Netflix viewers urge streaming giant to bring out spin-off series starring Guenther Steiner after realisation that the new season of Drive to Survive will be his last

The release of season six of Drive to Survive was a cause for excitement for F1 fans but it also brought with it a sad realisation. 

The new season of the hit docu-series dropped on Netflix on Friday and has been received well once again.

However, there was also a bittersweet element for viewers as they came to accept that this would be the last time they see Guenther Steiner on the show.

Steiner, a breakout star of the series, lost his job as team principal of Haas last month.

The Italian-American engineer made his name as the foul-mouthed boss of the US-owned team, winning a fan base that had been largely unaware of him as a long-serving backwoodsman executive at Jaguar and Red Bull.

His Germanic-sounding expletives – he was born on the Austrian border – had groupies besieging him at race tracks and airports around the world for autographs and selfies.

And Drive to Survive fans are now calling for him to be given his own spin-off show.

One tweeted: Just started Drive to Survive and when I first saw Guenther, knowing what happened a few weeks ago. Won’t be the same next year.’

Another wrote: ‘can Netflix please give them a show where they travel around Italy’ alongside a picture of Steiner with former Ferrari team principal Mattia Binotto.

The tweet received over 5,000 likes with one person replying ‘Netflix’s version of The Grand Tour’.

Steiner, after a season that saw Haas finish last in the constructors’ championship, makes way for Ayao Komatsu, the team’s Japanese 47-year-old director of engineering. It brings to an end a reign of 10 years.

Mail Sport understands Steiner rowed with owner Gene Haas and that they pretty much mutually decided his time was up. Steiner demanded more investment, though Haas might have pointed out that he wasn’t getting much return on his £105million budget-cap restrained outlay.