Drive - Season 1
Season 1
Episodes
Episode 1
In the first race of the series to determine who goes straight through to the following week's show the eight celebrities are split into two groups. Each group of four have to race against each other in their banger cars completing 10 laps around the track. But it's not just each other that they are up against… Four menacing ‘Wreckers' will also be joining the race with the sole purpose of wreaking havoc. The winner from each of these groups will automatically go through to next week's driving challenge, leaving the other remaining six celebrities to battle it out and compete in a second banger race.
Episode 2
Host Vernon Kay meets up with the remaining seven celebrities.
UK racing legend and double British Touring Car Champion Jason Plato is also on hand with his expert advice and introduces the group to their second challenge of the series; off-road buggy racing.
The normal rules of racing are out the window as this week the competition goes up a gear, with the contestants taking on three challenges in off-road buggies.
Episode 3
In the third episode of the series, host Vernon Kay meets up with the remaining six celebrities and UK racing legend and double British Touring Car Champion Jason Plato is also on hand with his expert advice and introduces the group to their third challenge of the series; all-terrain 4x4 driving.
Episode 4
Five celebrities are left and the race to get through to the final is drawing closer. In this week's episode, the remaining celebrities are faced with driving high-speed rally cross cars in a bid to secure their place in the final. However, the two with the slowest times will once again go head to head in the Night Race to find out who goes home, and who stays for the final.
The Night Race takes place on a specially designed course that will push the drivers to their limits. Each week, the bottom two contestants will be put behind the wheel of a BMW M3, which can do 0-60 in around four seconds. Racing one after the other, they must each attempt to complete the course in the fastest possible time. The driver with the quickest time survives and the slowest goes home.
Episode 5
Our finalists will burn up the tracks in a F4 car in a bid to be crowned the Drive Champion with a surprise return from some familiar faces it's an ultimate high speed showdown as the finalists take to the grid one last time, but who will steer themselves to victory to be crowned Drive Champion?
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