What is Formula 1: Drive to Survive about?
Drivers, managers and team owners live life in the fast lane — both on and off the track — during each cutthroat season of Formula 1 racing.
Formula 1: Drive to Survive (2019)
Witness the cutthroat world of Formula 1, where high-octane races and gritty rivalries unfold at a relentless pace.
Suspenseful and epic. A full-attention watch at full speed. Emotionally it is heavy. Based on true events.
Formula 1: Drive to Survive parents guide
Of what we could confirm, nothing runs past a TV-MA: some violence and some strong language.
- Scare
- Not scary
- Jump scares
- None noted
- Gore
- No gore
- Violence
- Some violence
- Some fighting or peril.
- Sex and nudity
- None flagged
- It is rated TV-MA, so treat our zero as unconfirmed.
- Language
- Moderate
- Some strong profanity, a few f-words.
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Cast and crew
Created byJames Gay-Rees
StarringMax Verstappen, Lewis Hamilton, Charles Leclerc, George Russell, Carlos Sainz Jr., Nico Hülkenberg
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