'Drive to Survive' Season 8, Episode 5 Recap
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🗓️ 27 February 2026
⏱️ 18 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, welcome to the Ringer F1 show, part of the Ringer podcast Network. I am your host, |
| 0:17.5 | Megan Schuster, and we are here to talk about season eight of Drive to Survive. |
| 0:21.4 | I'm joined, as always, by Spaners. Yeah, I've just flown in on a jet. Wasn't it nice to see Williams having a lovely day out? So, so lovely. A lovely day out with friends. Do you need a cup of tea? Do you need a tissue? Uncle James looking after you. It was amazing. We are talking about episode five of season eight of Drive to Survive called The Sky's |
| 0:40.5 | the Limit. |
| 0:41.5 | Finally a Williams episode for me. |
| 0:43.8 | This was huge. |
| 0:45.0 | We start off with a real guys being dudes intro in which Alex Albon and James Vals go up |
| 0:51.2 | with the Blue Angels. |
| 0:53.2 | Drive to Survive asks Alex Albon, |
| 0:55.5 | how much does James love planes? |
| 0:57.6 | And Alex goes, James loves planes. |
| 1:00.2 | And that becomes clear quickly as we get shots of James in the plane with the Blue Angels, |
| 1:05.7 | having the time of his dang life. |
| 1:07.3 | Yeah. |
| 1:07.5 | It was great. |
| 1:09.4 | The focus of this episode, though, outside of the |
| 1:12.1 | planes is on Carlos Seines joining the team for 2025. Yes, really interesting seeing like |
| 1:17.9 | his progression and his mood and getting like, I like his character. Yeah. I like he is determined. |
| 1:23.1 | Yes. He's just, he's just grumpy enough. He's, he's very honest. Yeah. Like, we get that scene of him and James having lunch sort of midseason and Carlos is laying out. These are all the things that are going wrong. This is why we're not scoring points. This is why I'm not able to achieve my maximum success. And James openly agrees with all of them and says, you know, I think those are very astute points. And it's not saying it to be a jerk. He's saying it to be honest and be like, this is where we have to improve to win. And look, let's not pretend that he turned down a Mercedes seat to Williams. Okay, the options kind of closed in. I've got the feeling that he had kind of said, yes, but I'm waiting on the Red Bull Seat situation or whatever. |
| 2:02.4 | And James Valles kept asking, are you in contract talks with Carlos Sines? |
| 2:07.4 | No, yes. |
| 2:08.9 | Like 100%. I'm so excited. |
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