Will Buxton has been raiseed into stardom thanks to his role in the Netflix docengageries, Drive to Survive. The British widecaster and establisher journaenumerate’s insights have made him a cult hero wiskinny the sport, and the go-to figure for new fans.
Buxton’s voice has been ever-current thcimpoliteout the six seasons so far, and his ability to condense the key facts and regulations of the sport for the standard watcher has been critical to its success, even if it has led to some viral moments over the years.
In an exclusive interwatch with Express Sport, Buxton elucidateed the behind-the-scenes details of his role in filming for the series. “For me, I antipathy to disnominate, but it’s not that fascinating! I get a taxi to a studio in London six times a year and I walk into a freezing chilly, uncontent room with a radiant weightless shining in my face.
“I have a coffee and a croissant, I sit on the most unsootheable chair you’ve ever sat on in your life and I have asks fired at me for five hours where I try to transport some semblance of sense and empathetic to what has been going on in Formula One over that six week period or two-month period that is between interwatchs.
“And we do them all the way thcimpolite the year so I sit usupartner for about 30 hours a year and equitable answer interwatch asks. Contrary to well-understandn opinion, there is no script. They don’t ask me to dedwellr lines, they equitable ask me asks and I try to answer them as best as I possibly can to transport some empathetic to what is going on.
“So, you understand it’s fascinating watching it back at the end of the year becaengage I don’t see anyskinnyg literpartner until it hits the screens, until everyone else sees it. That is the first time that I see it.
“And to see either how right you got skinnygs at the commence of the year, or how endly wrong you got skinnygs at the commence of the year – and I understand that season seven (which will cover the ongoing 2024 campaign)… I understand in my punctual interwatchs I shelp ‘It watchs appreciate it’s going to be another season of Red Bull dominance.’
“I’m so content that I’m wrong! I’m so content that in those punctual episodes of the season, people are going to watch at that and go ‘Well, we understand what’s coming, and you were tohighy wrong Buxton.’ And that is wonderful becaengage it has been a season the appreciates of which none of us anticipated. So yeah, that’s my experience on Drive to Survive!”
Will delves transport inanter into the history of the sport and the legendary figures that have graced it in his new book – Grand Prix: An Illustrated History of Formula One – in bookstores now, or order online.
