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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.

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.

Big Rig Truck Racing, five-ton vehicles jockeying for position on a track built for ‘normal’ race cars. It’s a lot like a demolition derby as the giants of the track bump and push each other around in search of the checkered flag. Veteran Jim Bennett will do his best to fend off upstart Simon Reid. Will Simon’s enthusiasm be enough to get past the crafty veteran and attempt to capture his first Big Rig win?

He calls himself Kid Kwik, but to Frank Hawley, head school master at Drag Racing school, Kid is just another student. The young cocky upstart better pay attention to Frank or risk hitting the wall.

Tanner Faust is one of the stars of global rally cross, a rock-em sock-em racing series that features every racing discipline and almost encourages contact. On the Las Vegas stop on the circuit, Tanner will try and keep his nose clean to make it to the finish line.

Eric Taboul straddles a jet motorcycle and goes an astonishing 451 kilometers an hour.

Connor Cummins recounts a spectacular accident that almost took his life on the world famous TT race course on the Isle of Man.

Virgil Benton wants to become the first driver to go 200 miles per hour in a Shelby Cobra. The San Diego gear head bought his 1965 Shelby in parts from the world famous manufacturer, built it himself, and now he’s taking it the Mojave Mile. “The Mile” in the middle of Mojave Desert is the place to go if you think you’re fast. Virgil doesn’t have a lot of race experience, but he’s hoping he can make history behind the wheel of his classic roadster.

Finland’s Anita Makela is the two-time European Top Fuel champion, and one of the fastest women in the world. Anita is out to capture her third crown as she straps herself into her top fuel alcohol dragster and gets launched to 300 miles per hour.

A former British Cabinet Minister gets behind the wheel of the world’s fastest electric car. You might not hear it coming, but the battery powered Lola racecar can go 205 miles an hour, without making a sound.

Jari Kuosma calls himself the Birdman as he soars at more than 200 kilometres an hour, five thousand feet in the air.

Meet Brenda Sue Carver, the fastest woman in the world… wearing a Tutu.