Publication Date
2024
Abstract
This essay critically analyzes Netflix’s sports docuseries Formula 1: Drive to Survive. Netflix’s docuseries dramatizes Formula One, which is arguably the highest level of international motorsport. Through strategic portrayals of events in and surrounding the sport, Netflix creates an entertaining but incomplete narrative of different Formula One seasons. This analysis examines the sexism, racism, and classism that are not only present in Formula One, but which also undermine the docuseries. Formula One is known to be a male-dominated, primarily white, and economically elite sport. This essay evaluates the various features of Formula 1: Drive to Survive that perpetuate these traits and it demonstrates Netflix’s voluntary conforming to these ideologies.
Recommended Citation
Cushing, Grace
(2024)
"Sexism, Racism, and Classism in Netflix’s Docuseries Formula 1: Drive to Survive,"
Comm-entary: Vol. 20:
Iss.
1, Article 12.
Available at:
https://scholars.unh.edu/comm-entary/vol20/iss1/12