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.
[1] Contestants in the first series were Arif Patel, Becky Francis, Craig Dean, Joseph Youssefi, Kay Brown, Sharon Welburn, Tim Key and Valli Holland.
In the second series contestants were Brian, Carol, Chris, Janice, Daz, Rita, Karl, and Nikki, who left the show in episode 5 .
In the fourth episode Daz won £10,000 in cash to compensate for the blowing up of his modified Vauxhall Nova and bought a base BMW E36 318.