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Unlike previous seasons, season 3 will have an extreme driving component in the hopes that it will make the drivers more confident in most day to day situations. The eight participants and their primary driving problems are: Shelby D'Souza, an extremely slow driver; Thomas Hobbs, an aspiring street racer; Denice Koke, a nervous and scared driver; Jennifer Kritzer, who has the worst record of any contestant thus far when it comes to hitting things and people while driving; Billie-Jean Leslie, a careless driver who in turn doesn't care she's careless; Marnie Maddison, a scared driver who doesn't like left turns; Ed Porter, an internal road rager, an issue which caused the break-up of his latest relationship; and Jason Zhang, who has a narrow focus of where he looks when he drives. Concerning passengers, Jason has the worst issue with his nominator husband, Adrian Fehr, who will continually grab the steering wheel when Jason drives. Given a set of directions, their first test to drive 60km to the Driver Rehabilitation Centre, which should take each a couple of hours. On the drive, each displays the reason why they are at driver's rehab. Their second test is a drive around Barrie Speedway's course in reverse in front of a capacity audience, as they are the half time show for the speedway's regular race. This test is to gauge their driving skills under pressure. The third and last test is a slow speed precision course, which will require a number of different driving skills to complete successfully. Based on self-professions, the experts have their harshest comments for Jennifer.

After given a lesson to do the task by Phillippe, the participants' first challenge is to do a peel out and then a donut around a stationary obstacle without hitting that obstacle. Both the attitude and the success of completing the challenge varies between participants. The second challenge is threading the eye of the needle where the participants are required to drive through a series of narrow archways on a slightly curving course at 40 kph or faster without hitting the arches. Many of the participants have issues with maintaining speed on this challenge, and the confident drivers realize that not taking advice from the experts may be an issue. And one participant uses a medical issue as the reason for predicted failure. The third challenge is the annual figure eight reversing challenge, where two participants are required to back up simultaneously through a course, and where there is only one section wide enough to pass. Because this challenge has proved to bring out the worst of the participants in the past, the course designers decided this year to build the course as a double heart. This challenge ends up bringing out the worst in one of the nominators. In the panel deliberation, the experts choose between the most improved versus the safest driver as the Centre's first graduate of the season.

With Denice Koke being named the first graduate of the season, there are seven participants remaining at the Centre. The seven are first given a lesson on parallel parking. They have no idea they will have to apply that lesson to the challenge of backing up and parallel parking a converted school bus through an obstacle-laden course. The participants are shocked to learn that they indeed are legally allowed to drive a school bus if the words "School Bus" are removed from the vehicle, if the bus is painted in non-school bus colors, and if all but four of the passenger seats are removed. Any passenger is even not required to wear a seat belt. For the challenge, the crew redesign it to accommodate the driving skills of some. The second challenge is a high speed skid and swerve test, where the participants are required to swerve into one of two lanes on which an obstacle will be removed at the last minute. The third challenge has the participants finding a limited number of open parking stalls in a parking lot. They will have to observe no parking signs and watch other "blocker" cars in the lot, which includes their favorite converted school bus. The participants are given an extra test on knowledge of basic road signs. And Dr. Gembora takes aside one participant and their nominator to see if there are deeper issues in their driver/passenger relationship that may be part of the driving problem. Before the panel deliberation, the participants state their case for graduation to the experts. The newest graduate is required to take a side trip before heading home.

At the last panel deliberation, Thomas Hobbs was named the second graduate - on the caveat that he move his car racing from the street to a race track - leaving six participants remaining at the Centre. The first challenge for the six is to balance a car on one side of a seesaw, with their nominator in another car on the opposite side of the seesaw. This challenge requires hair-trigger decisiveness and good communication. The second challenge has the participants in a simulated ice skid initiated by a third party. The catch?: the third party will not initiate the skid, testing driver nerves and reaction. This challenge is aborted when one the participants kills the car. The third challenge has the participants turning a car 360 degrees within an enclosed cross-shaped course. The challenge can be completed in 29 turns. The fourth challenge is one is driving a manual drive car. The course has a few turns, requiring shifting gears; a few stops, meaning that they have to drive from a cold start a few times; and a dead end requiring shifting from first gear to reverse. Those that have driven a manual drive before have an advantage. Will they use that advantage? Shelby gets a lesson in driving a different type of vehicle, one that he has wanted to drive since he was a kid. At the panel deliberation, there is a short list of two, but the panel decide to graduate the person who has shown the most increase in confidence.

With Marnie Maddison being named the third graduate, there are five participants left at the Centre in the running for the title of Canada's Worst Driver. After given a lesson in the task by Phillippe, the participants, as their first challenge, are required to do a 180 degree hand brake turn within an enclosed course. Most quickly learn the task but things may be a little different on the actual challenge. There end up being a few aspiring stunt drivers among the bunch. Their second challenge is to move a vehicle laterally on a 10 meter long course in both directions using a series of S-turns. There is added pressure in that the participants will go head to head with one of their fellow participants. Their third challenge has them off-roading in a 4x4, the course which includes what are called "whoopteedo"s which in turn can dislocate the driver's thumbs if they grasp the steering wheel in the traditional manner. They are required to drive the course both forward and in reverse. With the exception of Ed, each is given another participant as their passenger to see if that makes a difference in driving ability. The final challenge is the annual water tank challenge, where the participants are required to drive through a course smoothly, of else get doused by water mounted in a tank above the car. As usual, there is a lot of "fluid" driving. During the deliberation, the panel of experts decide between the most improved driver (which is their stated primary criterion for graduation) but someone who they feel is still unsafe, versus the combination safest and a highly improved driver.

At the last panel deliberation, the experts felt Shelby the most improved (their main criterion for graduation) but still not safe enough to return to public roads. Therefore, the panel named Billie-Jean Leslie as the most recent graduate, leaving four participants at the Centre. Their first challenge has them towing a trailer on a course that has a hairpin turn, a right turn, either a parallel parking section or a long straight reverse section, and a requirement to back into a parking space. One participant cannot finish, and one nominator tries to demonstrate that they can do the challenge better than their nominee. Their second challenge is a tight maze with poor visibility. They have to rely on a map posted at the start to maneuver around the maze. It is imperative that the participants copy down the map to complete the challenge successfully. The third challenge tests if they've learned to look where they want to go. It's a 40 kilometer per hour slalom course that in the distance at an unspecified time will signal a change in the course. Thus the drivers must look for the signal off in the distance, while peripherally checking both their speed and their immediate driving. With only seven possible attempts per participant, only one of the four completes the challenge. On other issues, Jennifer atones for a past hit and run. And Scott takes Jason and Adrian aside to observe their driving relationship and to offer them some advice. They are desperate for Jason to graduate at this panel deliberation, or else Jason may lose his job and they will definitely miss Adrian's sister's wedding. Will the panel oblige Jason and Adrian at the deliberation? The three non-graduates will be destined to participate in the season finale.

Ed Porter was named the most recent graduate, and with that there was an implication that he and his nominator ex-girlfriend, Elizabeth Cecchi, will make a new attempt at a relationship. That leaves three contenders for the title of Canada's Worst Driver: Shelby D'Souza, Jennifer Kritzer and Jason Zhang. Their first challenge is to drive a straight course at least at 40 kilometers per hour without hitting the concrete barriers on either side. There is a couple of inch clearance on either side. They have issues specifically with hitting on the passenger side, and one wants to quit the challenge. The second challenge is called the Mega Challenge, and uses skills required in most of the twenty-two challenges conducted thus far. The challenge requires three car changes. Nerves get the better of the participants, most of who treat the challenge more as a race. The final challenge takes the participants onto the streets of Barrie, Ontario. The challenge, using Andrew's pickup truck, simulates an actual driving exam with Andrew as the adjudicator. Although all four make at least one moving violation that would result in an automatic failure in a real driver's exam, the panel decide that two really should not possess and valid driver's license. But only one of the three is named Canada's Worst Driver.

The eight drivers and their nominators from the third season are not the worst this time around, but rather the experts. Their expertise, demonstrated through their driving challenges, is showing the 101 biggest problems on Canadian roads. One of those eight will at least no longer be able to demonstrate such as that person has since kept true to their word and given up driving altogether.