The popular documentary series set in Formula 1 will have a new season on March 11, when the episodes that narrate the fascinating 2021 championship will premiere.
Days before the 2022 season begins, we will once again have the opportunity to remember 2021, a historic campaign in many ways.
And it is that the duel that they staged throughout the year Max Verstappen Y Lewis Hamilton It had its high point in Abu Dhabi, when the Dutchman overtook the Briton on the final lap to clinch his first Formula 1 world championship.
Netflix, which has been covering the category for a few years through a multi-episode documentary series, has confirmed that the launch of the fourth season will arrive on March 11thjust before the start of the second half of preseason and a week before the 2022 championship begins.
Maximum tension
Netflix has sought to provide the series with tension and uncertainty, which has led to criticism and praise alike. But it is not likely that in 2021 the creators of Drive to Survive have to make a lot of efforts to catch the spectators with the story, because the 22 races last year offered spectacle and maximum tension at all times.
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Max Verstappen’s accident at Silverstone, the debacle at the start of the Hungaroring or the clash between the two candidates for the Monza title are just a few examples. Other highlights of the season were Esteban Ocon’s first victory in Hungary, Fernando Alonso’s return to the podium in Formula 1 in Qatar and Carlos Sainz’s first drawer with Ferrari in Monaco.
successful format
There is no doubt that the format chosen by Netflix and Formula 1 has led to the arrival of new fans in the category, especially in the United States, a country in which efforts have been made in vain for decades.
The audience figures for the series and for Formula 1 attest to this, especially hooking an age group in which the category had a special interest in attracting: those under 25 years of age.
Max Verstappen
That yes, the fourth season of Drive to Survive will lack an important incentive: the world champion decided to reject his direct intervention in the series after verifying the artificiality of many of the stories that were told in the third season.
Although the Dutchman will continue to appear in the images of the competition, he did not grant interviews with which to complement the documentary, something that the rest of the pilots have agreed to do. In the first season, Mercedes and Ferrari They did not collaborate either, although after witnessing the success of the series they agreed to do so from the second onwards.