Formula 1: Drive to Survive just debuted it’s seventh season on Netflix!
The popular series’ latest 10 episodes center on the 2024 F1 season, sharing a behind-the-scenes look at last year’s races, including “new team lineups, management takedowns, fierce friendships and bitter rivalries of another high-octane season on the Formula 1 circuit.”
While the new season of the Netflix series focuses on the 2024 season, the 2025 Formula 1 season is about to begin in a week.
With the new season starting, fans may be wondering if the Netflix cameras will be filming, and the show’s executive producer James Gay-Rees shared an update on the possibility!
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“We’re hopefully about to embark on season eight. There are some shows that have done 20 seasons, 30 seasons. Some things go on and on and on. So who knows?” James told THR. “But yeah, we definitely would. It’s our eldest child, you know? So it has a special place in the company’s heart. But everything is changing so quickly these days. You can’t really count on anything.”
“We had a great meeting yesterday about storylines for this season coming up because we play this game every year, which is like, what do we think is going to happen? Because you can get your crystal ball out in Formula One and kind of read the stones or whatever it is, to see where things are going to land,” he continued. “And obviously, we quite often get caught off guard. But part of the fight is trying to work out which teams are going to blow up or which driver pairings are going to be problematic. Whatever it might be.”
Does James have any predictions for what’s to come in the 2025 F1 season that could play out on Drive to Survive?
“It’ll be fascinating to see how Charles [Leclerc] and Lewis [Hamilton] get on. It’s gonna be fascinating to see how [Carlos] Sainz and [Alexander] Albon get on. Only McLaren stayed with the same driver pairing. So everywhere you look, there are new combinations. I mean, Liam Lawson’s a really punchy kid. He is number two, but he’s going to have a crack. All those rookies are coming in, I didn’t get a sense they’re there to make up the numbers. I think they’re all there [on merit] considering how massive the sport has grown and how much focus there is on it. There’s going to be cheesy story lines.”
Season seven of Formula 1: Drive to Survive is currently streaming on Netflix, and the 2025 Formula 1 season officially kicks off NEXT weekend, March 14-16, with the Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne!
