Drive to Survive has been credited with bringing the sport of Formula One to a whole new fanbase, but one longtime admirer of motor racing complains that the drivers themselves have become more boring as a result.
Jeremy Clarkson, who helmed the BBC’s global hit motoring show Top Gear then The Grand Tour on Amazon Prime, wrote in The Sun newspaper that the glamour that used to go along with the life of a Formula One racing driver now belongs to the past.
Clarkson said:
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“You spend three hours a week driving your car and three hundred hours being interviewed by every damn herbert with an iPhone… in Formula One, everyone is interviewed all the time. On the way to the track. On the track. Before the race. After the race. It’s constant.”
He added: “If you finish in the top three,
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