Overview
- The release lands nine days before the 2026 Australian Grand Prix, maintaining the series’ pre-season launch window.
- Season 8 revisits the 2025 title fight, highlighting Max Verstappen’s late surge and Lando Norris’s two-point clincher in Abu Dhabi.
- Christian Horner’s mid-summer dismissal from Red Bull and its repercussions are presented as a central narrative thread.
- Lewis Hamilton’s tough first year with Ferrari features alongside rookie storylines for Kimi Antonelli, Isack Hadjar, Ollie Bearman and Jack Doohan.
- Box to Box Films is reported to produce again, with Netflix crews embedded throughout 2025 and episode-level details still to be announced.