Netflix has a new comedy series about NASCAR debuting next month, and, based on the trailer the streaming service released Friday, it looks… not great.

If fans of Netflix’s Formula 1: Drive to Survive — a captivating and in-depth docuseries about the people, intricacies and politics inside F1 — were looking for something comparable about NASCAR, this isn’t it.

Starring Kevin James, The Crew is set to premiere on February 15, one day after NASCAR’s season-opening Daytona 500, and it’s a 10-episode series, Deadline reported back in December. Per NASCAR, James plays a crew chief for a complacent fictional team, Bobby Spencer Racing, and things get complicated when the team’s owner hands control over to his daughter, who’s looking to modernize the team and raise its season expectations.

In all honesty, The Crew looks like a combination of the King of Queens and the roughest of rough drafts of a scene in Talladega Nights that was rightfully abandoned for lacking any humor or satire.

The premise of The Crew seems reasonable enough for a NASCAR show because there’s often a clash between drivers’ and teams’ old-school ways of operating and the innovation of the future. But between the flat jokes and the effort it takes just to get through the trailer, the show looks far from appealing.

James plays an apathetic crew chief whose expectations are probably too low even for a backmarker team, and he appears entirely unbothered by his similarly lazy and idiot driver who gets distracted mid-race by a cloud that looks like Abraham Lincoln.

Just in the trailer, the team’s incompetency feels like an over-used punchline that’s supposed to keep viewers entertained and laughing. And you’ll know when to laugh, of course, because the audience’s chuckles — and not a laugh track, as the showrunner noted — will tell you.

The biggest positive takeaway is that the show will emphasize NASCAR as a team sport, rather than encouraging a common misconception that it’s an individual one.

To be fair, it’s challenging to judge the quality of an entire show off the 135-second trailer, so perhaps this assessment is premature. However, a trailer is supposed to advertise and intrigue people enough so that they eagerly stream the show when it’s released. The Crew‘s trailer really doesn’t accomplish that.

We’ll still give it a chance when it’s released, but some fans didn’t seem too impressed by the trailer either and had mixed reactions.

Hey, the #NASCAR sitcom premieres next month. No, it doesn't look great, but it does look on par with most modern-day sitcoms in the "barely acceptable" category, so I'll give it a chance. https://t.co/QDY4NX5qhZ

— JBTheExplorer (@ExplorerJB) January 16, 2021

When The Crew drops and all the up tight #NASCAR fans are crying about how "WE WANTED THE F1 SHOW!🤬" I'm gonna be over here enjoying the first fictional NASCAR-themed entertainment in a long while like… pic.twitter.com/FKgNOtF1Cq

— LIᗩᗰ DECᕼIᑕK (@dechick14) January 15, 2021

wow this looks bad https://t.co/zzUpRlzdpf

— Benjamin Fanning (@ThatRacinKid) January 15, 2021

Let’s go this looks amazing finally a NASCAR tv show https://t.co/zNNCvPi61j

— Dale Ostrander (@Dale61157) January 15, 2021

#NASCAR needs a show, a Kevin James sitcom is NOT what the sport needs. Watch it the day after the 500. 🤷🏽 https://t.co/gj0ksbdthk

— Alan Bailey (@HeyAlanBailey) January 15, 2021

I was super excited for this.. now im not lol https://t.co/olurkajpNu

— Roddy (@RoddyMitts) January 15, 2021

This is absolutely GENIUS!!😂😂 https://t.co/w2B30PJyR2

— Travis Braden (@TrBraden) January 15, 2021

Kinda gives me Big Bang Theory vibes. TRIED to be funny show ABOUT nerds not for nerds

In other words, looks like it's gonna TRY to be a funny show ABOUT NASCAR not necessarily FOR NASCAR fans.

But Big Bang was very popular, as much as I found it unfunny, so could be a success https://t.co/btAPM8pW1n

— Chevy48 (@chevychevelle48) January 16, 2021

Short answer: Yikes.
Long answer: NASCAR comedy could work, but not w/writers from 30 years ago using discarded Talladega Nights lines. Dramedy is better. Scene: Newman's accident as story-when he comes back, makes nerdy engineer joke but gets another bar in the cars.

— The Lost One (@TheLostieLost) January 15, 2021

big no. we want Nascar Drive to Survive like F1 has and instead we get this.

— Stephen (@racecrazy) January 15, 2021

If you're disappointed because some of the racing stuff is way off, I'm with you. Chase Elliott had 3 DNFs last year and won the Cup.

But if you're disappointed because low budget shop sets wasn't what you had in your head when you heard "NASCAR comedy," that's entirely on you.

— Bill Crittenden 😷 (@BillCrittenden) January 15, 2021