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I've been watching Netflix's "Drive to Survive." One of the most frustrating aspects of it is the team will talk about strategy, but will never say what their s

I've been watching Netflix's "Drive to Survive." One of the most frustrating aspects of it is the team will talk about strategy, but will never say what their strategy is. They'll say the car needs improvement, then say the car is improved, but never say what they did to improve it. They'll say they need to negotiate to get driver X, but never give any hint over what the negotiations were. Watch it for a while, and you'll see. You never get any real information.

squigz 1y ago
Drive To Survive is a drama series. It's not really meant for technical information.
delta_p_delta_x 1y ago
Anyone who's watched even one series of actual F1 content would quickly understand that the narrative woven in DTS ranges from exaggerated to almost fictional and dramatised for the sake of the cameras. DTS is only really useful in generating memes like Guenther Steiner's 'foksmash' and the Aldi catalogue, Guenther Steiner and Mattia Binotto in the Dolomites, Guenther Steiner and 'hygiene'—no, sorry, it's 'Hi, Gene'. You get the idea. There are so many more actually useful resources like most of the pre- and post-race media pens and press conferences, Ted's Notebook on Sky F1, F1TV's technical deep dives, the r/f1technical subreddit, and even each team's own marketing material and press releases. Team strategy and car development is generally not openly discussed anywhere, because they're critical to the teams' performance during the races. There are people who have pieced together information though, and you'll never see this sort of investigative analysis on DTS.
dralley 1y ago
Drive to Survive isn't that type of show. It's about the characters and drama, not the racing.
basisword 1y ago
That's because DTS is for people who don't watch the sport. To get them interested. If you've watched the sport for any significant length of time DTS is basically hell on earth to watch. They even go as far as showing footage in the wrong order (turn 1, turn 12, turn 4) to fit their narrative. There are great technical writers that do pretty in depth analysis (including drawings) of all upgrades teams bring to their cars. I don't know the names off hand but I've seen these as far back as the early 00's. Strategy is covered pretty well on the live broadcast too by ex-strategy engineers.

squigz 1y ago

Drive To Survive is a drama series. It's not really meant for technical information.

delta_p_delta_x 1y ago

Anyone who's watched even one series of actual F1 content would quickly understand that the narrative woven in DTS ranges from exaggerated to almost fictional and dramatised for the sake of the cameras. DTS is only really useful in generating memes like Guenther Steiner's 'foksmash' and the Aldi catalogue, Guenther Steiner and Mattia Binotto in the Dolomites, Guenther Steiner and 'hygiene'—no, sorry, it's 'Hi, Gene'. You get the idea. There are so many more actually useful resources like most of the pre- and post-race media pens and press conferences, Ted's Notebook on Sky F1, F1TV's technical deep dives, the r/f1technical subreddit, and even each team's own marketing material and press releases. Team strategy and car development is generally not openly discussed anywhere, because they're critical to the teams' performance during the races. There are people who have pieced together information though, and you'll never see this sort of investigative analysis on DTS.

dralley 1y ago

Drive to Survive isn't that type of show. It's about the characters and drama, not the racing.

basisword 1y ago

That's because DTS is for people who don't watch the sport. To get them interested. If you've watched the sport for any significant length of time DTS is basically hell on earth to watch. They even go as far as showing footage in the wrong order (turn 1, turn 12, turn 4) to fit their narrative. There are great technical writers that do pretty in depth analysis (including drawings) of all upgrades teams bring to their cars. I don't know the names off hand but I've seen these as far back as the early 00's. Strategy is covered pretty well on the live broadcast too by ex-strategy engineers.