Netflix has recovered unpublished photos of Michael Schumacher and Max Verstappen

The fifth season of Netflix documentaries ‘Drive to Survive’ Focusing on the Formula 1 World Cup, it was released this Friday with surprise unpublished photos of seven-time world champion Michael Schumacher and two-time champion Max Verstappen when the Dutchman was a child.

Verstappen returns to make producer statements in this fifth season after ban on documentaries lifted of Netflix under his conditions and to ensure that his words are not misrepresented. And the Red Bull driver reckons that in the first seasons of the series they left him wrong by creating false rivalries with his former team-mate Daniel Ricciardo and Lewis Hamilton.

In an episode of this fifth season, Verstappen recounted how he grew up with Schumacher’s children, Gina and Mick, as their respective patriarchs, Jos and Michael, were teammates at Benetton in 1994 and then kept their relationship. “We’d go on vacations together when we were little, both families, and those memories will stay with me,” Max explained.

For two seasons Max Verstappen and Mick Schumacher, two years apart, have shared the grid: “For both of us, being in F1 is incredible and also for Michael, who is a very proud father,” said the champion.

The episode also featured an old clip of Michael and Jos discussing the possibility of their sons racing against each other in F1, with Michael joking that it might be “the first time we’ve ever had that discussion”.

This is not the first time that ‘Mad Max’ refers to the relationship with the Schumacher family. In an interview with F1 Insider, the Dutchman spoke about his relationship with ‘Uncle Michael’ and told the anecdote that “he was about three or four years old and I remember calling him in a friendly and familiar way. Always I know him as Uncle Michael, he loves me very much and wants to be together as a big family.”

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“I still have old photos where you can see Mick and his sister Gina who were often with us in the motorhome. So funny. I have great memories of Grand Prix weekends.”

“I didn’t speak German at the time, and I don’t remember what language I spoke to him. But the truth is that children at that age have no problem communicating with anyone, even if we don’t speak the same language,” said the Dutchman.