Speed with Guy Martin

Name: Speed with Guy Martin
Released: 2013-12-29T00:00:00.000Z
Cast: Shaun Dooley, Guy Martin

TV Show · Documentary

Motorcycle racer and lorry mechanic Guy Martin creates four speed-based challenges, exploring the boundaries of physics and learning about the science of speed. Celebrities who are well known in the world of speed help him in his challenges.

2013 · 47m

Starring Shaun Dooley, Guy Martin

Director James Woodroffe

EPISODE 1

Episode 1

Guy attempts to break the British record for outright speed on a bicycle. To achieve his goal he recruits a truck racer, an Olympic gold medallist, a bicycle builder and a design engineer more used to working on next-generation military aircraft.
EPISODE 2

Episode 2

Guy tries to establish the world record for riding a motorcycle across the surface of water. His performance relies on Sir Isaac Newton's `Third Law of Motion', where every action has an equal and opposite reaction.
EPISODE 3

Episode 3

Guy wants to build the world's fastest human-powered aircraft: a plane without an engine that he will cycle into the air. He heads to Southampton University where, on November 9, 1961, Derek Piggot became the first man to fly under his own power.
EPISODE 4

Episode 4

Motorcycle racer Guy Martin wants to break the world record for the fastest gravity-powered sled, and builds a toboggan on the unforgiving Pyrenees slopes.