Netflix's Drive to Survive Made Me an F1 Fan: Season 7 is The Most Chaotic Yet

Drive to Survive is back for season 7, and it's absolute catnip to people like me who were converted to Formula One thanks to the hit Netflix show. It's even geared me up for a 4 a.m. GMT start for the Australian Grand Prix this weekend. I'm one of many for whom having some narrative context behind the vroom vrooming and enigmatic helmet-clad figures made F1 feel accessible to me for the first time. The truth is that I could've never fallen in love with the sport if I hadn't had the chance to get to know these handsome boys and their high-stakes on-and-off-track squabbles, long-running friendships and rivalries. It's the only reality TV I watch, and better than any soap opera. Long may it continue. Charles Leclerc at Silverstone. Katie Collins/CNET Last season seemed (in so many ways) to be the most chaotic F1 season in recent history, and Drive to Survive haphazardly captures it from all angles. It was even more exciting for me watching it in retrospect, given that this was the fir ... Read full article.