Producers: Exploration Production Inc.

The Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona is the first auto race on the North American racing calendar, and the drivers and their teams better be ready. The race, two times around the clock, is a test of endurance, perseverance, and mental toughness with 67 cars sharing the narrow high banked tri-oval of the Daytona International Speedway.

Wayne Taylor racing is the underdog heading into the event, with Dad Wayne running the team and sons Jordan and Ricky sharing the driving. The Taylor family team has a fast car but a limited budget that hopefully won’t get in the way of a podium finish.

From the oval to the rock pit, this episode will go airborne with the rock bouncing stars from the American Deep South.

We’ll go flat out at the AMA flat tracks championship, and meet a Hollywood fabricator who makes hot rod who dreams.

Normally Negril, Jamaica is a tranquil oasis, but when the Caribbean Motor Racing Championship comes to town, soothing is replaced with speeding. Bragging rights are up for grabs in a showdown between the top racers from Trinidad, Guyana, Jamaica and Barbados.

Local favourite Peter Rae has the sun soaked crowd behind him, but his car Zoom-Zoom has a nasty habit of bursting into flames. If Peter can avoid burning out on the track he could find himself on the winner’s podium.

Sun screen is optional in Iceland where we find some racing daredevils race straight up the side of some seriously steep mountains.

It’s pedal to the medal as the Lucas Formula One Drag boats fly across the water at break neck speed in Phoenix.

A marketing executive gets the ride of his life behind the wheel of a NASCAR racer on a high-banked oval.

The Mint 400 is a bone jarring, kidney bruising off-road romp in the Nevada desert featuring North America’s top all-wheeled racers. The Mint is a flat out race over some of the toughest terrain known to man.

Rob MacCachren is considered a legend in off-road racing and he’ll be in tough up against some of the young bucks of the sport. MacCachren isn’t ready to concede anything to the future stars of the sport, but even racing icons have to deal with mechanical breakdowns. And when your truck breaks down in the middle of the desert, it comes down to how fast you get it moving again.

This episode stays with the dirt theme as we head to California where they try to get a grip and go drag racing on sand.

Car auctioneer and serious collector Craig Jackson invites into his home for a private tour of his extensive vehicle collection. When Jackson isn’t running his world famous Barrett-Jackson car auctions, he’s out driving one of rare exotic cars. He invites us to tag along.

In the UK we meet an eccentric inventor who’s come up with a jet go-Kart, and racing up a snowy ski mountain in a jeep.

The NHRA Winter Nationals is like Christmas for drag racing fans. They wait all year for the season kick-off, and hopefully they’re rewarded with the gift of new speed records on the quarter mile. John Force is the face of the National Hot Rod Association with multiple championships between him and his two racing daughters, but the Force family has its hands full this year.

Antron Brown is the up and coming future star of the NHRA, but for him the future is now and he’s ready to win. Antron has never won the kick-off event of the season and he’s determined to leave the Force family in his dust.

We’ll hang on tight as snowmobiles fly over a snowcross track at speeds well over 100 kilometers an hour as the temperature hovers at minus 30.

A visit to Belgium wouldn’t be complete without a couple of hot laps around the world famous Spa Racetrack.

It’s the first ever Indy race in the Big Easy, but staging a race during raining season in New Orleans will be anything but easy. Three-time Indy 500 Champ Helio Castroneves is anxious to make his mark on the brand new track, but heavy rains will provide a supreme challenge. The track is below sea level so drainage is almost non-existent.

The New Orleans Indy will come down to proper tire selection, fuel management, and most importantly avoiding the carnage. Helio is hoping his experience will be the difference and he’ll end up with a podium finish.

Imagine driving 90 miles in just 26 minutes? That’s exactly what they hope to do at the Silver State Classic on a two-lane highway in Nevada. It’s the world’s fastest race on a public road.

The Daytona 200 features the world’s fastest superbike racers in a superfast endurance race.

A racer walks away from a crash that you’ll have to see to believe.

Formula E racing has all the trappings of a world-class series, beautiful cars, beautiful circuits, and beautiful people. The only thing missing is the sound. It’s the inaugural Formula E series and you can be excused if you didn’t hear it coming. The all electric cars are just as fast as their Formula One cousins, but they sound like golf carts; really quick golf carts.

The final race of the Formula E series is run on the narrow streets of Battersea Park in London, England and features the highest of high tech on four wheels. There are no gas pit stops, but they have the next best thing as drivers make a mandatory stop to switch cars before the batteries run down.

From high tech to high drama as volunteer firefighters in New York State jump off blazing fast firetrucks in the 100th annual Firematic games.

Truck drag racing in Quebec, Canada, means Metric Tonnes of fun for everybody.

Joey Hand is lucky to be alive after a wild ride at Road America.

When it comes to Pikes Peak the numbers are staggering; 156 turns, 12-miles of zig-zags, a starting position at over 9000 feet, and a summit finish line at 14,115 feet. The Pikes Peak International Hill Climb is unlike any other race in the world; it’s not just racing against other drivers – it’s competing against the mountain.

In addition to following an electric car in its attempt to break the battery powered record, we’ll be there as a father and son both try to break the magical ten minute mark.

Shamwreck can be compared to a demolition derby, but the drivers are actually racing around a half mile track. The kamikazes behind the wheel throw out the rule book and basically bang each other all the way to the finish line.

This episode will also feature the ultimate in 50’s and 60’s hot rods, a world speed record on water, and stadium super trucks that tear it up on the Las Vegas strip.

Nürburgring is regarded as the most dangerous racetrack in the world – 170 turns spread out over 25 kilometers in Northwest Germany. Every year, more than 200 cars, in four classes, attempt to tame the track in the 24 hours of Nürburgring. This year the Aston Martin 007 team will attempt to crack the podium usually dominated by Audi, Mercedes and Porsche. The British factory team has never finished the grueling 24 hour race, but just finishing won’t be good enough for them this year.

When it comes to drag racing, age is just a number as we follow a 79 year-old dragster as he attempts to become the fastest drag racer in North America.

Minimotos are two-stroke miniature motorcycles that serve up a unique brand of speed and carnage. We’ll follow two of the sports stars as they race around a tight circuit in Northern Ireland.

Rounding off the episode: an off-road race that puts the “out” in the Australian Outback, a contest that features the best burnouts, and a spectacular crash in the Dakar Rally that you have to see to believe.

On an air strip at a Colorado airport the world’s fastest street cars duke it out in an attempt to break the world record of 219 miles an hour over a half mile. Lucas English is the current record holder in his beefed up Nissan GTR, but his competition is in his rear view mirror and gaining ground. They call the event the Air Strip Attack and it features traditional standing start drag racing, along with the extremely challenging rolling start events.

Figure 8 racing is like nothing you’ve ever seen before as cars race on two ovals that actually intersect. You can only imagine the chaos as cars essentially fly through an intersection at 80 miles an hour with no one stopping to give way. Speed is almost as important as surviving.

We’ll go sideways at the Formula Drift championships in California, jump on snowmobiles and race on clay, and meet two Swedish sisters aiming to be the fastest on two wheels.