The characters had to race across the country, iirc the organizers of the race all had something to compel each driver to stay in the race.
It aired on a holiday weekend and they showed the fort two or three episodes like 3 or 4 times over the weekend and said they were going to cancel it because each time they aired the episodes viewership was less and less… well duh it was the same couple episodes over and over. I do not think episode 4 ever aired.