Defence advocate Ian Kelcey admitted to a judge that his client was an "idiot".
He said the challenge to defend persistent bad driver Jack Henson-Jones was akin to climbing Mount Everest.
But Mr Kelcey needn't have worried about the herculean task.
A judge was persuaded to give Henson-Jones a chance.
The 21-year-old, of Lynton Road in Bedminster, pleaded guilty to dangerous driving and driving while disqualified and uninsured on March 28.
He admitted driving while disqualified, failing to stop for police, and driving an uninsured, dangerous vehicle without an MOT on April 9.
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He also admitted driving while disqualified and uninsured on June 8.
Judge James Patrick told Henson-Jones he was at real risk of being sent to prison.
But he said he was persuaded to defer sentence until March 22 - on the strict grounds Henson-Jones stays out of trouble.
The judge told him: "If in five months' time you have committed no other offences, then I will not send you to prison."
Henson-Jones was handed an interim driving ban.
Meabh McGee, prosecuting, told Bristol Crown Court police spotted Henson-Jones driving on East Hendry Road in March and he sped off from them at 50mph through a 30mph zone on a narrow road.
He was ultimately cut off in a cul-de-sac and police found him hiding behind a bush and arrested him.
The court Henson-Jones was bailed, but in April was arrested after driving while disqualified in Cornwall in a car with defective tyres.
Having being arrested and let go again, in June police spotted him driving while disqualified in Bedminster.
Though he drove off from police and abandoned the car he was arrested and admitted driving the car.
Mr Kelcey told the judge: "One might say I face an uphill challenge.
"One almost like Sir Edmund Hillary faced back in the 1950s.
"This man is an idiot.
"He has been told he is an idiot.
"He has been told that by his mother, who sits in court, and his girlfriend."
Mr Kelcey said, though, that his client had been influenced by others and had given away over £30,000 to "friends" in the last year.
Mr Kelcey urged the judge to give his client a chance.
He said: "He tells me he will not drive.
"He will take a taxi to and from work.
"If he did drive he would incur the wrath of others."
