The Next Season Of ‘Formula 1: Drive to Survive’ Is Dropping Next Week

• Netflix has released the official trailer for Drive to Survive season 8, which is set to make its debut on February 27.
• The season will chart the course of the 2025 Formula 1 racing year that just passed, which featured a lengthy battle between Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri for the overall title.
• Beyond the carnage on the track, Drive to Survive season 8 also looks set to explore the off-track drama surrounding the former principal of Red Bull Racing, Christian Horner.

Netflix has just fired up the engines on Formula 1: Drive To Survive season 8 and, judging by the trailer alone, the 2025 racing year was just as much about the drama off the track as it was on the track.

The latest season is set to land on February 27, and the big hook is a three-way title scrap between Red Bull’s Max Verstappen and McLaren’s Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri.

McLaren was dominant for most of the season, winning the 2025 Formula 1 Constructors’ Championship at the Singapore Grand Prix with six races left on the calendar, but despite Norris and Piastri solidly leading the World Drivers’ Championship, Verstappen is never one to be counted out.

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Beyond the title fight, season 8 dives into the rookie invasion as a whole crop of young drivers arrives at once, which means half the grid is learning the tracks while the other half is trying not to lose their seats to them. As a result, we’re guaranteed to get Drive To Survive at its peak, with nervous team principals, driver confidence bordering on delusion, and radio messages that probably weren’t meant for television.

Perhaps the most amusing detail of the trailer (apart from the near-naked George Russell jump scare at 1:26) is Mercedes’ Kimi Antonelli being interviewed about passing his driving test, where he explains, “going at 30kp/h is boring.”

An uninteresting comment on the face of it, but one that takes on a different light in the context of last week, when the 2025 rookie crashed his £180,000 (~AU$346,000) Mercedes-AMG GT 63 PRO Motorsport Collectors’ Edition company car on public roads after just a few days of getting the keys. Thankfully, no one was hurt in the incident, but a reminder that freeways and racetracks are very different environments.

Season 8 of Drive to Survive will also deliver on the driver-market drama bubbling away in the background, which, as every fan knows, is the real currency of Formula 1. If previous seasons were about rivalries, this one looks more like instability, promising momentum swings, reputation wobbles, and a cast of characters where nobody seems entirely comfortable.