Fast Cars and Superstars: The Gillette Young Guns Celebrity Race

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Fast Cars and Superstars: The Gillette Young Guns Celebrity Race
StarringKenny Mayne & Brad Daugherty
Country of originUnited States
No. of episodes7
Production
Running time30 minutes
Original release
Network ABC
ReleaseJune 7 (2007-06-07) –
June 24, 2007 (2007-06-24)

Fast Cars & Superstars: The Gillette Young Guns Celebrity Race was an ABC reality television series featuring twelve celebrities in a stock car auto racing competition. Directed by Michael John Warren, the branded series was a coproduction between television commercial production company @radical.media, television producer Michael Davies, advertising agency BBDO and Gillette. [1] [2] [3]

Contents

The series debuted on June 7, 2007 and aired on the same night as a game in the 2007 NBA Finals. It aired at 8 p.m. Eastern time, 7 p.m. Central time, and postgame in the Mountain and Pacific time zones. The June 24 finale aired at 8 ET/PT and 7 CT/MT as the finals had ended by this time, with the San Antonio Spurs being crowned champions.

The event was taped at Lowe's Motor Speedway in Concord, North Carolina, using cars provided by the Jeff Gordon racing school. Kenny Mayne and Brad Daugherty were the hosts. Corey LaCosta from the racing school was the celebrities' driving instructor and head official for the competition.

Due to sponsorship reasons, promos that aired in the Mountain and Pacific zones mention the show aired after the "basketball finals," not giving the NBA's name or initials. This was because, despite the exclusive rights to air the finals, ABC could not mention the NBA in connection to this show's lead-out. A possible reason was that Gillette is the title sponsor of this series; it is a competing product to Schick, an NBA sponsor at that time.

Celebrities

The twelve contestants on the series are: [4]

  1. Krista Allen – Actress ( Days of Our Lives ) Eliminated 6–10–07
  2. John Cena – Professional wrestler (WWE) Third place 6–24–07
  3. Bill Cowher – Former Super Bowl Champion National Football League head coach (Steelers) Sixth place 6–24–07
  4. John Elway – Former NFL quarterback (Broncos) Won 6–24–07
  5. Tony Hawk – Professional Skateboarder Fourth place 6–24–07
  6. Laird Hamilton – Surfer Eliminated 6–17–07
  7. Jewel – Singer Fifth place 6–24–07
  8. Ty Murray – Rodeo champion, president of Professional Bull Riders, Inc. Second place 6–24–07
  9. Gabrielle Reece – Professional volleyball player and fashion model Eliminated 6–19–07
  10. John Salley – Retired NBA player (Pistons, Bulls, Lakers) Eliminated 6–12–07
  11. William Shatner – Actor ( Star Trek , Boston Legal ) Eliminated/Disqualified 6–14–07
  12. Serena Williams – Olympic gold medal Tennis player Eliminated 6–7–07

Round 1

The celebrities have been broken into 4 groups of 3 for the first round of the competition, the Time Trial. In each of the first four weeks, the celebrities in one of the groups will be competing for spots in the second round. Each celebrity will do 3 timed laps around Lowe's Motor Speedway. The 2 celebrities in the group with the fastest times will move on to the second round, but the one with the slowest time will be eliminated.

Episode 1

The Young Gun driver was Kurt Busch. Laird Hamilton had the fastest time. John Elway came in second. Serena Williams was the slowest and was eliminated.

DriverLap 1Lap 2Lap 3Total TimeResult
1 Laird Hamilton 148.60 mph149.09 mph148.27 mph1:48:98Advanced to next round
2 John Elway 146.02 mph146.26 mph148.64 mph1:50:23Advanced to next round
3 Serena Williams 123.65 mph129.16 mph136.05 mph2:05:17Eliminated

Episode 2

The Young Gun driver was Jimmie Johnson. Tony Hawk had the fastest time. Ty Murray came in second, with a time very close to Tony Hawk's. Krista Allen had the slowest time in her group and was eliminated, although her time was in fact even faster than Laird Hamilton's (the winning time from the previous week.)

DriverLap 1Lap 2Lap 3Total TimeResult
1 Tony Hawk 151.43 mph151.64 mph151.43 mph1:46:92Advanced to next round
2 Ty Murray 150.96 mph151.64 mph151.43 mph1:47:03Advanced to next round
3 Krista Allen 147.26 mph149.63 mph149.29 mph1:48:94Eliminated

Episode 3

The Young Gun driver was Carl Edwards. Jewel had the fastest time. John Cena came in second. John Salley was eliminated with the slowest time so far.

DriverLap 1Lap 2Lap 3Total TimeResult
1 Jewel 144.85 mph144.85 mph145.08 mph1:51:78Advanced to next round
2 John Cena 144.46 mph144.46 mph144.89 mph1:52:02Advanced to next round
3 John Salley 125.73 mph128.76 mph133.33 mph2:05:38Eliminated

Episode 4

The Young Gun driver was Ryan Newman. Bill Cowher was the fastest in this round, despite hitting the wall during practice time, followed by Gabrielle Reece (who almost hit the wall during practice). William Shatner was disqualified for putting the car below the safety line several times.

Because of Cowher's crash in practice, the standard-specification "current car" had to be scrapped, and each of the three drivers used a Car of Tomorrow specification car.

DriverLap 1Lap 2Lap 3Total TimeResult
1 Bill Cowher 140.37 mph139.79 mph142.03 mph1:55:11Advanced to next round
2 Gabrielle Reece 131.07 mph134.19 mph137.58 mph2:00:69Advanced to next round
3 William Shatner 134.73 mph134.26 mph137.51 mph1:59:56Disqualified

Round 2

The remaining celebrities are broken into 2 groups of 4 for the Accuracy Trial. On the track are 6 clusters of 3 arrows each. The celebrities have to drive over each cluster in each of their first 2 laps. On the third lap, the celebrities must stop the car within a box on pit road. Penalties are 2 seconds per missed cluster and varying penalties for overshooting the pit box.

Episode 5

The Young Gun driver was Kasey Kahne. Ty Murray finished first for this episode, followed by John Elway and Tony Hawk. Laird Hamilton got 25 seconds in penalties added on and was eliminated from the competition.

The total time includes the 3 laps, pit time and penalties.

DriverLap 1Lap 2PenaltiesTotal TimeResult
1 Ty Murray 141.51 mph142.86 mpharrow clusters-4 sec. penalty
pit box-5 sec. penalty		2:05:53Advanced to next round
2 John Elway 140.44 mph141.47 mpharrow clusters-2 sec. penalty
pit box-no penalty		2:07:33Advanced to next round
3 Tony Hawk 140.59 mph138.67 mpharrow clusters-no penalty
pit box-no penalty		2:07:94Advanced to next round
4 Laird Hamilton 138.67 mph138.07 mpharrow clusters-10 sec. penalty
pit box-15 sec. penalty		2:27.64Eliminated

Episode 6

The Young Gun driver was Jamie McMurray. John Cena was the fastest this episode, followed by Bill Cowher and Jewel. Gabrielle Reece got the highest time after penalties and was eliminated, a week after her husband Laird Hamilton was eliminated.

The total time includes the 3 laps, pit time and penalties.

DriverLap 1Lap 2PenaltiesTotal TimeResult
1 John Cena 136.43 mph137.86 mpharrow clusters- 2 sec. penalty
pit box- no penalty		2:04:98Advanced to next round
2 Bill Cowher 111.62 mph113.28 mpharrow clusters- no penalty
pit box- no penalty		2:25:33Advanced to next round
3 Jewel 127.66 mph131.20 mpharrow clusters- 4 sec. penalty
pit box- 15 sec. penalty		2:26:98Advanced to next round
4 Gabrielle Reece 118.45 mph122.98 mpharrow clusters- 18 sec. penalty
pit box- no penalty		2:40:64Eliminated

Round 3

Episode 7

This was the final round of competition. The six drivers who were left were teamed up with one of the six Gillette Young Guns. The competitors followed the Young Guns for five laps with a two tire pit stop on the third lap. John Elway was the fastest and won the competition at 3:39:31, followed by Ty Murray in second with a time of 3:43:67, and in third John Cena at 3:44:67. Tony Hawk finished fourth, Jewel finished fifth and Bill Cowher finished sixth. [5]

Episode ratings

Episode #TitleAir DateDemoViewers
1"Episode 101"June 7, 20071.9/75.62 million
2"Episode 102"June 10, 20071.6/54.75 million
3"Episode 103"June 12, 20071.8/75.09 million
4"Episode 104"June 14, 20071.9/75.57 million
5"Episode 105"June 17, 20070.7/32.22 million
6"Episode 106"June 19, 20071.0/33.08 million
7"Episode 107"June 24, 20070.6/22.15 million

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Post-show note

Although ABC chose not to renew the show for a second season, the arrow clusters originally painted on the track for this series are still visible on the track at LMS. (The track name changed back to Charlotte Motor Speedway on January 1, 2010.)

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