazing race from George where he won. He won, I think it was the Brazilian Grand Prix a couple of years ago.
And it didn't really make it into Drive to Survive. And then we showed part of it the following season because we were doing an episode that was more about George and kind of what was going on with him. So I think that's sort of key.
P1 with Matt and Tommy: Talking Drive to Survive, with Co-Exec Producer Tom Rogers
https://podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/p1-with-matt-and-tommy/id1670705840?i=1000698689626&r=3429
Wow anon thank youuuu thank you so much for taking the time to drop the tea!!!
