Netflix Drive to Survive: Most highly rated episodes of all time

Friday, 24 February 2023 at 10:09

Over half (53%) of Formula 1 fans polled claim that Netflix’s Drive to Survive series played a major role in attracting them to follow the sport.

Lucky for them, the popular series' fifth season premieres today, with Red Bull's World Champion Max Verstappen making his return to the series after his self-enforced hiatus last year.

Ahead of Season 5, Verstappen and Netflix have clearly made peace: "I sat together with them and I explained how I thought about it and what I thought went wrong in the past and it was actually a very good, quick little chat and we’ll try to improve from there."

To see what the new series has to compete with, Best Gambling Sites has used IMDb data to uncover the best and worst episodes of “Drive to Survive” so far.

Top 10 highest-rated Drive to Survive episodes:

Ranking	Episode Title	Season	Rating [Out of 10]
1.	Man On Fire	Season 3, Episode 9	9.4
2.	Raging Bulls	Season 2, Episode 6	8.7
3.	The Comeback Kid	Season 3, Episode 6	8.5
4.	Redemption	Season 1, Episode 3	8.3
5.=	Checkered Flag	Season 2, Episode 10	8.2
5. =	Dark Days	Season 2, Episode 4	8.2
6. =	The Next Generation	Season 1, Episode 8	8.1
6. =	The Art of War	Season 1, Episode 4	8.1
7.	Nobody’s Fool	Season 3, Episode 3	8.0
8. =	Boiling Point	Season 2, Episode 2	7.9
8.=	Great Expectations	Season 2, Episode 5	7.9
9.=	All or Nothing	Season 1, Episode 6	7.8
9.=	All to Play for	Season 1, Episode 1	7.8
9.=	Hard Racing	Season 4, Episode 10	7.8
9.=	Seeing Red	Season 2, Episode 7	7.8
9.=	Back on Track	Season 3, Episode 2	7.8
10.=	Crossing the Line	Season 1, Episode 10	7.7
10.=	The King of Spain	Season 1, Episode 2	7.7
10.=	Musical Chairs	Season 2, Episode 8	7.7
10.=	Dog Fight	Season 2, Episode 3	7.7

*= Represents values with identical ratings.

Man on Fire = IMDb rating 9.4/10

Man of Fire takes the crown as the highest-rated “Formula 1: Drive to Survive” episode with a near perfect score of 9.4/10. For fans of Formula 1, it will be clear why this episode has topped the charts - following the action at 2020’s Bahrain Grand Prix, viewers witnessed Haas team driver, Romain Grosjean, lose control of his car and collided with the fence barricade.

The crash caused the race car to immediately engulf in flames whilst Grosjean was still stuck inside. Three intense minutes later, viewers are able to Grosjean miraculously escape with only minor burns on his hands and feet.

Raging Bulls = IMDb rating 8.7/10

No episode details the difficulty Formula 1 Drivers face in keeping their seats than Raging Bulls. Taking the second spot with a 8.7/10 rating, this episode follows the journey of new Red Bull driver, Alex Albon, who takes the place of Pierre Gasly as he is demoted to sister-team, Scuderia AlphaTauri mid-way through the 2019 season.

This episode also sensitively mourns the loss of Formula 2 driver Anthoine Hubert, who fatally crashed during the 2019 Belgium Grand Prix.

The Comeback Kid = 8.5/10

After being dropped from Red Bull mid-season for Alex Albon, Pierre Gasly starts the 2020 season as the driver for Scuderia AlphaTauri, which was also Albon’s priory seat.

This interchange is the main narrative for this episode as Gasly fights to prove his worth to Red Bull’s team principal, Christian Homer, who makes his opinion on the situation very clear.

Lowest-Rated Drive to Survive Episodes:

Ranking	Episode Title	Season	Rating [Out of 10]
40.	Growing Pains	Season 4, Episode 7	6.7
39.	Tipping Point	Season 4, Episode 3	6.8
39.=	A Mountain to Climb	Season 4, Episode 4	6.8

Drive to Survive study Methodology:

Scams.info sought to uncover the best and worst episodes of Netflix's docuseries “Formula 1: Drive to Survive”.
To do this, IMDb data was scraped from user reviews and ratings from each episode: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8289930/episodes?season=1
The results were sorted by highest to lowest rating, using the top 10 highest rated and 2 lowest rated as the working datasets.
The data was recorded on 6/2/2023 and is accurate as of then.

The full press release and dataset used throughout this study can be found here.