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Serena Williams serves up some fast times with a tennis racket and some yellow felt, but can she get up to speed in a race car?

We'll find out tonight when she and 11 fellow celebrities dreaming of life in the fast lane join six NASCAR drivers in the new reality show, "Fast Cars & Superstars -- The Gillette Young Guns Celebrity Race."

In tonight's first episode, Kurt Busch pushes NFL Hall of Famer John Elway to the limit in the cars.com car, Surfer Laird Hamilton confirms that nothing scares him and Williams screams her way to shattering her own personal challenge.

The show will explore the interaction of top young stock car drivers with stars from the world of sports, music and entertainment, featuring drama and competition on and off the race track. In each episode, viewers will watch celebrities train with a Gillette Young Guns driver.

"Fast Cars" culminates with a one-hour finale where the celebrities will be coached from the pits by their Gillette Young Guns instructors and compete against each other during a time-trial race.

The series will be hosted by ESPN anchor Kenny Mayne and co-hosted by former Cleveland Cavaliers center and current ESPN NASCAR analyst Brad Daugherty.

*Sigh*

Can't ESPN give Daugherty a job in a sport he knows?

Tonight on ABC (8:00-8:30PM, ET).

Joe Gibbs makes $6 million a year as an NFL head coach. He also owns a NASCAR team. That team has said it might not want to sign Dale Earnhardt Jr. because of Earnhardt's sponsorship deal with Anheuser-Busch. Something isn't right here.

Does Gibbs have any idea where the Washington Redskins get the money to pay his salary? Does he not understand that beer commercials on television and beer concessions at games put many millions of dollars into the NFL's coffers, and that the millions of dollars in his own bank account are soaked in beer?

Gibbs wouldn't have the money to own his own NASCAR team if the NFL weren't such a profitable endeavor, and the NFL wouldn't be such a profitable endeavor without alcohol. If Gibbs doesn't want to make money off alcohol, there's only one honorable thing for him to do: Resign from the Redskins.