Britain's Best Drives
Britain's Best Drives is a six-part 2009 British television series in which Richard Wilson travels across the UK in reviewing the best driving roads from a motoring guide of the 1950s. In each episode he drives a different car of the period. There was also a seventh episode where Wilson learns how to drive a manual transmission car again.
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- First Aired on
Feb 19, 2009
- Popularity: 4.0614
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- Networks
- (GB)
- Status: Ended
Show Ended
1 seaons till Jun 12, 2009
Last episode: The Trossachs
Seasons & episodes
Total 1 seasons, 6 episodes
Specials
Aired
Episode 1Richard Wilson Learns to Drive30 min
In preparation for a motor journey around Britain, Richard Wilson is put through his paces as he learns how to use a gear stick again, having driven only automatics for the past 30 years. He drives classic cars, goes off road, experiences the thrills and spills of the skidpan and gets a lesson in driving high performance cars from five-time Le Mans winner Derek Bell.
