The melodrama of the 2024 F1 season -- both on and off the track -- comes back to bite in the latest installment of the hit Netflix show.

The Netflix series' success relies on the invisible dance of boom mics and cameras capturing F1's paddock drama.

Formula 1, and Netflix producers, have defended ‘Drive to Survive’ against withering attacks from the sport’s top stars Lando Norris and Max Verstappen. Verstappen

Sports fans love an underdog story. But what happens when the sport itself becomes the underdog? That was the position that Formula One found itself in the late 2010s, as the motor sport – which had been running for nearly 70 years – fell towards the back of the pack.