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The World's Toughest Driving Tests

Travel · 2010

Last aired: S1 E6, Uruguay: Tree Harvester · 2010-03-30

Will Mellor and Kirsten O'Brien travel the globe learning to drive and race the world's biggest, most expensive and hardest-to-master vehicles.

Cast

Will Mellor Will Mellor

Kirsten O'Brien Kirsten O'Brien

Season 1

E1 Romania: TR-85 Main Battle Tank 2010-02-23 · 60 min Will Mellor and Kirsten O'Brien learn to drive a Romanian Army combat tank. They have only a week's training in sub-zero conditions to master the skills needed to race each other.

E2 Essex: Straddle Carrier 2010-03-02 · 60 min Will Mellor and Kirsten O'Brien learn to drive and race the mother of all vehicles, standing 15m high and the powerhouse of the docking industry, the straddle carrier.

E3 Scotland: Terex TR100 Rigid Dump Truck 2010-03-09 · 60 min Rival petrolheads Will Mellor and Kirsten O'Brien compete at an opencast mine in one of the world's biggest vehicles, the Terex TR100, a dumper truck the size of a house.

E4 Canada: ARKTOS Amphibious Craft 2010-03-16 · 60 min Will Mellor and Kirsten O'Brien learn to drive and race the world's most sophisticated amphibious vehicle, the 47-tonne, two-million-pound go-anywhere Arktos.

E5 Châtel, France: Snow Groomer 2010-03-23 · 60 min In the French Alps, Will Mellor and Kirsten O'Brien learn to drive and race the gravity-defying and mountain-climbing Snow Groomer, a machine packed with over 400 horse power.

E6 Uruguay: Tree Harvester 2010-03-30 · 60 min Will Mellor and Kirsten O'Brien take their final and deciding driving test in the tree harvester, a six-wheeled monster truck with teeth, deep in the Uruguayan forest.

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