It is like Wacky Races, however with out the sentient animals. Okay, perhaps it isn’t like Wacky Races in any respect.
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Proper now, there are a number of alternative ways to get your automotive repair on tv. You’ve got obtained wild journey sequence like The Grand Tour, motorsports in fact, in addition to a couple of billion totally different mediocre actuality reveals on MotorTrend’s cable channel. Netflix is slowly ramping up its automotive choices, too, and its newest present seems completely wild.
Netflix on Thursday printed its first trailer for the upcoming Hyperdrive sequence. Consider it as capturing the spectacle of American Ninja Warrior, however with a boatload of wildly personalized automobiles. It takes place at an industrial complicated that is been revamped to include 10 various kinds of programs. There is a large see-saw, drift programs and different wild spectacles.
It isn’t only a bunch of dyed-in-the-wool race automobile drivers operating these programs, both. As a substitute, it is common Joes and Janes — the trailer factors out a number of of them with jobs like truck driver, lumberjack, regulation scholar and “millionaire,” which I am fairly positive is not an actual job, however hey, good for that man. By the seems of it, every of the 28 racers within the competitors will furnish their very own automobile, too, so count on quite a lot of selection.
There are some huge names behind this undertaking, too. Charlize Theron is the manager producer, and the hosts come from varied walks of life, together with former High Gear USA presenter Rutledge Wooden, former MMA fighter Michael Bisping and Fox Sports activities broadcaster Mike Hill.
Your entire first season hits Netflix on Aug. 21, with episodes lasting round 45 to 50 minutes every. Seize some popcorn — and perhaps a helmet.
