Mission Ignition: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

Mission Ignition will give two teams of amateur car enthusiasts the opportunity to drive off in their dream car - however they'll have to rebuild it first.

This show will see classic car collecting, amateur racing driver Howard Donald and three time Indianapolis 500 winner and four-time IndyCar Series champion Dario Franchitti each lead a team of passionate petrol heads, guiding them to the finish line and hopefully the win.

In each episode two classic cars will be turned into a giant jigsaw puzzle with Franchitti and Donald and their teams battling it out to put their car back together with the first team to rebuild it and start their engine getting to keep it.

Series details

• Title: Mission Ignition
• Format: Reality
• Language: English
• Premiere date: 2019-03-30
• Status in TVmaze: To Be Determined
• Network listed by TVmaze: Channel 4
• Network country: United Kingdom
• Typical episode runtime: 60 minutes
• TVMaze ID: 37684
• TVDB ID: 361661

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 2019-03-30; final listed air date 2019-04-20; episode order: 4.

Source and licence

Adapted from Mission Ignition on TVmaze. The synopsis is reproduced as plain text; catalogue facts, cast and season records are selected and reformatted. This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, following the TVmaze API licence. Network and web-channel credits identify the service listed in this source; they do not establish current streaming availability.