Netflix announce new Michael Schumacher documentary

Netflix have announced a new F1 documentary, this time focusing on seven-time world champion Michael Schumacher.

Following the success of Drive to Survive since it first aired in 2019, Netflix have made a number of other F1 documentaries and shows, including the 2021 film Schumacher, and the 2024 series Senna.

Now, the streaming platform have revealed there will be another Schumacher-focused documentary, this time about the 1994 season - Schumacher's first title-winning year - and it will be titled Schumacher 94.

German legend Schumacher is largely seen as one of the greatest racers in F1 history, having won a joint record seven world championships across his career, and sitting second on the all-time lists of race victories, podiums and pole positions.

While it's his Ferrari titles that are remembered most vividly - five between 2000 and 2004 in an unprecedented period of dominance - Schumacher's championships earned with Benetton in 1994 and 1995 were arguably two of his most impressive.

In 1994, he beat Damon Hill by a single point to take the title, at a Benetton team who finished second behind Williams in the constructors' championship and had only claimed seven race victories in their history before that year.

The new documentary is going to feature Schumacher's wife Corinna Schumacher, and is set to be released on Netflix later in 2026.

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What happened in the 1994 F1 season?

The 1994 F1 season was marred by tragedy and the death of an F1 legend in Ayrton Senna.

It was the third race of the season in Imola where both Roland Ratzenberger and Senna passed away in two separate incidents throughout the weekend, leaving the world of F1 in utter shock and leading to improved safety measures in the sport.

Senna had just started his partnership with Williams having claimed three world championships with McLaren, and the team went on to win the constructors' championship that year.

But amid the sadness that clouded the sport in 1994, Schumacher claimed eight grand prix victories, and managed to win the title at the last race of the season.

That came in controversial circumstances, however, with both Schumacher and Hill crashing out of the season-ending Australian Grand Prix after a collision caused by Schumacher. As a result of the German being a point ahead heading into that final race, he won the 1994 world championship, celebrating on the sidelines as Hill retired from the race having attempted to carry on.

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