Latest F1 offering from Netflix speeds up race to the bottom of sport documentaries

The hit Netflix series ‘Formula 1: Drive to Survive’ is nothing more than a collection of Instagram stories about race car drivers and team owners packaged as serious TV, writes Colin Sheridan

Drive To Survive provided a stock drawn-out template that could be copied and pasted from sport to sport.

Sun, 03 Mar, 2024 - 12:32

Colin Sheridan

Colin Sheridan is a writer and columnist. A former officer in the Irish Defence Forces he has extensive deployment experience as a peacekeeper with the United Nations, having lived and worked in the former Yugoslavia, West Africa, Afghanistan, Lebanon and Palestine.

SEASON 6 of the Netflix “sports documentary” Formula 1: Drive to Survive opens just as you might expect it to, even if you’d never watched it before, or had any passing interest in the sport of motorsport.

An aerial of the sun-drenched marina in Monaco, a handsome young man driving a novelty vintage car around the chicanes above the port, the breeze in his hair.