Royal Automobile Club

I knew he was doing it before he did it.

Shall I tell you how? I went to host something at the RAC Club in London with Perry.

Perry and I co-hosted it.

Because I bet you could sell whatever it was.

who did it for one series.

And I'll tell you what happened that day.

I go to the RAC Club in Pall Mall to co-host this event.

with Perry, and the event was being held by the Caravan Club, who are, like the Kennel Club and all these things that have been going for years, vastly wealthy.

But the first managing director of Rolls-Royce was a fellow named Claude Johnson.

He was head of the Royal Automobile Club.

And he worked for Rolls.

And he was the first managing director of Rolls-Royce.

It was the sort of mob scene which would have made David W. Griffith stream with delight.

And it looked, George says, like guest night at the Royal Automobile Club.

But as I say, we must remember, he was overwrought.

It is difficult to say what precisely would have been the correct behavior of your polished man of the world in such a situation.

amazing that this has been going on all night people have been coming and going as tradition here dictates quite a lot of people coming in as we were leaving last night at the end of our full live coverage at 10 o'clock the place was absolutely buzzing people coming from a Saturday night meal but yesterday, by far the most people that I've seen in all the years that we've been covering this race, the 27th running of this race for the Fermi Veleth Trophy.

We haven't been here for all of those, a rich history of endurance racing by the Royal Automobile Club Catalunya.

Yesterday, during the day, the panic was buzzing the tunnel that we used to go backwards and forwards to our commentary position here in the Global Broadcast Centre.

was always busy michelin giving away used tires which people were happily snapping up and rolling along back to their cars wherever they were parked or to the railway station just over the back of the grandstand that we're in here for our commentary point and as i mentioned earlier it seems that the grandstand down by turn 10 was very popular yesterday but also i'm already noticing that we are getting people in the amphitheater grandstands as well as the sun begins to light up that area people getting a little bit of heat from that more pit stops down in The lane and the Holmgaard Motorsport Porsche in the lane.

They must be soaking up some of his time under the Code 60, which strategically is a really good idea.

And even though they've lost a bit of time there, getting Oleksiy... uh kirishenko into the car strategically is very good indeed if they need to burn some of his race time and that they knew by the nature of the

incident bringing out the code 60 it was not going to be a short code 60. right now the Ferrari is still, it's just about to be loaded onto the Royal Automobile Club of Catalonia flatbed.

There's still barrier repair going on and things like that.

And we have got a course vehicle being scrambled from behind the grandstand as well as the flatbed.

Royal Automobile Club of Catalunya are hosts here.

The RACC.

already got the nissan navara pickup truck there which is one of the circuit vehicles and exactly what we were talking about jp what we know about that leisure team is that whatever needs doing when that car eventually gets back to the pit again if this is the first time you've watched any Michelin 24H series racing that car can't get back to the pits the fact that it's had outside assistance doesn't render it out of the race in fact quite the reverse preventing get it back get it fixed get it back out there again that's what you paid your money for get out there and do some more laps

Got a little way to go yet, though, before cars can come in for more fuel.

And still the clean-up goes on at Turn 3.

The Ligier has gone, but the officials from the Royal Automobile Club of Catalunya are just checking to make sure there's no residue of any liquid on the circuit, on the outside there.

That's a high-speed turn in there, and it would be on the loaded side of the car, so the Michelin tyres that are doing all the hard work would be potentially losing their grip.

Overdrive.

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Flying Bor-

Royal, Royal Automobile Club.

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Flying Bor says, "The problem in Iran is that moderates and liberals..." Oh, come on.

And presumably, you get to swim in quite an empty place as well, which is a-

I swim in the Royal Automobile Club, which is, uh, closed sadly at the moment for re-refurbishment.

So we've, um, missed it.

But I, I also go to the Lansdowne Club, which I've been a member of for years.