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Once upon a time you couldn't film anything at an F1 race. Even wobbly clips taken from the stands would get removed from YouTube. There were TV rights to protect! But now Netflix films behind the scenes at races. Every year just before the season starts comes Drive to Survive, a documentary series about the previous year's F1. It's supposed to to have led to many new people watching, particularly the young.
One strange thing is how little motor racing they show. There are interviews with drivers and pundits, and clips of team discussions, but you see more of drivers going to the grid and saying "radio check" than you do of actual racing. They're focussing on the people and the emotional highs and lows, not the cars on track. Although the whole sport is focussed on winning races, they've spotted that the really remarkable part is how people deal with their impossible high pressure position where almost everyone fails to win.
At the beginning the big teams weren't much interested in taking part, so the filming had to concentrate on small teams, making a star of Guenther Steiner who ran Haas. He was born in Italy, speaks German and swears prolifically in English. He was filmed saying in an interview "Last year, for two points, I would have fucked the whole paddock" and when a colleague pointed out that he shouldn't swear on live TV, he looked puzzled, then replied "I said I would have HUGGED the whole paddock!" Now Steiner has been let go, but as he was there all last year, he'll presumably be in the TV show again.