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video game. The series was produced on location at Road Atlanta Speedway. The host was
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, who is best known as "Hawk" on the television show,
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Each episode featured six amateur racers from diverse backgrounds racing at various competitive motorsports disciplines – drag racing, road racing, autocross and drifting – in a $100,000 winner-take-all format.
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Forza Motorsport Showdown was a weekly television show on
Speed ChannelSpeed, sometimes still referred to as the Speed Channel, is a cable and satellite television channel broadcast to various parts of North America, but primarily the United States...
, produced by BCII, Inc. The show was a collaboration of Speed Channel and Microsoft Game Studios to present a live-action mini-series based on the new
Forza Motorsport 2Forza Motorsport 2 is a racing simulator video game developed by Turn 10 Studios, and the sequel to the original Forza Motorsport, for the Xbox 360 gaming system. A sequel to the game, entitled Forza Motorsport 3, is due to release in late October ....
video game. The series was produced on location at Road Atlanta Speedway. The host was
Lee RehermanLee Reherman is a former American football player and actor.Reherman was born in Louisville, Kentucky. He was a player for Cornell University in college and then played professionally with the Miami Dolphins. While at Cornell University, he was elected to the Sphinx Head Society...
, who is best known as "Hawk" on the television show,
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.
Regular features
Each episode featured six amateur racers from diverse backgrounds racing at various competitive motorsports disciplines – drag racing, road racing, autocross and drifting – in a $100,000 winner-take-all format. Forza Motorsport Showdown was designed to be the ultimate test of high-performance driving and mechanical skills.
In addition, each week Turn 10 Studios aired exclusive footage and announcements of game features of the new Forza Motorsport 2.
Basis of the "Game"
These six amateur drivers competed head to head in the different races. The first one across the finish line won $100,000.
They had to get there in a street car they'd never driven, manned by a crew they'd never met. The different course types included:
- Atlanta Dragway At Commerce's Quarter Mile
- Road Atlanta's Autocross for Drifting
- Two Road Courses
- Lanier Speedway's Oval Track
The Racers and cars of Forza Motorsport Showdown
- Clarence Barnes
- Angela Cope
- Clay Dale
- Car:
- Ken Gushi
is one of the nation's top competitors in the sport of drifting. Born in Okinawa, Japan, but raised in Los Angeles, he was taught by his father Tsukasa Gushi at the age of 13 with a Toyota AE86. Ken has become the youngest competitor in both the D1 Grand Prix of Japan and the Formula Drift...
- Freddie Lewis Jr Left due to back injury
- Jace Meier
- Shawn Day replaced Freddie Lewis left due to bad performance
- James Gribbson replaced Shawn Day
Winner
Forza Motorsports Showdown was won by Angela Cope, who passed Clarence Barnes on the last lap of a 15-lap race at
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. Barnes gave up a sizeable lead, under the advice of his crew chief, by driving at reduced speed with the intent of saving gas.
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