The season was supposed to be about rivalries.

About championships.
About engineering.
About lap times measured down to the thousandth of a second.

The whiteboards in the production office were filled with arrows and storylines:
Red Bull dominance.
Ferrari resurgence.
Old rivalries reignited.

At least that’s what the production crew from F1: Drive to Survive thought when they arrived in the paddock.

They came armed with slow-motion cameras, dramatic music cues, and a list of talking points designed to poke at simmering tensions between drivers. They were ready to document icy handshakes. Passive-aggressive radio messages. The kind of eye contact that screams I will out-qualify you and ruin your weekend.

They were ready to document tension between drivers.