Drive to Survive is back for season 7, and it’s absolute catnip to people like me who were converted to Formula One fans 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.
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Last season seemed (in so many ways) to be the most chaotic F1 season in recent
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