Britain's Worst Driver

Britain's Worst Driver was a British television series created and hosted by ex-Top Gear host Quentin Willson made by Mentorn airing between 2002 and 2005 on Five.

Britain's Worst Driver
Also known as	Britain's Worst Celebrity Driver (2003-05)
Genre	Reality
Created by	Quentin Willson Duncan McAlpine
Presented by	Quentin Willson Jenni Falconer (2005)
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language	English
No. of series	2
No. of episodes	14 (30 inc. specials)
Production
Running time	30 minutes (inc. adverts)
Production company	Mentorn
Original release
Network	Five
Release	18 October 2002 (2002-10-18) – 25 September 2005 (2005-09-25)
Related
Worst Driver

Format

Each series, eight drivers were nominated by friends and family as being 'Britain's Worst Driver' and on the show had the opportunity to "earn back" their driving licences by performing various driving challenges, judged by a panel of industry experts including a motor accident investigator, a behavioural psychologist, a chief executive of a motor insurance group, and presenter and motoring journalist Vicki Butler-Henderson. The driver who performed the worst over the course of the series was awarded Britain's Worst Driver.

In each episode, the drivers received extra tuition and were then set driving related challenges to show what they had learnt and to gauge their improvement. The driver that the panel of judges deemed to have shown the most improvement was allowed to go home and was rewarded with a brand new car and a course of additional driving lessons.

In series 2 episode 4, Daz Gardner, nicknamed 'boy racer' was given the choice of taking £10,000 for his pink Vauxhall Nova and his baseball cap. Gardner took the £10,000 and blew the car up under the instruction of Willson.

Comedian Tim Key, nicknamed 'Timid Tim' for his seemingly cautious and slow approach to driving on the roads, was a contestant on the first series. He won the third episode (eliminated second), however sold the car that he had won, a Ford Ka, after a week. He later mentioned that he was low on money and, as an actor, played a bad driver in order to make profit from the car.

Transmissions

Regular series

Series	Start date	End date	Episodes
1	18 October 2002	29 November 2002	7
2	9 September 2003	21 October 2003	7

Celebrity series

Series	Start date	End date	Episodes
1	4 November 2003	2 December 2003	5
2	11 September 2005	25 September 2005	7

Specials

Date	Entitle
28 October 2003	Highlights
24 December 2003	The Best of...

External links

• Britain's Worst Driver at UKGameshows.com