Review: F1 Drive to Survive – Season 5 abandons winning formula
Previous seasons of Netflix’s hit F1 series Drive to Survive have been massively successful – can Season 5 do the same?
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With six seasons of Drive to Survive now made, there’s plenty to get your teeth into – we select the very best episodes
Live updates from pre-season testing ahead of the 2023 F1 season, including full testing schedule, driver lineups and the latest updates from the pitwall
Honda branding is back on the Red Bull F1 engine cover and the company is down as a power unit supplier for 2026. But there’s no guarantee that it will continue, despite plenty of interest from other teams, writes Chris Medland
Want to know what’s in Netflix’s F1: Drive to Survive Season 5? Check out our preview below
There are just days to go until the release date of Formula 1 Drive to Survive Season 5. Here’s the latest news on the new Netflix series, including what’s in it
Backmarker battles can provide just as much F1 entertainment as the fights at the front, so why don’t the drivers get championship points? Here’s how a new system could reward the top 18 finishers — and give a more accurate ranking
A discreet new cooling duct on Ferrari’s 2023 F1 car could shift turbulent air up and away from the sidepods and floor. It’s one of the clever innovations spotted by Kyle Forster on the team’s new SF23 title challenger
Alpine finished last year as best of the rest in F1, but can’t rest on its laurels as it aims to fight for podiums by 2024. “We’ve got to develop at a higher rate than every other team,” says boss Otmar Szafnauer
Previous seasons of Netflix’s hit F1 series Drive to Survive have been massively successful – can Season 5 do the same?
With six seasons of Drive to Survive now made, there’s plenty to get your teeth into – we select the very best episodes
Live updates from pre-season testing ahead of the 2023 F1 season, including full testing schedule, driver lineups and the latest updates from the pitwall
Honda branding is back on the Red Bull F1 engine cover and the company is down as a power unit supplier for 2026. But there’s no guarantee that it will continue, despite plenty of interest from other teams, writes Chris Medland
Want to know what’s in Netflix’s F1: Drive to Survive Season 5? Check out our preview below
There are just days to go until the release date of Formula 1 Drive to Survive Season 5. Here’s the latest news on the new Netflix series, including what’s in it
Backmarker battles can provide just as much F1 entertainment as the fights at the front, so why don’t the drivers get championship points? Here’s how a new system could reward the top 18 finishers — and give a more accurate ranking
A discreet new cooling duct on Ferrari’s 2023 F1 car could shift turbulent air up and away from the sidepods and floor. It’s one of the clever innovations spotted by Kyle Forster on the team’s new SF23 title challenger
Alpine finished last year as best of the rest in F1, but can’t rest on its laurels as it aims to fight for podiums by 2024. “We’ve got to develop at a higher rate than every other team,” says boss Otmar Szafnauer
Mark Hughes weighs up an exceptional 2025 rookie class, dissecting four contrasting debut seasons to reveal who truly stood out the most
Mark Hughes revisits the race that gave McLaren team principal Andrea Stella a sleepless night ahead of this year’s Abu Dhabi Grand Prix: how victory in 2025 was forged from a Ferrari failure 15 years earlier
Mark Hughes explains how McLaren’s pre-planned lap-one swap and split-tyre strategy blunted Verstappen’s threat and laid the groundwork for Norris’s title-winning drive
IDEC Sport Silverstone 4 Hours 14/9/25 A home win for Jamie Chadwick capped a happy return for contemporary Le Mans Prototype racing to the UK, as the European Le Mans…
Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris worked together ahead of the 2025 Chinese GP, finding the pace that delivered a 1-2 finish, while Norris also prepared to attack his team-mate during the race. Brake issues denied him, says Mark Hughes but the F1 title duel is coming
Esteban Ocon’s Alpine stint ended at the 2024 Qatar GP, giving Jack Doohan a make-or-break F1 chance in Abu Dhabi. Elsewhere FIA boss Mohammed Ben Sulayem dismissed driver concerns and mechanics just wanted a kip: Chris Medland‘s paddock diary
Veteran broadcaster and F1 driver Martin Brundle has picked out the contender he’s been most impressed with this year
Alain Prost has given his view on Renault exiting F1 as an engine manufacturer
Mohammed Ben Sulayem’s has now been re-elected as FIA president, after a controversial first term. But how did he become the first non-European president in the FIA’s history?
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