---
title: "Netflix’s Formula 1: Drive to Survive Season 4 Is Coming in 2022"
description: "It's now official."
date: "2021-08-26"
modified: "2021-08-26"
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  - name: "Hazel Southwell"
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url: "https://www.thedrive.com/accelerator/42148/netflixs-formula-1-drive-to-survive-season-4-is-coming-in-2022"
categories:
  - "F1"
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---

# Netflix’s Formula 1: Drive to Survive Season 4 Is Coming in 2022

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There's a lot of secrecy in Formula One. From teams obsessively hiding whatever they're doing with their aero bits and oil compounds, to even the [tire supplier](<https://www.thedrive.com/accelerator/40963/why-pirellis-f1-tires-kept-exploding-at-the-azerbaijan-grand-prix>) trying to stop them from poking into their innards too much. This might make F1 a strange place for reality TV cameras, but it appears that's not actually the case. Today, F1 confirmed that it's now taping Netflix's *Formula 1:* *Drive to Survive* Season 4, which, as we already know, has been one of the sport's most successful moves ever.

The series will be released in 2022, presumably in a similar early-year slot to its predecessors, before F1 testing commences for the new season. Executive producer James Gay-Rees had actually confirmed that there will be at[ least seasons 4 and 5](<https://wtf1.com/post/therell-be-at-least-two-more-series-of-netflixs-drive-to-survive/>) earlier this year on a podcast.

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**McLaren**

Netflix's cameras have been obvious in the paddock this year and drivers have repeatedly let it slip about filming, including the exquisitely awkward McLaren drivers [interrupting their own horrific vibes](<https://youtu.be/pCYlYGFdMQY?t=130>) to proclaim that they'll probably be the main stars.

The popular series is credited with getting F1 back in front of millions of new fans, as well as re-attracting old ones who'd slipped away as TV deals increasingly slid behind paywalls. According to reports earlier this year, F1 is on course to have a billion fans by 2022, and that's in no small part because of Netflix.

https://twitter.com/_/status/1430818705164877824

Despite criticism about some of the heavy dramatization—and strange interpretations of events—from curmudgeonly old F1 stalwarts like [this writer](<https://www.thedrive.com/accelerator/39902/netflixs-formula-1-drive-to-survive-season-three-review-who-is-this-actually-for>), the way Netflix has shown a more human side of a highly technological sport has been commendable.

Other series have all followed now, Formula 2's [*Chasing The Dream*](<https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/article.watch-the-new-f2-chasing-the-dream-documentary-on-f1-tv.4CcF0mYxxrwH2WIU7joXr6.html>) is, appropriately, a junior version of DTS and all-female W Series has released its own multi-part documentary called [*Driven*](<https://wseries.com/w-hub/w-series-driven/>). Heck, even NASCAR is [going there](<https://jalopnik.com/nascar-is-getting-its-own-documentary-series-now-1847263850>). Formula E's made multiple behind-the-scenes efforts, including [a feature film](<https://www.fiaformulae.com/en/watch/andwegogreen>) that continues to haunt me. But, nothing's ever quite hit the stratospheric popularity, and drama, of *Drive to Survive.*

Related to the drama and some good news for Red Bull fans; Netflix embedding with a team has famously somehow coincided with its messiest weekends. Ahead of the Belgian Grand Prix, looks like it's [picked Mercedes](<https://twitter.com/FredericFerret/status/1430854281536671746>)...

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## Author
Hazel is a writer specializing in electric vehicles and new fuel and powertrain technologies. She’s covered tech in motorsport since the inception of Formula E and has been a journalist for 17 years.

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