24 January 2024 , 17:07
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The latest season of the ever-popular Netflix Formula 1 docu-drama is set to be released next month.
Formula 1: Drive to Survive has become immensely popular among fans globally. The series has been so successful that F1 chiefs credit it with bringing an army of new followers to the sport itself.
Drivers, team principals and other staff are followed by cameras throughout the year to show fans the inner workings of the sport. The footage is then released as a series on Netflix ahead of the following season.
And fans will not have to wait much longer to get the inside track on what happened in the paddock throughout 2023. The sixth season is set for release on February 23, just a week before the first Grand Prix weekend of the new campaign gets under way in Bahrain.
Box-to-box films continues to produce the series. James Gay-Rees and Paul Martin have been executive producers of the programme since its inception and will continues in their respective roles for the new season.
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Gay-Rees recently spoke to the official F1 website about the impact the series has had on the sport and its global audience. "Genuinely, we are enormously proud to be a part of it," he said.
"There's also a lot of satisfaction at being first with these things and I think that it kind of does feel like the first main access show - certainly out of the UK anyway - that has had this profound effect.
"We've all had the statistics about the changing, younger demographic. And it's tough out there for anybody, for any big organisation, to hold its ground given the amount of choices that are out there for the consumer.
"Bringing such a big new audience to a sport - which obviously was deserved, it just needed somebody to open it up - is massively satisfying. The fact that it wasn't a fluke, the fact that it's grown... It's a real honour and we love it. It's a very difficult show to make, but we love the process, we love the world. Long may it continue!"
Other sports have also looked at the impact Drive to Survive has had on F1's popularity and tried to recreate it. Golf and tennis now have their own respective Netflix series, while a new show about the Six Nations debuted on the streaming platform on Wednesday.