LONDON: Formula 1 and Netflix Wednesday announced details of the highly-anticipated docuseries ‘Formula 1: Drive to Survive’, which will launch on the OTT video platform on 8 March 2019.
It is a gripping, high-octane 10 part series, which for the first time in the sports history, a series such as this has been given exclusive and intimate access to the greatest racing championship in the world.
From the makers of another popular racing documentary ‘Senna and Amy’, the series will reveal the true story of the sport, not only focusing on the fight to be world champion, but gives fans a real insight into the personal lives of their heroes on and off the track.
The global series will show each stage of the 2018 Formula 1 season, beginning in Melbourne and culminating at the final race of the season in Abu Dhabi. This series is executive-produced by Academy-Award winner James Gay Rees (Senna) and Paul Martin for Box to Box Films with Sophie Todd as the showrunner.
F1 head of media rights Ian Holmes said: “As we move into a new generation of Formula 1 we are thrilled to announce our new docuseries Formula 1: Drive to Survive. This truly unique series embodies the sport and helps us to showcase and unearth the untold stories on and off the track. Partnering with Netflix to create an original series puts us at the forefront of becoming a media and entertainment brand and attracting new fans to the sport”.
Box to Box Films’s Paul Martin added: “Netflix was the perfect platform on which to tell the inside story of this incredible sport. F1 has long been a world of colourful characters and super-sized ego’s, 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 heart of this world and shows what it is like to live, work and race within the world’s fastest sport.”
