Derek takes you back 20 years ago to his start at going after his dream of being a professional sports car racer. Brooke has been following his passion for years filming it all while simultaneously raising their family on and off the track. They touch on the challenges of breaking into the world of the professional race car world.
After signing for his first season of professional racing with TRG Aston Martin, Derek begins to get hints that his sponsor may not come through with the money to cover the season. Amidst the questions he is offered the opportunity of a lifetime to drive in his dream race, teaming up with F1 star Eliseo Salazar.
It becomes clear after the Daytona race that becoming a legitimate professional race car driver may be a little harder than originally expected. Family stresses, balancing his full time job, and questions about the sponsor relationship begin to pile up and Derek wonders if his push to be a professional racer is going to come to a screeching halt at any moment.
Brooke has hired a crew to film the first race weekend Derek's debut as a professional race car driver and he begins to feel pressure to show up and perform in his first pro racing season. His youngest daughter begins to have anxiety about his racing and picks up on the stress both he and his wife, Brooke are feeling trying to figure out if the sponsor is real.
As Derek's racing season begins to show signs of unraveling with sponsor issues, we begin to feel the impact on the whole family. Derek's relationship with the team owner is growing despite the challenges, and he offers Derek an opportunity to enter the Aston Martin Festival LeMans, France. As the fate of his racing career is in question, Derek and his family head to France.
As he preps for the Aston Martin Festival race, we learn more about Derek's practice and strategy techniques. In front of 200,000 spectators at the Cirque de la Sarthe, Derek and the team are forced to take a risky gamble.
After the high of a win in LeMans, Derek comes back home and to face the harsh realities of sponsor fraud and a strained family dynamic. After making an interesting new connection and seeing his new car livery, he begins to wonder if he can simultaneously follow his dream and give his family the attention they deserve.
Derek's daughter weighs in on her dad's fight for his dream as he prepares for the Pirelli World Challenge. While Derek and and his new co-driver Jason discover they have very different approaches to the sport, Brooke reveals why she is obsessively filming everything they are doing. Derek is hit with some performance issues.
Derek shares his fear of failure and has an incident with a teammate. After gaining some attention for a strong finish in the first race of the weekend, he's unable to follow up his success on Day Two.
With little rest, Derek and Jason gear up for one of the most exciting and dangerous races in the circuit. Find out just how far Derek and Brooke are willing to go to make the racing happen.