Montgomery's Rolls Royce.
This is a piece of history.
I've never worked on a car this valuable.
You have to finish on time,
for Pete's sake.
I'm just going to be really tricky
and set the deadline even earlier.
Jamie, they've brought the deadline forward.
You are kidding. We've lost three weeks.
It's impossible. We go racing again.
Anthony, you and I are our drivers.
This feels great!
(UPBEAT MUSIC)
RICHARD VOICEOVER: It's nearly three years
since The Smallest Cog opened its doors.
The business still owes me a fortune.
I've been hiding bank statements
I'm basically running a social club!
So it's time for a big shake-up.
Clock in in the morning, clock onto a job.
The dawn of a new era.
But not everyone likes change.
I'm very nervous about all of it.
This isn't gonna tell me what to do! I'll tell you that for nothing.
We make history with our most important restoration yet.
Did Montgomery or Churchill ever imagine you sitting in it?
Probably not.
The work must be completed on time.
Oh, she's eager!
Can we race into a bright new future?
With me at the wheel?
Oh, oh, oh!
(UPBEAT MUSIC)
So, Kamla turns out
you're a bit of an accountant to the stars then,
how long have you worked for Johnny?
24 years.
I'm expecting a gold watch.
With our new manager in place,
things are looking up at The Cog,
so in an effort to promote the business,
my accountant Kamla has landed me a radio interview
with another of her clients, Mr Johnny Vaughan.
It's an opportunity to talk about, if nothing else is a bit of PR.
We can promote the company. Yes.
Get the word out there.
You know, now we've got a workshop manager.
Everything will be managed better.
And this could drum up more business.
(UPBEAT MUSIC)
Thank you. This way.
Hello. Richard and Kamla. We're here to see Johnny Vaughan.
Yeah.
Going in. Where am I? This one?
Yeah, this one, yeah.
Thank you very much, T.C.
Richard Hammond is here to talk about Richard Hammond's Workshop.
Is it a real business or TV business?
It is a real business, yes.
I feel like a mother hen watching over my boys.
(CHUCKLES)
How much do you restore cars? How bad can it get?
We do everything, Johnny.
From, um, just if you've backed into a bollard
in a supermarket car park to if it's incredibly valuable,
and needs rebuilding from the ground up.
Those are the jobs we love. OK.
I've got a 22-year-old Maserati. It's only done 15,000mi.
All the knobs in it, everything.
The housing around the steering,
they've got that rubber thing where it goes all sticky.
Alright, yes.
I think you might need new knobs, mate.
The two of these are getting on so well.
Um, I might actually get, um,
two BFF bracelets with each other's names
on and give them one of each.
(CHUCKLES)
Bring it down to The Smallest Cog,
which is on the Rotherwas Estate in Hereford.
Bring it along we'll have a look.
So, I can pop by
and you can sort this out or help me sort it out.
Yes. We can have a cup of tea whilst looking at.
OK, OK. Richard Hammond, ladies and gentlemen.
Thank you.
Nice to see you.
(TENSE MUSIC)
So, Richard's out touting for work as he should be,
which is really good,
but this Rolls Royce they've just brought
the deadline forward by three weeks.
So, even though we've brought Matt in,
we're not gonna make it
we've got no chance,
so I need more hands-on deck.
Luckily for me,
I know a guy which is absolutely fantastic
on the body work and paint side, Callum,
so I gave him a call yesterday, and luckily, he said yes,
so he's coming in today and hopefully fingers crossed,
we get it finished.
We've got no choice, we have to get it done.
We've got no choice.
Good morning. Good morning.
How are we? good. Thanks for coming, mate.
Come on through and I'll show you how we're doing.
No problem.
So, this is it. This is the car we've got to get finished.
(DRAMATIC MUSIC)
It's just a cool car, isn't it?
I just want to get cracking.
The Rolls-Royce
is the most important car
I've ever done, ever.
Now we got Callum helping Matt,
we've got a fighting chance of getting that car ready for D-Day.
If we let those veterans down,
I would have to hang up my spray gun.
So, I'm really glad we've got some help
to get it finished, get it done.
(CHEERFUL MUSIC)
I'm out and about today and, um,
one of the little missions
I'm on is to visit my old friend
Richard Hammond.
Now, Jamie, the new manager at The Smallest Cog,
he has said, quite rightly,
that if you want to go racing,
you're gonna have to fund it
and it's not coming out of Cog money.
That means no racing.
And that means a very unhappy Little Richard.
And we don't want that,
do we, because he can be a scratchy little fluff cat
if he doesn't get his own way.
So, I've had an idea for the race car, i.e. sponsorship.
Right. Let's have you.
Oh, my lord, it fits.
(CHUCKLES)
Oh, yes. Begin. Oh!
(UPBEAT MUSIC)
Oh, I've got that going off the track feeling.
No. I'm on the grass but...
Oh, yes.
This is much more like the real thing.
Hammond.
Richard.
Hello? Hammond.
Hello? Up there? Where are you?
I'm up here. I'm up on the mezzanine.
Ah! Hello.
Oh, I see. What's this?
Well, now this is me.
Is this a toy or is this serious work?
This is me taking very seriously
the fact that I will be representing The Smallest Cog
at the wheel of our race car soon.
And I've realised I don't know my way around any race tracks.
So, this is, er, Oulton Park.
This is Oulton Park. I'm learning it.
Ready for when I... I'm even talking to you whilst
staying broadly on the track.
I'm glad you're taking it seriously.
Why are you here?
I've been doing a little bit of blue sky
out of the box, thinking.
Have you as Global Director of PR?
Yes, indeed. Your new manager...
Yes. ..Mr Pockett...
Yes.
..is now hanging on to some funds, as you know.
So, you can't take any money out for the car.
So, the idea is we need some global sponsors
with big Wonga to pay for you and the car.
We'll have some event or something
and invite a couple of potential sponsors round,
maybe give them a little glass of prosecco,
and then you can say, look,
you can have your, um, logo here, you can have it there.
Might raise some proper money. Yes.
Well, I mean, to pay for this toy for a start.
Mate, that is actually not a bad idea.
I think that is worth investigating.
Alright, Richard, give it some thought.
Give it the full majesty of your mind,
and I will leave you in your teenage bedroom
to do one of the things that teenagers do
in their bedrooms and I'll go make myself a coffee.
OK. Cheers.
I could be a bit sulky about Jamie refusing to let
The Smallest Cog bankroll our racing efforts,
but I kind of get it.
It's fair enough.
I mean, there's no point in him making the business profitable
and then me squandering
it all on playing race cars on the weekends.
And Zog is on to something with his sponsorship idea.
We have raised sponsorship money before, albeit in a small way,
but maybe with my little famous face involved,
we can up the amounts and actually cover the costs.
Though obviously if we are gonna up the game and raise more money,
we will have to up our game on the racetrack.
I've crashed, into a wall!
(UPBEAT MUSIC)
Waiting for a visitor today, Johnny Vaughan,
radio and TV presenting legend,
he said he'd got a Maserati that needed some work.
So, um, he's bringing it in, which is good.
You know, I mean, would be quite nice if we became, you know,
workshop to the celebrities, to the stars.
They've all got cars, haven't they? They'd quite like them done.
We'll try it out on Johnny.
You're ready?
You alright? Morning.
All ready for our celebrity, er, customer,
Johnny Vaughan arriving shortly?
Be respectful, but don't overdo it.
We'll be good, we'll behave.
No red carpet then? You have met celebrities before.
Have we? Oh, yeah...
And look where that got us.
(LAUGHTER)
Oh, I like the look of it. Looks like a Bond villain car.
Oh, it's the proper thing, isn't it?
Hello, how are you? Yeah.
What is the problem, talk us through it again.
You talked me through it but we were on the radio
and I wasn't listening.
OK, so the first problem is all these buttons are sticky.
All of them. And the surface here.
I remember, sticky buttons. Feel, feel.
And-and also, this is a cold day... Oh, that is...
..so this is not at maximum stickiness.
Also, other thing is there's always an orange
engine warning light is always on.
I think that's it.
Have you crashed it, is there any damage?
Are we... bodily it's all good? No, no...
..this was the one my dog crashed.
English bulldog, um, Harvey my first one.
Yes. Exactly how did he come to crash your car?
I've stopped the car in a layby, in a parking zone
and for some reason I'd put it in neutral
and I went round the back of the car trying to get him out.
He's now jumped over.
As he jumped over, he's nudged the stick into drive.
Wait, and you're in the passenger seat?
I'm in the passenger seat.
He now sits on the accelerator.
Genius. He is now driving. Yeah.
With his ass on the accelerator. Yeah.
So, we're now accelerating at maximum.
So, we've hit a Renault Megane,
which hit a Golf GTI, which hit a BMW 540,
and then the BMW then hits a skip and the whole lot stops.
How did the police respond to that story then?
Um, honestly my dog was driving.
No, I called up the insurance people I said am I insured for that,
and he said, no I'm sorry he's not a named driver.
(LAUGHS)
Tea. Let's go and have some tea.
(UPBEAT MUSIC)
Johnny Vaughn's Maserati. Oh, what a thing.
It's got its sticky gearstick knob and button situation.
I have looked into it.
You can send it all off to a specialised place
and have it all done, deep clean, blah, blah, blah.
But I've got a plan that I think might work,
so we're gonna give that a go first.
We've got this very special chemical here,
which is, um, used by aerospace industries.
Very special, NASA, I do believe.
It's kitchen cleaner, but I think it's gonna do the job.
And I reckon it's the plastic melted.
This is the oils in that plastic. It's got hot in the sun.
That's working now look at that.
Better than sending it off.
That stuff probably cost less than the postage to send it off.
We'll rebrand this now made in Italy Maserati button cleaner
420 pound a bottle.
The thing is, Richard really keen to get this job done
and done right,
because celebrity jobs
could be a really nice niche market for the Cog.
And yes, yes, they've all got plenty of money,
it's more about trust.
They want to take their cars somewhere they can trust
and that's good for them, good for us, and good for Richard.
That's my work done and a job well done.
No more stickiness.
Next thing is I've got to hand it over
to Isaac to sort out the electrical issues,
and on an old Italian car well, that's gonna be fun.
Best of luck, Isaac.
(UPBEAT MUSIC)
So, I'm grabbing a few minutes of peace.
A few rare minutes of peace in my workshop at home,
um, to try and advance this project, which has gone nowhere in weeks.
Also, to clear my mind,
because, er, we have coming up
tomorrow night Zog's sponsorship event.
I need to raise at least ten grand,
just to cover costs for the next few races.
And it all depends on how Zog's event goes down.
Sadly, Zog can't join us for the event.
Which is a shame 'cause I can't laugh at him if it goes wrong.
On the plus side, it means
we're roughly half of our champagne consumption.
I hope it does go well because without money coming in,
it could be a premature end to my racing ambitions.
Right, next shock absorber. That goes over here.
(UPBEAT MUSIC)
The biggest problem we got
with this car is the airbag light,
because with that on
you can't have an MOT.
It's not safe to drive.
So, we are on our way to go and see Andy,
the auto electrician with his, hopefully,
his new computer that should be able to sort this,
er, airbag issue out.
There we go. We're in. Hello.
How are you doing, Isaac? All good. Thank you, you?
I like it in here. Look at all the bits and kit.
It's getting there.
So, this has got, er, airbag issue?
Yep. Still got the light on.
So, what we're gonna do, we're gonna get the key.
And we're just gonna get the tester and plug him into the OBD.
OK. And see what happens.
Brilliant job.
(UPBEAT MUSIC)
We're definitely plugged in there, aren't we?
Yeah.
Because we've got no communications whatsoever through the OBD.
No.
We're gonna have to go and check some fuses
because we've got no communications whatsoever.
The quick visit
to just gently plug it in has escalated a little bit.
We've checked all the fuses.
We checked all the basics, but we cannot get into the airbag.
Now, hopefully the worst scenario
is I think take the airbag module out,
get a replacement one, which is gonna be silly money,
or get it repaired and redone.
See you soon.
Take care mate, take care, see you soon.
Right, so that wasn't very successful at all.
That's not what I wanted.
If we can work out what it is
with that module and pinpoint it,
hopefully, it'll be an efficient fix.
But I'm not... I'm not making any promises to anyone.
If I can't work this out and sort it out,
we'll end up having to send it off to a specialist,
which isn't very good
for the start of the new celebrity venture
for the workshop.
(CHEERFUL MUSIC)
It's brilliant seeing our little MGB here
in the rotunda at the RAC.
It's where we launched the Delahaye, when we'd done that.
This has had some very posh racing cars.
So, Zog's invited a load of people from around the motor industry,
all sorts of corners of it,
to come along for a drinks reception this evening
with a view to selling sponsorship on this car
to see if I can cover the costs of racing again this year.
It's the only way we can afford to do it.
(CHEERFUL MUSIC)
Ah! Team! Enter.
Guests are invited.
Our job is before they get here,
we've got to put the stickers on the car
in the places we agreed and then cover the car.
Lovely. Wing left.
Rear window right, drivers' side.
Rear window passenger side.
Rear left. Very back.
Right, so hang on, you've messed it up
so that bit goes on the body.
So, you want this bit... No.
No nope no?
That bit goes there, five is wrong,
that can't go on, you wouldn't be able to see out, would you?
That's down here.
Right. That is the car done.
All the opportunities are indicated according to the map.
Last thing to do because they're going to be here
in a minute, let's get a cover on it.
(CHEERFUL MUSIC)
Thank you for making it. How are you, you OK?
They're looking for sponsorship, Richard's invited you here
he said he could more or less guarantee on you
for chipping in 50k.
We get you another champagne.
Thank you for coming this evening, I'm very glad you could.
I'm excited, it's going to be standing round
and drink, help yourself.
Yes, we've met before, nice to see you.
(HITS WINE GLASS)
Do you realise it's the first time I've ever actually done that,
and it works?
So, if you'd like to follow me, come through here to the rotunda.
Follow me.
Thank you for coming first of all, everybody.
The reason I've invited you, er,
to ply you with drops of free champagne,
is to announce, first of all,
announcement is that The Smallest Cog
classic car restoration workshop last year we went racing,
in an MGB GT.
And the good and exciting news for us
is that I wanted to share is that we are doing it again this year.
There have been some changes to the drivers.
Anthony will once again be racing,
but he'll be joined by as his co-driver, me.
We've outlined the opportunities for sponsorship on our car.
We've marked it up with places where your logo could be,
everywhere where it says your name here.
We have set up a ballot box,
which is down by the room where we were as you came in.
You'll find next to it are cards
referring to each of these spots on the car.
They will be sealed. We will put them in the box.
We'll have a look at them over the next few days
and obviously be in touch with the successful bidders.
So, have a lovely evening. Thank you for coming.
The bar remains open.
If you do feel like sponsoring forms are over there.
Thank you for coming.
(APPLAUSE)
(CHEERFUL MUSIC)
I thought it was a brilliant speech.
He delivered it well,
and I'm confident we'll get a few sponsors.
I could hear a few mumbles in the background.
Some positive words. So, we shall find out.
(LAUGHTER)
Oh, yes. Are you modelling.
You are actually modelling. Have you got a sticker?
I'm just showing this here, that. There they.
Have you sold it yet? Not yet.
You've literally sold your ass. We're selling it for the acre.
We could be quids in here.
By the acre you'll make a lot of money.
We could retire on this.
I'm telling you. (LAUGHTER)
There is someone filling one in right now.
Is it... is it?
Is there stuff in there? Ooh...
Is there actually some in there? It's a bit weighty?
There is weight in there.
I think it worked, I really do.
But the fact of the matter is, you look after that.
Yeah. Take it home with you.
Will do. I'll see you at the workshop...
..tomorrow sometime. Yeah.
But meanwhile, I've got important work down there
in or near the bar.
Yeah. Well done.
Thank you. Cheers, Rich.
Good job. That was good.
That was worth doing. See you tomorrow.
Maybe. Probs.
Don't get drunk. No.
(UPBEAT MUSIC)
Right.
Team, these are the envelopes from our little box at the RAC.
These are the bids to be our sponsors.
There is the, Isaac, um, blue Peter style thermometer.
Right. I'm going to open mine first.
Drum roll.
100 pounds. 100 pounds?
For location 14.
100 pounds to be on Neil's rear.
Oh!
That's 100 pounds.
Neil Greenhouse.
I wonder what the rest of me would be worth.
I sold your backside for 100 pounds.
Oh!
Oh. Alright.
On the boot.
250 pounds.
I've beaten you, mate.
I'm having a sticker put upon my helmet.
500 pounds. Let's have another one!
We're half-way to 1,000.
15, tea mugs.
15, tea mugs. Mugs.
OK, that's the mugs.
Tea mugs, 200 pounds.
Oh, hey, that's not bad. Is it? That's not bad for a tea mug.
1,000 pounds.
Oh, hello.
Fill in the next one, Isaac.
Big ones now. That's now, you see.
Spot number one.
Where is that?
Bonnet. Bonnet!
500 pounds.
Two, which is the roof, and seven, which is the rear left.
2,000 pounds for each one.
This is four grand. He's gone off the top of his little thing.
Wow.
Four grand. Yes.
Thank you chaps, that is...
Is that the last envelope?
No, no. One more to go.
Well, wait a minute. Er...
Ooh, now that is interesting.
14,400 pounds for the rear right.
2,600 pounds for the pockets
Seriously thousands? Thousands?
I'm lost... I'm lost for words.
Isaac. What does that come to?
Oh..
22.
Whoa. What?
22?
22,900 pounds.
Just shy of 23,000 pounds.
That's a lot of money. We are covered for racing.
That is incredible.
So, now we've got to spend their money wisely for them,
by doing well and also for our one sake,
our point is to demonstrate
that this is us, come and us, we are great.
Because look our car looks fantastic
and with all these cool sponsors on it and look at us,
we're doing alright.
Brilliant. Well done, everybody.
Good. Carry on. Good.
Let's get back to work. Yep.
Well, that, um, that was a surprise.
I thought it might, you know, go towards transport or something.
I didn't think it would be...
it turned out to be quite significant.
That's-that's a lot.
Does bring a bit of pressure. Now, we've got to deliver.
It's-it's a bit more serious now.
Johnny's Maserati.
We took it to an auto electrician.
He couldn't communicate with it,
and he's never dealt with anything like that before.
And it's always good when they start saying,
oh, it-it needs to be used with Ferrari Diagnostics,
which, no, that's just scary,
we don't want to be involved in that.
That's thousands of thousands of pounds of nightmare.
So, after quite a lot of research,
it all leads to the airbag module itself.
So, we take that one out,
swap this over, and fingers crossed the airbag light will be out
and then we can finally get the car out the workshop.
Right come on Maserati, play ball here.
(UPBEAT MUSIC)
Now, all that's left to do is fit this one.
And hopefully, this solves our issue.
I hope this works.
Here we go. Maserati. Alright. Come on.
(ENGINE REVS)
It works.
All the lights out. Look at that.
And hopefully Harvey the dog is watching over the car now
in doggie heaven and he loves it.
Right, so now I've got to put all the interior back in,
and then we can service it and it can go.
Finally.
Right, I'm going for a lie-down.
(TENSE MUSIC)
It is race weekend.
I'm excited.
Genuinely, I'm not.
I'm-I'm anxious, but it's a good excited.
There is pressure...
obviously.
I've only ever driven the car once.
I don't particularly want to crash it. It's my car.
Also, I'd be letting the guys down rather badly.
And also of course now
I'd be letting our new sponsors down rather badly.
They haven't put their money into our race team
for me to throw the thing at the pit lane wall
at the first opportunity.
Oh, here it is. Oulton Park.
Morning. Good morning.
How are you feeling? Alright.
It's gonna be easier when we've got the car.
While we've been busy securing sponsorship,
our resident motorsport guru, Ric,
has been doing some last-minute fine-tuning to the MGB.
I think that's him. That's Ric.
There he is. There he is.
Which one's the one on 'Star Wars'? What gives you advice?
Is it Yoda?
He is our Yoda. Yoda!
Hello. Welcome mate, nice to see ya.
Right, let's have a look at it.
Do we look professional? We do.
So, the purpose of today race day tomorrow,
testing day today.
We're testing the car,
giving it a shakedown, learning about it.
But we're also testing us,
'cause you've driven the car a fair bit.
I've only driven the car once
with neither of us driven at Oulton Park.
Is that bad that we haven't driven at Oulton Park or is it alright?
It's a big, sharp learning curve.
OK, sharp learning curve for us.
(UPBEAT MUSIC)
Here we are again, we're at another race track.
I had a chat with my old racing teacher, Abby Eaton,
and she said all the tracks we've done in the past
are probably difficulty six out of ten,
Oulton is an eight out of ten,
which automatically I felt sick.
It's not my first time driving,
Doris the MG, it's Richard's first time,
so I feel the pressure has shifted slightly to him,
and everyone here is gonna be watching him more than me.
(GROANS)
Right.
No rivalry. But I don't want Richard Hammond to beat me.
I'm still going out for a quicker time.
My plan is gonna get out and drive as close to granny pace
as I dare, feel my way into it slowly.
Hammond, do not overdo it.
Go steady.
I'll try.
Well, not too steady.
This is it then, I'm going out on the track for real now,
rather than the last few times I've done it...
on the computer.
This is weird.
Oh, this is glorious.
Here he comes.
Going well, isn't he?
(LAUGHS) This is superb.
Interesting to see what this lap is.
I thought we weren't timing this.
We're not. Well, you are.
There's no competition at all, obviously.
The thing is, at the end of the day,
you don't want, you know, Niki Lauda
and James Hunt type rivalry.
But a little bit of rivalry isn't a bad thing.
It's Friday and everyone has gone racing.
We still got this Rolls-Royce to do today,
so it's not the best for them to be going away.
It's gonna be a bit of a mammoth hill to climb.
We just haven't got the time.
We're so far behind at the moment.
Deadline is
massively creeping up on us.
I suppose someone's got
to guard the fort. But...
yeah, we're under quite a lot of pressure now
I think, we haven't got long.
I hope when they come back from racing,
they're happy to all jump back on and get this out the door.
(UPBEAT MUSIC)
With a few laps under my belt,
I'm starting to get to grips with the car and the track.
So, it's time to hand over to young Anthony.
I reckon he won't be hanging around.
There he is.
Didn't sound very good.
Like he'd slowed down there.
Did it sound wrong? Didn't sound right.
It's coming in, coming in. Coming in, coming in.
Oh, dear.
Come out the last corner, she just went ba ba bang.
Oh, hello. Oh, that's not good, head gasket.
So, head gasket...
Oh, yeah, god. Gone, kerplunk!
So, um, if the head gasket has gone.
Do we have another head gasket?
Yes. I ordered it yesterday...
..it's there at the workshop.
Luckily for us, Ric's workshop is only 50 minutes down the road,
which gives us a fighting chance of fixing the engine
ahead of the race tomorrow.
But it's given us another problem.
This wasn't for us actually, about testing the car,
it's about testing us,
about Anthony learning the track
and me learning the track and the car.
So, we will be not as experienced as we should be
when we race tomorrow.
It's alright. Sponsors are looking.
It's nobody's fault. It's just one of those things.
The good thing is you can't see any cracks in the cylinder head
and no cracks in the block.
So, you need something that's fixable.
But even this is like open heart surgery
on the side of the road
because, you know, one little mistake now,
big consequences.
(TENSE MUSIC)
Professional. I like it, hello.
Good morning. Neil, morning.
Oh, morning.
How are we?
Yeah, not so bad. So, what is the score?
The score is...
I think we've got a good chance of doing the race.
Ric and Neil have replaced the head gasket,
but yesterday's problem also damaged the engine block,
so it's anybody's guess if the car will last the race.
I'm excited for this one.
I know we've got an issue with the car,
but we're here to race and today is not
about getting a trophy or nothing like that,
because it's Richard's first race.
It's my first time at Oulton and so if we can get to the finish,
I'll see that as an achievement again.
(UPBEAT MUSIC)
Excited. I'm genuinely looking forward it.
I'd be more relaxed if I could get this attached, go on.
Isaac. Yeah?
I can't get my thing on.
Could it be?
No, no, that way.
Ah, OK yeah, being a bit thick?
Hold on. Yeah. Right.
Like a pro.
There is a professional racing driver there
that I know really well.
I'm not saying he was a Stig, but he was.
And he's laughing at me.
I'm not laughing at you. Stop it!
I'm not!
In order to qualify for the race,
both Anthony and I need to get three timed laps under our belts.
Here we go. This is it.
Through these barriers out onto the track.
It's qualifying only Richard.
We're not racing yet, remember that.
This will be a timed lap, so he'll have a good time, I think.
Richard's very humble.
Despite what he says he does know what he's doing.
But watching him
just these first laps actually,
he was on in a bit of a crowd.
He's in an unfortunate spot
on the track in the qualifying session
with people in his way.
But he's managed to control that really well.
It's busy.
I don't think I got one clear lap,
in fact I didn't.
But it was great fun. I loved it.
Can't wait for the race.
Coming now, isn't he?
216.
216?
Bloody hell. That's a result.
(LAUGHS) 216,
4 seconds quicker than yesterday.
Where's he put us? Nice.
That's good, isn't it? That's really good.
Really good. That's good news.
Nice. Excellent. Good. Hurrah!
Our lap times mean we've qualified 4th in our class for the race.
Not a bad start.
And the engine hasn't exploded... yet.
So, plan will be I'm gonna be starting amidst 42 cars.
I will try very hard, first and foremost not to get clobbered.
Just survive, just survive the first few laps.
(ANNOUNCEMENT OVER PA)
(TENSE MUSIC)
My only real moment of relief
it's going to be getting through that first corner.
First right hander.
42 cars, piling into it as fast as they can go
on a freshly damp track on fairly cold tyres.
Right. Here we go.
God, this is brilliant.
Right. I am on the starting grid.
Red lights are on.
(UPBEAT MUSIC)
He's gone past quite a few cars.
That was brilliant!
Well, we're away, I'm doing it.
Sorry, mate. He's got a problem.
Come on, Doris.
Little Triumph. Wahey!
Go on lad!
(LAUGHS)
That's your lot there, Reg.
218. 218?
Good lad.
All I want to do is pass this.
Get it. Get it. Get it.
I'm gonna get it.
There you go! It's done.
That's you done.
Absolutely loving this.
(LAUGHS)
217 that one so he is going down.
Going quicker.
I think we call him in.
He's coming in and stop.
God, I loved that, every second of it.
Even when it rained.
Well done, mate, well done.
My job is done.
It's now up to Anthony to bring it home.
(UPBEAT MUSIC)
He's doing a 17. He's doing alright.
Good.
Third in class, 22nd.
Right. Third in class.
22nd overall, but third in class.
That's good. That's really good.
213. Bloody hell. Well done, Ant.
That is the chequered flag.
There it is!
Still third in class.
Go on fella, get it across the line this time.
And we are done.
There's Anthony!
Go on fella!
(LAUGHS)
We finished another race,
we finished another race.
Brilliant! We bloody did it!
Well done, everybody.
Whoa!
I could get used to this.
217.
Fab.
That's a result. That's P3. That's podium.
Richard did a great stint.
And Ant has done a really good job, spitting with rain.
You never know how much it's dropped on the-the next corner.
So, he's brought it home. It's great.
Really chuffed.
The-the whole team's done really well.
Pulled together.
I'm really proud of what they've achieved
over the weekend.
So, really well done.
Thank you very much.
Already got mine. Well, cheers all.
To racing and to finishing and to being placed.
Technically on the podium.
I mean, that's that-that is. That's good.
I've eaten mine already.
Did you just inhale it? It's actually gone.
That's two races in a row now we finished.
So, this is showing as a team we're progressing.
It's getting better and better.
I loved it, I loved being in the zone,
in the moment, away from it all.
And if the business' purpose now is for me to support that,
to make that possible, I'm happy.
This is brilliant fun. This is why we do it.
I need more of this, which means I need to make the business work.
Simple as that.
(UPBEAT MUSIC)
So, Johnny Vaughan's Maserati
managed the motorway fine
but I am now in snarling London traffic.
I want to go into his radio show and hand him the keys,
but I can't do that if his radio show is finished.
I've got to get right across from West London to the centre
in the rain, in an old Italian car, in time.
I have been given strict instructions
to get to the studio to be on Johnny Vaughn's show
and hand over the keys at 6:20.
Current ETA, 6:25.
Um... That'll do.
Oh, going in. Oh, I'm coming in!
Hello! Hello!
Radio X.
I'm Johnny Vaughan this is The 4till7 Thang.
Er, Richard Hammond's just literally walked to the studio.
Hi Richie. I walked in casually.
I hope you saw? It was really casual.
I kind of... did I sashay?
Yeah. The swagger of a champ.
The swagger. That's the word.
He had the swagger of a champion. I swaggered. Yeah.
How are you?
I haven't seen you since my trip to your workshop.
I'm very well indeed. Thank you. How are you?
Not too bad. Have you brought my car back?
Yes. What's in the envelope?
No don't tell me that's the invoice.
It's the bill, mate.
I thought this would be like showbiz freebie.
No, you see, this is the real world.
This is the bill in the brown envelope.
Oh, my god it actually is a tax.
You are a shocker.
And that's... Oh!
Oh, wait a second ladies and gentlemen,
it's an MOT test certificate!
Yay! Yay!!
It's parked just down the road. What?
Hazards on, that's alright in London, isn't it?
You can park where you like,
I don't know, I'm from Herefordshire.
(UPBEAT MUSIC)
Ford Escort RS2000.
What this car is,
is a big blue slice of humble pie.
Wahey, here we go.
We are properly up against it with the Rolls Royce.
This deadline is a deadline, you cannot move D-Day.
To the wire doesn't quite cover this one.
'Cause if there's a mistake now there's no fixing it.
(CLOSING MUSIC)
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