The melodrama of the 2024 F1 season -- both on and off the track -- comes back to bite in the latest installment of the hit Netflix show.

Netflix’s flagship sports docu-series F1: Drive to Survive will return for an eighth season. According to multiple persons attached to the project and the film crew spotted amongst the paddock in the pitlane for the Australian Grand Prix, we know that season 8 is a go.

Sports fans love an underdog story. But what happens when the sport itself becomes the underdog? That was the position that Formula One found itself in the late 2010s, as the motor sport – which had been running for nearly 70 years – fell towards the back of the pack.