F1 Netflix

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For years, my wife was indifferent with regards to any type of racing. She had no interest in attending any BMWCCA events at Road Atlanta or learning about F1/DTM/LeMans etc. Simply could not care, so I would occasionally follow along passively for oh say over a decade.

Now that F1 is going to race in Las Vegas this Nov she's been following the progress out there and watching the marketing (ie. F1 cars driving through a Casino) and all of a sudden wanted to start watching the F1 series on Netflix.

End result is that she cannot get enough of it. We're watching 1 to 2 episodes a night. lol. :rolleyes:
 
Drive to Survive got me interested in F1, and I'm not unique in that. I watched all of it until this year, profanity got steadily worse, but I tolerated it. It was so bad in this new season I cringed through the first episode and was done. A little editing would have gone a long way. That or telling the gang every other word does not need to be an f-bomb when you're filming.

I have the F1 app and their content and broadcasts are really classy.
 
My wife had no interest in racing for a long time. However, when we lived in Dallas for a stretch, I convinced her to go to an Indy Car race at the Texas Motor Speedway. She loved it and has been asking to go to another soon. I'm sure if we had Netflix, we'd watch Drive to Survive.
 
I've always bee a loose follower of Formula 1. I don't have cable at home, so it was mostly following up after races and reading the Formula 1 subreddit to keep up on details. Races at COTA were always on broadcast televisions, so I did get to watch that live, and my dad and I had a tradition of watching Monaco, then Indy, on the Sunday before Memorial Day.

After Liberty Media took over F1, things got so much better. They took it from the closed-wall sandbox of Ecclestone and opened it up so much. I've subscribed to the F1 TV streaming service since 2019, which made for a famine-to-feast scenario of races to watch. I keep Friday P1 and P2 sessions on the tele while I work from home, catch the Saturday P3 recap before qualifying, then wake up early on Sunday and watch the pre-race show and race. It was one of the few things I really looked forward to during the pandemic, once the season started again.
 
I'm a longtime fan of F1 but the few episodes of Drive to Survive I watched were too focused on driver personalities and drama that it was a turn-off. That said, I'm glad the show exists as it has some great behind-the-scenes access to stuff the fans never get to see.
 
Drive to Survive got me interested in F1, and I'm not unique in that. I watched all of it until this year, profanity got steadily worse, but I tolerated it. It was so bad in this new season I cringed through the first episode and was done. A little editing would have gone a long way. That or telling the gang every other word does not need to be an f-bomb when you're filming.

I have the F1 app and their content and broadcasts are really classy.
Yeah, the Euros really love their F-bomb.

I've been watching and going to F1 races since the late '60s. Today's version of F1 is a soap opera. The last F1 driver to actually look like a man - and not a boy - was Mark Webber.

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Drive to Survive got me interested in F1, and I'm not unique in that. I watched all of it until this year, profanity got steadily worse, but I tolerated it. It was so bad in this new season I cringed through the first episode and was done. A little editing would have gone a long way. That or telling the gang every other word does not need to be an f-bomb when you're filming.

I have the F1 app and their content and broadcasts are really classy.
Agree wholeheartedly....Season 5 was not good at all. It happens to all series like these, they start out great with real content then having to keep pushing the envelope with drama to keep people interested.

The racing has not been good at all this year with the domination of Red Bull.
 
2014-2020 (7 times in a row) Mercedes /
Any better? ;)

The Schumacher run was worse, because he was the anointed one who, by team rule, could not be challenged by the only other driver on the grid with the car that could present the best challenge.

I've also seen first hand the effect DTS has had, from unexpected demographics.

From the ones I've watched, not my cup of tea, but it works, and has done its job to attract a larger eudience to the sport.

Though I'm not particularly a fan of either, I've gotten my behind-the-scenes fix from watching Alonso's and now Verstappen's docuseries. Leanred that Jos the Boss married a racer herself, and Max was the result.

From what I've seen in F1, dating to the early 80s, it has always been a circus, and soap opera, with the gamesmanship, gossip, and treachery to supplement the on-track action, and compensate when that was lacking in itself. On Track's F1 parody column was not authored by Effe Juan by mistake.

Also keep in mind that McLaren nearly swept the table in 1988, were it not for Jean-Louis Schlesser.
 
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