#StayAtHome: Our Top TV Picks

Tuesday 07 April 2020

With everyone having to stay at home, we’ve collated our pick of the best motorsport-related films, tv series, and documentaries to keep you occupied over the coming weeks.

All4

Inside Bentley: A Great British Motor Car
For the first time, Bentley invite cameras behind the scenes. This documentary meets their staff and their customers as it visits the factory, the showrooms and the secret upgrades department.

Speed with Guy Martin: F1 Special, F1 Challenge and Classic F1 Special
You can enjoy multiple Guy Martin documentaries on All4, our top picks are the F1 specials. Watch as he takes on David Coulthard and an F1 car in a series of challenges, joins the Williams pit crew and races a 1983 Williams Formula 1 car against Jenson Button at Silverstone.

Amazon Prime Video

Le Mans: Racing is Everything
The 24 Hours of Le Mans is a motor race like no other. Taking place in France each year, it is an endurance test for drivers and cars that literally takes 24 hours to complete. Travelling from Kuala Lumpur to the Côte D’Azur, shot in breathtaking 4K and with unprecedented access to six of the teams competing for glory, Le Mans: Racing is Everything is motorsport as you’ve never seen it before.

Subaru Launch Control
Subaru Motorsports USA flies the blue and gold colors into the 2019 ARA and ARX seasons. The award-winning Launch Control series brings you unfiltered access as the team tries to win both the U.S. national rally and rallycross championships in the same year.

Grand Prix Driver
GRAND PRIX Driver goes inside the secretive world of Formula 1 by offering never-before-granted access to the inner workings of McLaren. After three tough years, McLaren is hopeful that this is the year the team will be back on the podium, and they have promoted rookie driver Stoffel Vandoorne alongside two-time world champion Fernando Alonso to work towards this goal.

The Gymkhana Files
The Gymkhana files take viewers behind the scenes of one of the world’s wildest video franchises of all time. Follow Ken Block and his Hoonigans as they attempt to make the greatest automotive video of all time while racing in the World Rallycross Championship.

The 2019 Britpart British Cross Country Championship
Relive all of the action from the 2019 season of the UK’s premier off-road championship. Also on Prime are the 2018 British Asphalt Rally Championship and MSN Circuit Rally Championship, plus action from the Classic Sports Car Club’s 2019 season.

BBC iPlayer

Sir Chris Hoy: 200mph at Le Mans (pictured)
Watch the documentary following Sir Chris Hoy as he fulfils his dream of competing in the Le Mans 24 Hours.

Hunt vs Lauda: F1’s Greatest Racing Rivals
The victory duel for the 1976 Formula 1 Championship has become the stuff of legend. In this documentary enjoy unseen footage and exclusive interviews with the people who were really there – the team managers, families, journalists and friends who were in the front row of the season that changed Formula 1 forever.

Driven: The Billy Monger Story
Following the remarkable story of 18-year-old Billy Monger, one of Britain’s most exciting young racing drivers, who in April 2017 was involved in a devastating crash, resulting in the amputation of his legs. Incredibly, soon after his accident, Billy resolved to get back to racing, in the hope of becoming the first ever amputee to race competitively in a single-seater racing car.

Netflix

Formula 1: Drive to Survive
Take a behind-the-scenes look at the 2018 and 2019 Formula One seasons.

The 24 Hour War
Documenting the intense rivalry between Henry Ford II and Enzo Ferrari that resulted in one of the most intense showdown’s in history.

The Gentleman Driver
A motorsport documentary following four business tycoons who moonlight as motorsport competitors and examines what fuels them to succeed, both at work and on the track.

A life of speed: The Juan Manuel Fangio Story
A look back at the Argentine-born Formula One World Champion who set nearly every F1 record before the modern era.

RUSH
A film centred around the rivalry between James Hunt and Nikki Lauda.