woohoo wrote: ↑Tue Mar 03, 2020 2:49 pm
Having seen the whole lot, I am not only disappointed, but also a tad dismayed by the series.
The first episode is an intro to an intro to an intro and so on. So lest just forget it.
The rest of it, it seems that the producer has focused more in presenting a well polished reality show with beautiful camera angles, sound bite quotes and drama than telling any kind of story, F1 or otherwise.
Apart from the Gasly/Albon story it felt they just dropped "the story" of each episode halfway.
So, Mercedes lost Lauda, and had a terrible race in Germany. What about their comeback? -not told.
Haas has problems developing a car, and drivers hit each other in Silverstone - then what happened?
Williams does not have a car ready for the first test, but it eventually arrives for the test, and Paddy is fired - and then what?
Even such a small thing such as, in the Williams episode someone says "these new mirrors are the winner" and Claire laughs. In reality Williams had to remove the mirrors before arriving in Australia. Why is this not mentioned, it would be a real good point to make to drive home the disfunction in the team before the season ?
Some drivers and teams are completely absent from any of the episodes, and even if they are, their stories are not told very well.
And it seems only drivers and team managers matter. Apart from the Williams debacle, there nothing about the technical aspects, or the strategy or anything like that. How about an episode reviewing a winning / losing tire strategy? How about a segment with Adrian Newey about aerodynamics vs. engine power? There is so much that could have been covered, instead we get to see the Horner household eating breakfast.
As others have already mentioned, there is a lot of over dramatisation and over editing (fake sound effects, clips from various races put together etc.) which means it can no longer be called a documentary but is just a collection of soap.
My dismay comes from the fact that Netflix had access t a world that is hidden far far away, and yet chose to produce this utter tripe of a soap opera of style over substance.
And the American style editing is just to annoying to stomach.