McLaren’s Lando Norris blasts ‘Drive to Survive’ and defends Max Verstappen 

Hours before he won the season-opening Formula One Australian Grand Prix, British driver Lando Norris became another name to come out against the ‘fabricated nonsense’ of the Netflix series ‘Drive to Survive’, a show that shows the story of an F1 season and has seen large scale success, especially in Northern America.
Norris joined a long l of people who have had issues with ‘Box to Box Entertainment, the company that produces the show. The McLaren Mercedes driver brought out a longstanding accusation made at the company of sensationalising rivalries and creating false narratives.
“They need to show the truth about people more,” he said. “I’m not a fan of fake stuff. I want facts, I don’t want made-up scripts and fabricated nonsense, which there is. The portrayal of Max and how we were against each other so much. They don’t need to create.
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“There’s drama, they can just show the facts of the drama. They don’t need to do anything more than that. They need to come back to reality a bit more, it’s drifted too far away,” said Norris after qualification.
The Drive to Survive season that Norris talked about was focusing primarily on his and four-time World Champion Max Verstappen’s rivalry last season. In one of the instances, when Norris won his first race of the season in Miami, producers took footage of an angry Verstappen from the Dutch GP to make it look like a close race when in reality, Norris had won comfortably.
“To portray someone in an incorrect way, people are going to have their opinions of that incorrect person, it’s almost lying in some ways,” he said.
“I just don’t think that’s correct. I don’t think you can paint someone in the wrong picture when it’s not the truth. I don’t think it’s fair for anyone in the world, especially as it has such a big following and so many people love it, people believe what they see,” said Norris.
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