Season 1
Massive Speed is a petrol-driven Discovery Channel series that follows on from the series Massive Engines and Massive Machines, both of which were also presented by petrolhead Chris Barrie.
In Massive Speed Chris turns his attention to the evolution of machines designed purely to achieve maximum speed.
He travels the world searching for the most thrilling, speed-packed machines he can find and introduces audiences to huge engined bikes, planes, trucks and boats that battle it out in power races.
Whether it's crossing an otherwise imprenetrable snow drift, desert or swamp at the speed of an Olympic spirnter or cutting through the atmosphere at six times the speed of sound, Chris tells the stories of the greatest achievements of speed design and engineering.
In each episode Chris follows the evolution of a specific genre of machine by driving them and testing them and reveals both the classsic stories and secret histories that surround each of them.