Netflix F1 Drive to Survive star quits ahead of 2025 season for new TV role
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F1 presenter Will Buxton has announced he will stop covering the sport to take up an opportunity with IndyCar. Buxton has been a regular in the F1 paddock, taking part in a lot of their in-house media, and also saw his profile skyrocket as a contributor in the immensely popular Drive To Survive docuseries. He's been involved with F1 since 2018, but will now head across the Atlantic.
It has now been confirmed by FOX, who have taken on the broadcasting rights of IndyCar for the 2025 season from NBC in the United States, that Buxton, James Hinchcliffe and Townsend Bell would make up the channel’s commentary team. Buxton admitted in a lengthy social media post that covering IndyCar had always been a huge desire having "fallen in love with the place immediately" in the past and confirmed his exit from all F1 coverage.
He wrote: "I have always loved Indycar, always been enthralled by the excitement of its racing and stunned by the skills of its incredible drivers. And while I always hoped that one day I might, I never imagined that I ever actually would have the opportunity to join the series full time. That I will get to do so in the role and with the responsibility that I do in 2025 is a tremendous honour. And while I am unbelievably excited, I am only too aware of the enormity of the task I am undertaking, and the trust placed in me.
"Racing is my life. My deepest passion. Its drivers are my heroes. I’ve been incredibly fortunate to have had a job for the past two decades that revolves around telling their stories. And beyond that, a job that I’ve always believed is about taking the fans on a journey, whether through the page or through the screen, to the heart of the racing world. To make them a part of the sport they love. That has been and will always be why I do what I do.
