Fast Cars and Superstars: The Gillette Young Guns Celebrity Race was an ABC reality television series featuring twelve celebrities in a stock car auto racing competition.
The series debuted on June 7, 2007 and aired on the same night as a game in the NBA Finals. It aired at 8 p.m. Eastern time, 7 p.m. Central time, and postgame in the Mountain and Pacific time zones. If no game is played, the show aired at 8 p.m. ET/PT.
The event was taped at Lowe's Motor Speedway in Concord, North Carolina, using cars provided by the Jeff Gordon racing school. Kenny Mayne and Brad Daugherty are the hosts. Corey LaCosta from the racing school is the celebrities' driving instructor and head official for the competition.
In an interesting sidelight, the promos that air in the Mountain and Pacific zones mention the show airs after the "basketball finals," not giving the NBA's name or initials. This indicates that, despite the exclusive rights to air the finals, ABC cannot mention the NBA in connection to this show's leadout. A possible reason is that Gillette is the title sponsor of this series; it is a competing product to NBA sponsor Schick.
