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Drive To Survive on Netflix doesn’t actually focus much on Lewis Hamilton and co at the top of the F1 leaderboard. This is more by accident than design

BEHIND THE GLAMOUR: Race winner Max Verstappen of the Netherlands (right) is congratulated by second-placed Lewis Hamilton on the podium after the US Grand Prix at the Circuit of The Americas in Austin, Texas, last weekend. The Netflix show Formula One: Drive To Survive has given us a deeper insight into the sport. Picture: Chris Graythen/Getty

The closest Formula One title race in years is also the first one I have followed since Eddie Irvine’s high rascal days.

My interest in the tooth-and-nail battle between Max Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton is down to a recent full-throttle, binge-watch of the Netflix series Formula One: Drive To Survive, which goes behind-the-scenes of F1’s precarious, Darwinian glamour.