Move over Formula 1 and Drive to Survive, here comes NASCAR with it’s own docuseries.
NASCAR: Full Speed, a behind-the-scenes look at the Cup Series—with a little bit of Hollywood undoubtedly thrown in to spice things up—kicks off its first season on Netflix beginning on January 30.
Netflix has released a one-minute trailer, and it’s already got us pumped for the NASCAR season.
The series is in the can and will include five 45-minute episodes covering the 2023 NASCAR Cup Series playoffs. It will focus on nine drivers and their quest for the 2023 championship: Ryan Blaney, William Byron, Ross Chastain, Denny Hamlin, Bubba Wallace, Kyle Larson, Christopher Bell, Joey Logano, and Tyler Reddick.
And before fans get ready to bash the series as something that will just be an overblown, over-dramatized Hollywood production, note that Dale Earnhardt Jr. is an executive producer on the project.
Earnhardt wouldn’t let Hollywood get in the way of what is already a pretty good story, would he?
Count us in.
Mike Pryson covered auto racing for the Jackson (Mich.) Citizen Patriot and MLive Media Group from 1991 until joining Autoweek in 2011. He won several Michigan Associated Press and national Associated Press Sports Editors awards for auto racing coverage and was named the 2000 Michigan Auto Racing Fan Club’s Michigan Motorsports Writer of the Year. A Michigan native, Mike spent three years after college working in southwest Florida before realizing that the land of Disney and endless summer was no match for the challenge of freezing rain, potholes and long, cold winters in the Motor City.
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