Our honest thoughts on Drive to Survive: Season 8
P1 with Matt and Tommy
Stak
4.9 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 26 February 2026
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
We’ve seen the brand new series of Drive to Survive and have PLENTY of opinions! And no, not just on how many times Tommy was featured instead of Matt.
So let’s break down the good, the bad and the Zach Brown radio messages of the brand new season!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everybody and welcome back to the P1 podcast with Matt and Tommy. |
| 0:10.2 | It's Drive to Survive edition, Season 8. Season 8, Tommy. I remember when it first came out. |
| 0:18.7 | I sound so old. But we have been there throughout the entirety of, well, the Drive to Survive seasons, the F1 seasons. And we are, we're well into the just knowing what Drive to Survive is all about. So we're doing, as always, our thoughts on what we thought of DTS, how we felt it landed, some questions from you |
| 0:39.8 | guys, how you feeling about it? I'm feeling good, yeah, we've watched all eight episodes, |
| 0:47.2 | not 10 this year, which I'm sure we'll get into, which is quite interesting. And yeah, |
| 0:52.6 | excited to dive into it, because I've certainly got some opinions on it which is I'm sure going to be lovely. |
| 0:59.4 | We love Tommy opinions. I've also got opinions as well. |
| 1:03.7 | And right, of course. |
| 1:04.7 | So we, you might be wondering, we've had an early preview and seen all of the episodes already. |
| 1:10.6 | So if you're, if you haven't watched it yet, you know, we'll try and not spoil things. But yeah, we're not going to play by play the entire episodes of everything. But yeah, we'll try not spoil things, but also Landon Morris is World Champion. So really sorry about that. Oh, the people that save it to watch it later. The fact there are actually people out there that don't watch the real season so that they don't get spoiled for Drive to Survive is one way of watching it for sure. |
| 1:34.1 | So let's start where we will always begin. |
| 1:37.0 | Was it any good? |
| 1:38.9 | That's the question. |
| 1:39.9 | Everybody wants to know. |
| 1:41.6 | Was DTS season eight worth it? |
| 1:44.3 | Look, how I am going to answer this question is that I am, I always enjoy Drive to |
| 1:49.5 | survive to a base level because I love Formula One. |
| 1:53.2 | And my, because everybody watches it differently, right, depending on how much you watch Formula |
| 1:58.2 | 1, how much you love it, how much you want to know about it. |
| 2:00.4 | For me, I watch DTS because I want the behind the scene stuff. I want the things I haven't seen. I enjoyed it to a level, yes. Did I think it was one of the best seasons that they've done? No. I think that the eight episodes I would have liked to have had 10. |
| 2:18.2 | I don't know. |
| 2:18.6 | I felt like eight was like, oh, it's over. |
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