(Miami) Carried by a record audience for the last season of its series Drive to Survive on Formula 1, the giant of streaming Netflix will return for a fifth and sixth season, video platform and World Championship promoter Formula One announced on Thursday.
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“The series has grown in popularity over time, season 4 (released in March, editor’s note), reached the widest audience to date, entering the Top 10 weekly in 56 countries,” explained the two organizations in a joint press release.
Since the 2018 season, Netflix, known for not disclosing its audiences, has been filming behind the scenes of the premier category of motorsport.
During the last season, the documentary series notably followed the intense fight for the title between the British Lewis Hamilton and the Dutch Verstappen, even if the latter refused interviews to Netflix, believing that the series made a point of false rivalries. .
Verstappen is not alone in criticizing the series: his Red Bull teammate Sergio Pérez believes that the last season “probably went too far” in the dramatization of F1.
“I really thought they had the best season in Formula 1 (to work on) and I feel like they probably missed some of the story in the way they presented it,” he said. reacted the Mexican to the American site ESPN. Enough to make Netflix react in the future?