The greatest seal of approval I can give Netflix’s Formula 1: Drive to Survive is that it converted a friend of mine who never watches motorsport into a devoted fan.
Season one was a roaring success, introducing millions to the behind-the-scenes drama that makes the high-speed action on the track even more thrilling, and you knew a second season would soon follow.
Thankfully, that wait is almost over, with the trailer for season two of Formula 1: Drive to Survive being released yesterday.
The full season will start on Netflix on February 28, and there has been an important change this time around.
The Drive reports:
This time, the series will retell the 2019 F1 campaign and do so with the help of the sport’s frontrunners, Mercedes-AMG and Scuderia Ferrari.
Both Ferrari and Mercedes shut their doors to Netflix’s camera crews while filming Drive to Survive’s first season, believing their status as the most-covered F1 teams meant they needed no additional publicizing. When they saw the show bridged Netflix’s customer base and F1 fans, however, both teams had a change of heart and volunteered to be in season two.
A full roster, featuring raw inside access with all 10 teams.
Enjoy:
What should make this season so enjoyable is that it features the 2019 German Grand Prix, with Mercedes granting access to camera crews for that particular race.
Fans may recall that things didn’t really go according to plan for the outfit, but it did make for epic viewing and was judged by F1’s official YouTube account to be the greatest race of the decade.
More insight:
The series’ executive producer Paul Martin stated in now-deleted tweets (whose contents were archived by a Reddit post) that season two will also revisit Daniel Ricciardo at Renault, follow Pierre Gasly’s emotional rollercoaster of a year, and cast a spotlight on the Belgian Grand Prix weekend, which was blackened by the death of Formula 2 driver Anthoine Hubert during a support race.
In short, it’s going to be riveting viewing.
February 28 – mark it down, F1 fans.
[source:thedrive]
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