Track or treat: how a Netflix show gave millions a new passion for sport

A couple of years ago, my young son and I began watching the , a reality show that, over the course of 10 episodes, takes viewers behind the scenes of the previous year’s Formula One season. At the time, neither of us knew much about the sport. The British driver Lewis Hamilton had crossed over into mainstream celebrity. But who was he racing? Who ran their teams and made their cars? Where did they compete? The details, beyond the obvious ones – that there is a famous circuit in Monaco, that there is a team owned by Ferrari – escaped me. It seemed distant and alien – a circus going on far away.