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Lando Norris is getting the solo documentary treatment, and Prime Video wants viewers to see it as more than another paddock reality show. The streamer has commissioned a three-part series, currently carrying the working title “Lando,” built around the reigning Formula 1 World Champion’s life away from the cockpit. It’s set to launch globally in 2027.
Here’s the detail that makes this more interesting than routine: the show is being produced by Box to Box Films, the same London outfit that makes Formula 1: Drive to Survive for Netflix. The executive producers on the Norris project are Tom Keeling, Warren Smith and Jon Smith, with Clare Little serving as series producer and Ben Phethean directing. That means one production company now has cameras inside the same garages, motorhomes and simulator rigs, filming two separate flagship shows for two competing streamers, about the same sport, the same season, and in Norris’s case, arguably the same guy.
The announcement landed at the Edinburgh TV Festival, where Prime Video’s UK and Ireland team laid out more of the plan, and it arrives just days after Netflix confirmed a ninth season of Drive to Survive for the 2027 championship. Box to Box, in other words, just got commissioned twice in the same week by two different platforms covering the same grid.
Drive to Survive built its audience on ensemble drama: rivalries, radio-message editing, and a dozen storylines braided across a season. A single-driver character study is a different animal, closer to the treatment Ayrton Senna got in the 2010 documentary Senna than anything Netflix has produced about the current grid. Hollywood has been circling motorsport hard enough lately that a solo F1 documentary barely raises an eyebrow; the same appetite is what’s pushing a Monaco heist prequel into development and running into the same production problems that racing films keep hitting.
Norris says the cameras have been “filming for a while already,” and that he’s been closely involved in shaping the project rather than just showing up for interviews. The timing lines up with where his career sits: the 26-year-old McLaren driver won last year’s Drivers’ Championship, his first title, and heads into the 2027 launch window with 13 career race wins and 48 podium finishes on his résumé. The series will track him across a single summer, ending around his 27th birthday, rather than trying to cover an entire season.
None of this touches how you actually watch a Grand Prix. Prime Video’s documentary deal is separate from F1’s live broadcast contracts, which in the U.S. still sit with ESPN and in the UK are split between Sky and Channel 4. What Amazon is buying here is access and intellectual property, not race-day rights, and it’s the latest sign of how much streaming money has flowed into Formula 1 since Liberty Media took over the series and turned Drive to Survive into a pipeline for new fans. Disney has been chasing similar territory, recently extending its own F1 partnership through 2028, and Norris’s own paddock is full of drivers experimenting with outside ventures, from Fernando Alonso’s hand in designing his own road-going Aston Martin to the growing list of driver-branded projects up and down the grid.
Whether “Lando” ends up revealing much depends on how far Prime Video lets the cameras go past the curated version fans already get from Norris’s own social feeds, and on whether Box to Box can make a solo character study feel different from the ensemble show it already produces for a rival streamer. Norris has had a bumpy stretch on track this season, and a documentary willing to sit inside the pressure of defending a title, rather than just replaying a highlight reel, is the version worth watching for. The working title may not survive to launch, but the bigger story here is what it says about Formula 1’s media business: its biggest stars are now valuable enough that two competing streamers can build separate shows around the same paddock without stepping on each other’s rights.
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