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Jeremy Clarkson Blames Netflix And ‘Drive To Survive’ For Making Formula One Drivers Boring

The hit Netflix show about Grand Prix life is now in its seventh season.

Jeremy Clarkson, who helmed the BBC’s global hit motoring show Top Gear then The Grand Tour on Amazon Prime, wrote in The Sun newspaper that the glamour that used to go along with the life of a Formula One racing driver now belongs to the past. Clarkson wrote that this doesn’t happen in any other sport, and cited the Australian Grand Prix last weekend when neither Fernando Alonso nor Max Verstappen would express themselves fully, knowing every word was being captured by the Netflix crew for the hit series Drive to Survive. Drive to Survive is now in its seventh season, and has spawned a string of similarly intimate shows about the world of sport, including Break Point about Grand Slam level tennis and Full Swing about what goes on behind the scenes of professional golf.

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