The producers of Netflix’s Drive to Survive have insisted that it didn’t matter to them how the championship resulted in 2025, explaining that the narrative would have labored for the eighth season of the docuseries if Lando Norris, Oscar Piastri or Max Verstappen had gained.
Govt producer James Homosexual-Rees and co-executive producer Tom Rogers spoke to F1.com concerning the making of the eighth collection of Drive to Survive.
“There’s a joke in an episode in direction of the top of the season, ‘Was this scripted by Netflix?’” Rogers mentioned.
“It actually didn’t matter to us which method the chips fell final 12 months,” he continued. “If Max had achieved it, you’d have had the best comeback of all time, and that’s an unbelievable story. Then, with Lando or Oscar, both method it was going to be someone’s first title, and that’s an incredible finish to the story as effectively.
“Lando’s been a giant supporter of the collection, all the time collaborating in it from the beginning, however I actually suppose, nonetheless that final race of the season had manifested, it could have been good for us and good for the game.”
Homosexual-Rees added: “It was an incredible season, and nice to be on the within of it, as all the time. Clearly a lot of it got here all the way down to the McLaren narrative, and so they have been actually good to work with. Zak Brown, the 2 drivers, the assist workers, the communications folks, the motive force managers, they have been actually, actually unbelievable.
“Seeing Max and Crimson Bull reel them in because the season went on was fairly particular – fairly terrifying for McLaren, however fairly entertaining for the remainder of us! And you need to give much more respect to Max for the best way he handled it; he appeared to do it with a little bit of a smile on his face and a way of humour, which was good to see.
Max Verstappen, Crimson Bull Racing , Drive to Survive Season 8
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“I believe each potential title final result was equally intriguing. Like lots of people, I assumed Oscar was going to do it, and the explanation why his problem fell away are fairly difficult.
“Max got here again the best way that he did, and then you definitely have been considering, ‘Is Lando going to carry his nerve and get it achieved?’ But it surely was a win, win, win for us.”
The eighth season of Drive to Survive was launched on Netflix on 27 February, earlier than the 2026 Method 1 season begins with the Australian Grand Prix from 6-8 March.
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