Decidedly, Netflix confirms all its interest in documentary series dedicated to sport. This Thursday, the streaming platform has indeed formalized a release date for season 5 of Drive to Survive, an original creation that has revived interest in Formula 1, especially among young people.
It is therefore from February 24 that it will be available. A short trailer for this sequel was immediately released. But this sporting ambition does not stop there. We spotted three other recent announcements from the service that testify to this, relating to tennis, rugby, and cycling.
New rules, same desire to win.
Formula 1: Drivers of their destiny season 5, February 24. pic.twitter.com/OUWuMnIQwS
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A series on the Six Nations tournament
— Netflix France (@NetflixFR) January 12, 2023
The announcement should appeal to all rugby fans. This Thursday, Netflix announced the release of a documentary dedicated to the Six Nations Tournament, this legendary competition between France, Italy, Wales, England, Scotland, and Ireland.
It is in 2024 that the service will offer this new original creation which will be overseen by the producers of the series. Formula 1: Drivers of their destiny. We can therefore expect an intimate view of this spectacular sport.
Break Point: tennis in the spotlight
The docu-series dedicated to tennis is available from this Friday on Netflix. The synopsis of break point looks extremely promising and tells us: “For an entire year, the Break Point team accompanied these big names in tennis around the world on the occasion of the four Grand Slams and the ATP and WTA circuits, to give us this intimate portrait of their daily lives. »
We can measure the extent of the work, and the pressure felt by these men and women. While some shots seem instinctive, it is not and it all depends on a lot of training and tactical preparation.
A documentary series on the Tour de France
Once the most popular sport in France, cycling is today sometimes mistakenly seen as a discipline that has gone out of fashion among the younger generations. This is precisely what the organizers of the mythical Tour de France race intend to break by offering a documentary series. Produced jointly by the teams of Netflix and France Télévisions, it will follow behind the scenes of the Great Loop.
We already know that it will be composed of 8 episodes of 45 minutes and will focus on 8 major professional teams: Ineos Grenadiers, Team Jumbo-Visma and Team Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl, AG2R Citroën Team, Alpecin-Fenix , BORA-hansgrohe, EF Education-EasyPost, and Groupama-FDJ. The broadcast is scheduled for the first half of 2023, without further details to date.
