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McLaren boss Zak Brown has recently praised Netflix for their work. The Drive to Survive series was an absolute phenomenon in the world of motorsports.

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The series has catapulted the sports’ popularity to another level. USA and Asan countries have seen a wild growth over the years.

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DTS has been monumental according to McLaren CEO Zak Brown

DTS represented what goes on an F1 grid. The series includes various monologues, explanations, etc. from the team principals and drivers themselves. The series presents a detailed look into how a team copes with the pressure. The crashes, the transfers, the thrill, and almost every subject has been covered in detail. Though the series has received its fair share of criticism, the producers have done their job.

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Talking about how the documentary has been monumental by providing deep insights, McLaren‘s Zak said, “So there’s a lot of games that go on um on the track and off the track, I think Netflix has done a great job of exposing what goes on before the race starts.” 

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The rivalries and the mind games have indeed been a focal point for the series. To win the constructors’ or drivers’ championship, an on-track battle is not all that takes place.

Everybody wanted to be on TV according to Brown

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Talking about DTS’s impact on the sport, Brown further added, ” I think it’s been awesome for the sport. I think it really shown people what happens in our great sport. I think it at times it has created more tension with the teams but I think that’s a good thing. You know look at Abu Dhabi at the end of the year, that felt a little bit victim of everyone wanting to be on tv.”

“I think the race director couldn’t fully focus coz he had a couple of team bosses coming in to him. I think they wanted to be on TV a little bit too much.”

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Overall, whether negative or positive, the series has indeed had an effect on the sport as a whole. With an audience number increased, and several more Grand Prix’s later F1 seems to be doing really well.

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Khyati Yadav is an F1 writer at EssentiallySports. She is a Hospitality Graduate and a huge fan of Lando Norris. She believes that F1 as a sport deserves a lot more attention and is intrigued by the process that goes behind the making of a car and the hard work that goes into the setting up of any Grand Prix. When not working, she loves playing the guitar and tries to master various Hendrix and Mayer songs.

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