It’s fake drama! Formula 1 drivers criticize Netflix’s Drive to Survive. Do you agree with them?

Do you like this series? Netflix already had plenty of material for the fourth season of Drive to Survive, which is traditionally due out a few weeks before the new season. However, the series was roundly criticised by the drivers, with Max Verstappen even calling it an artificial drama. What do the drivers have a problem with this production?

One of the first drivers to harshly criticise the Drive to Survive series was Daniel Ricciardo. The McLaren pilot made his comments about Netflix earlier this April. His statement can be found on Motorsport.

According to Ricciardo, there were several moments in the third series where Netflix overdid it by and large. The thirty-two-year-old Australian was particularly bothered by the way the creators portrayed the relationship between him and Carlos Sainz.

“For me, he’s no more of a rival than anyone else. There was no personal animosity. I think Netflix wanted to create a drama that didn’t exist in real life,” Ricciardo said in an interview with the Motorsport website.

And it was Sainz who was another driver who didn’t like Netflix’s efforts. “The episode in the third series about Ferrari is not that great. I was quite disappointed when I watched it because Ferrari is much more relaxed, bigger and better than what we see in that episode,” Sainz told GQ in an interview.

Charles Leclerc then confirmed his words. According to both drivers, there is a good atmosphere in the Italian stable. And as we can now see, Ferrari is well on its way to becoming a winning team again.

Also very upset is Red Bull driver and one of the championship contenders, Max Verstappen. He’s even decided to boycott the fourth series and will not be making any comments to Netflix.

On the Race Fans website, we can find an interview that Verstappen gave to ABtalks. “I understand that they are trying to increase the ratings in this way. To increase the popularity of F1 in America. Anyway, I don’t like to be a part of it,” Verstappen told ABtalks.

With this, Verstappen actually confirms Ricciardo’s words. That they want to show the world the incredible rivalry between drivers, which often doesn’t even exist. Fans on social media are also accusing Netflix of creating artificial drama.

That the creators of Drive to Survive are creating this content to fit their story. Verstappen said something similar and decided not to give Netflix a single statement and refused to participate. Then, in his words, there would be nothing to show.

“I’m not the kind of person who likes to do a dramatic show, I just want the facts and the real things that happen,” the Red Bull driver concluded.

Race Fans, Motorsport