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.

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

Netflix’s flagship sports docu-series F1: Drive to Survive will return for an eighth season. According to multiple persons attached to the project and the film crew spotted amongst the paddock in the pitlane for the Australian Grand Prix, we know that season 8 is a go.

Mercedes F1 driver George Russell revealed he is more focused on his performance in the 2025 F1 season than Netflix's Drive to Survive.

The show may have had its critics over the years, but Drive To Survive has been credited with leading F1’s popularity boom in the U.S.

“Formula 1: Drive to Survive” Season 7 will premiere on Netflix on Friday, March 7. “Formula 1: Drive to Survive” Season 7 will stream on Netflix starting at 3 a.m. ET/12 a.m. PT. “Formula 1: Drive to Survive” Season 7 will have 10 episodes, like every season before.

Rees, executive producer of the hit Netflix reality series, talks about the show's experimental approach this season: "There are definitely two or three episodes which are a departure for us."

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

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.