Week 10 of The Apprentice, this week the candidates meet up at a breakers yard and boy were they in for a surprise. Surrounded by rusting old heaps, the candidates were told they will be selling far higher calibre cars, as Ferrari’s Aston Martin’s Lamborghini’s and Spyker’s cruised into the yard. At the yard, the teams were left to choose two models each which they can then rent out for a driving experience. The team that makes the most money wins!

Michael’s team chooses the Ferrari and the Spyker whilst Lee chose the Aston Martin and plumped for the ultra expensive Zonda at nearly £2750 pounds a day, eek!

However, Michael is not such a petrol head and claims he doesn’t really like cars, let alone know anything about them. This carries over to his placement of the Ferrari, when he chooses a back street to try and sell the experience. After not receiving any interest, Michael decides to move to a different location. Michael moved the Ferrari to a fruit and veg market, believing that would be a better place to sell. Why, god only knows. He nearly manages to get someone interested until he mentioned the insurance deposit of £5000! The potential customer then turned on his heels and ran away, with Michael trying to chase him down the road, oh dear. Claire is off to a flying start though, selling experiences for the Spyker.

Over on Lee’s team, the Zonda is parked up outside the London stock exchange, but due to the price, it’s providing hard for Lee to sell the experience. Into in the afternoon, Lee finally manages to sell an experience and is elated with the result.

As the day turns to night, both teams are still desperate for sales. Lucinda, having called the Aston Martin a Zonda and the Zonda a Zona (a car yet to be manufactured) managed to sell an hour long experience. Additionally in the final dying moments, Alex gets a call from a customer he spoke to earlier in the day to confirm an experience worth £5000!

Back at the boardroom, Lucinda was claiming she had been pushed to one side in the team throughout the task. Michael came under fire for not actually making a sale throughout the whole day. To the figures and Lee’s team took the victory with over £11,000 worth of sales, of which a very impressive £8,000 came from Alex! As a reward, they were treated to a wine tasting session.

Discussing where things went wrong, Michael as ever believed that he was not wrong and Helene should go. In the boardroom, Sir Alan directs his first question at Michael “what are you actually good at”, to which he replied “sales”. I don’t think so Michael! Now onto Helene and Sir Alan claims he sees nothing from her and that Claire has a mouth on her, but can sell. Sir Alan states how Michael is young and still has a lot to learn. He sends them away for a chance to think about them.

Called back to the boardroom, and the candidates are required to justify their existence. After discussion, Sir Alan revealed that Claire has performed the best out of the three over the last ten weeks and is safe this week. He is then faced with a dilemma between Helene and Michael, but decides that Michael’s time is finally up, so Michael you’re fired!

So Michael has finally run out of luck. Having been in the final three for the last three weeks, Michael has been fired! Are you happy with the result? Want to air your view? Head over to the forum now and leave your comments >>