New Supercars reality show based on Drive to Survive

Motorsport.com understands footage and interviews for the brand new present had been shot throughout final month’s Bathurst 1000.

There, quite a few drivers and staff personnel had been each tracked throughout the weekend and interviewed in one-on-one model.

That footage is then anticipated for use to supply a pilot episode that shall be shopped round to main TV networks and streaming providers, together with Netflix, Amazon and Stan.

The brand new present is being produced by TV studio Dreamchaser, shaped earlier this 12 months by former 9 Leisure CEO Hugh Marks and former Endemol Shine Australia CEO Carl Fennessy.

Supercars is not any stranger to the docudrama house, having already seemed to bounce off the success of the Netflix collection, Components 1: Drive to Survive, with its personal Inside Line collection.

Nonetheless not like DTS, Inside Line has adopted a single staff for every of its three seasons. The first was Erebus Motorsport, the second Walkinshaw Andretti United and the third Triple Eight Race Engineering.

It has been produced by motorsport-specific manufacturing corporations, Supercars taking the reins for the primary season earlier than it went to AME for season two after which Neil Crompton’s AirTime Media for season three.

It has additionally been aired on Fox Sports activities, which can also be Supercars’ main broadcaster, which has restricted its enchantment to viewers exterior of the normal Supercars fan base.

Quite a lot of groups have additionally produced in-house documentary collection within the current previous. Erebus Motorsport made its own Access All Areas series after the Inside Line series moved to WAU, whereas Tickford Racing tracked its 2020 Bathurst marketing campaign and turned it right into a present known as ‘Greater than a 1000’.

Enhance Cell, in the meantime, had a digicam crew on web site to doc the Richie Stanaway/Greg Murphy wildcard entry on the Bathurst 1000 this 12 months.

The place this newest challenge differs is that, like DTS, it should characteristic quite a few groups, whereas having Dreamchaser behind it opens the door for a tone much less focused at hardcore racing followers.

What shouldn’t be clear is how a lot funding for the challenge has come from Supercars, or what stage of future funding to lock a full manufacturing schedule ought to a broadcast companion be discovered is on the desk.