Episode
How Do They Do It?: 24 Hours of Daytona, Rum
Overview
How do they keep the cars of Daytona on track for 24 hours of high speed racing, and how do they turn the sweetest sugar cane into world-renowned Caribbean rum?
Details
- Series
- How Do They Do It?
- Season
- Season 8
- Episode
- Episode 11
- Air date
- 2011-10-18
- Runtime
- 22 min
Episode context
24 Hours of Daytona, Rum is Episode 11 in Season 8 of How Do They Do It?. It aired on 2011-10-18. The runtime is 22 min.
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