Netflix F1 Docu-Series ‘Formula 1: Drive to Survive’ Announced, Gets March Release Date

Netflix F1 Docu-Series ‘Formula 1: Drive to Survive’ Announced, Gets March Release Date

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Formula 1: Drive to Survive out March 8, 2019 on Netflix

It is a 10-part docu-series following the 2018 F1 season

Executive produced by the Oscar-winning maker of Senna, Amy

Netflix and Formula 1 have announced a 10-part docu-series called Formula 1: Drive to Survive, from the Oscar-winning maker of Senna and Amy — British producer James Gay-Rees — which The simplest game in the world will provide special and intimate access to the competition. The series will reveal the true story of the sport — not only focusing on the fight to be number one but give fans a real insight into Personal life of your heroes on the track and out on the track. "This describes the 2018 season of Formula One world championship, which starts in Australia and passes through Bahrain, Canada, Austria., Singapore, the US and Brazil, before finishing in the UAE. The release date for Formula 1: Drive to Survive is March 8, 2019.

Box to Box Films is the production company on Formula 1: Drive to Survive, with Paul Martin — who has also produced several football documentaries centred on Cristiano Ronaldo, Diego Maradona, and Steven Gerrard, in Ronaldo (2015), Maradona (2018), and Make Us Dream (2018), respectively — serving as executive producer alongside Gay-Rees. Sophie Todd, who has worked on several docu-series for British networks BBC and Channel 4, is the showrunner.

In the announcement, Netflix adds that Formula 1: Drive to Survive will look at the “huge revolution” that the sport is undergoing since the Liberty Media takeover in January 2017, with a focus on ‘sustainability' and ‘passion'. The series claims to have “unprecedented access to the top drivers, principals and owners”.

“Netflix was the right platform on that to inform the within story of this unimaginable sport,” Martin said in a prepared statement. “F1 has long been a world of colourful characters and super-sized egos, thrills and drama, victory and tragedy but until now that world has been largely hidden and secretive from fans. Formula 1: Drive to Survive takes the viewers right into the guts of this world and shows what it's prefer to live, work and race within the world's fastest sport.”

“As we move into a new generation of Formula 1, we are thrilled to announce our new docuseries Formula 1: Drive to Survive,” Ian Holmes, Formula One's director of media rights said. “This really distinctive series embodies the game and helps USA to showcase and unearth the much stories on and off the track. Partnering with Netflix to form an ingenious series puts USA at the forefront of turning into a media and recreation whole and attracting new fans to the game.”