Drive to Survive Season 5: Christian Horner and Toto Wolff's furious foul-mouthed row revealed

Toto Wolff and Christian Horner were at the centre of a furious row between Formula One team principals last year, in which the Mercedes chief warned his rivals they would “be in the s---” if his drivers ended up in the wall as a result of their porpoising issues.

Mercedes team principal Wolff said at last year’s Canadian Grand Prix that he would be “coming after them” if the likes of Horner and Ferrari’s former chief Mattia Binotto continued playing “a dangerous game” by not putting driver safety first.

Red Bull’s Horner did not take kindly to Wolff’s threat, responding by firing back at the Austrian: “Well, change your car then. You’ve got a problem, change your f------ car!”

Details of the blazing row appear in the latest series of Netflix’s Formula 1: Drive to Survive, all 10 episodes of which will be released in the UK on Friday morning.

The content is sure to stir the pot ahead of the new season, which begins in Bahrain on Sunday, March 5. A three-day test at the Sakhir circuit starts on Thursday.

After the messy fallout from 2021 when Red Bull’s Max Verstappen was controversially awarded his maiden drivers’ title at the expense of Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton, tensions ran high throughout last season.

Mercedes began the year poorly, struggling with porpoising, a phenomenon which sees cars bounce up and down uncontrollably at high speeds.

The matter came to a head in Montreal with Wolff furious at rumours that Mercedes were over-exaggerating the issues in an effort to force an FIA intervention.