Netflix’s biopic series Senna F1 looks stunning in this fast-moving first trailer
Ayrton Senna was one of the greatest drivers of all time, and Netflix is coming Senna is a limited series that follows his life and most famous races. Judging from the recently released official teaser trailer (below), the race reconstructions will make you feel like you’re in the cockpit as Senna appears to laugh at the laws of physics.
Senna died at the age of 34 after a horrific accident at the 1994 San Marino Gran Prix, cutting short a truly remarkable career: he won the Formula 1 World Drivers’ Championship three times (in 1988, 1990 and 1991), won 41 Grands Prix and held the record for most pole positions (65), a record that would not be broken until long after his death.
What does Netflix’s Senna contain?
The Netflix biopic series will run for six episodes and will focus on Senna’s arrival in Britain to compete in Formula Ford and his rise to becoming a Formula 1 driver. The trailer shows him competing in the 1991 Brazilian Grand Prix, a race in which he took his first F1 victory despite mechanical problems in the closing laps, and it also flashes back to an earlier part of his career – so early that he gets into trouble at times. -karts, not racing cars.
This isn’t the first time Senna’s story has been adapted into a film; there was a documentary in 2010, also mentioned Senna which we recommended watching in May 2023. But Netflix’s dramatization was created in collaboration with Senna’s family and the company Senna Brands, which the family owns to manage his estate and which also sends money to the Ayrton Senna Institute, which helps young Brazilians.
Senna is interesting not just because it’s a great story, but because it’s part of a broader collaboration between Netflix and Latin American production companies: Senna is one of the largest productions in the country’s history and uses an almost entirely Brazilian crew. Netflix has also invested in an adaptation of Gabriel García Márquez’s Nobel Prize winner One hundred years of lonelinessin an adaptation of the apocalyptic sci-fi graphic novel El Eternautaand in a third book adaptation, this time of an influential Mexican book Pedro Paramo.