Max Verstappen

Verstappen HITS OUT at Netflix show over title fight depiction

Sam Cook Tuesday 11 March 2025 01:00

Max Verstappen has thrown some shade at Netflix's Drive to Survive over the way he was portrayed in the new season of the show.

The new season dropped on the streaming giant's platform last week, with a much anticipated look back on a 2024 season which included Christian Horner's off-track drama and Lewis Hamilton's move to Ferrari.

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Drive to Survive also focused on the on-track championship battle between Verstappen and Britain's Lando Norris, with Red Bull's decline in performance allowing McLaren into both championship fights.

While McLaren ended up toppling Red Bull and winning the constructors' title, Verstappen managed to cling on to secure his fourth drivers' championship title, with Norris only managing to win four races in a season in which McLaren looked to have the fastest car for large periods.

Max Verstappen won the 2024 world championship

McLaren won the 2024 constructors' championship

Verstappen and Norris' championship fight

He beat Verstappen to the victory following a fortunately-timed safety car for the McLaren team, which allowed Norris to get in and out of the pits and still maintain his lead.

Drive to Survive covered the drama of the race in full, and showed Verstappen and Red Bull rather angered and disappointed by the result, despite their hefty lead in the championship standings at that point.

Now, Verstappen himself has pointed to the fact that it may have been slightly dramatised, suggesting he had the 'best time' after Norris' victory around the Miami International Autodrome.

"Apparently I was very upset after Miami," the Dutchman said on a live stream with his Team Redline sim racing team. "I literally had the best time ever on Sunday night, so I don't know if I was upset."

Verstappen has long been critical of the Drive to Survive programme's dramatisation of key events, with the show having been filming driver's lives since the 2018 season.