ExCeL London

Yeah, it was an interesting thing to see and obviously effectively it's two exhibition centers and obviously there's at the end ...

Th- that building in the middle is the entrance to the exhibition centers, and it reminds me of Formula E's race at the London Excel where obviously you race in an exhibition center, maybe a bit of inspiration from that.

And it's funny, Sam, you mentioned Sochi because obviously, you know, Formula 1 was set to be leaving Sochi anyway to go race at Igora Drive, just north of St. Petersburg, and obviously moving that to a normal circuit.

So interesting.

But they didn't.

They actually gave me a VIP ticket at the Excel Centre.

They built a racetrack.

It was indoors? Partially indoors.

But this was a nice way to go out.

I think those last 15 or so laps of that second race, where everything was in the balance, we were forgetting about Mitch Evans, who was still technically, like, everything literally had to go right for him to get that championship, but this is London Excel, this is Mitch Evans.

That didn't happen, but it was, it was very exciting.

Dare I say, for the pun, electric.

Yeah.

It was, it wa- there were 10,000 people in the Excel Arena.

And, um- ...

the boxing hall, and it was half green, half Flag of St. George, and it was extraordinary.

And she knew who was there and she knew that they loved her and she knew they'd been there for her through everything.

These are everyone around me right now in the Excel Arena in 2012.

These are with me through the heartbreak of Rio.

You saved me when I turned pro.

yeah.

And they did it outside at the Excel Centre in London.

Do

you remember when the jumbo jet flew over as the Star Destroyer came in on that huge Metacinema screen?

But just having somebody who could be the best in the world felt new to us.

Did you get that feeling when you walked into the Excel Arena that afternoon that this was somebody who had the weight of their entire country's expectations on their shoulders?

You're kind of just focusing on yourself.

But I remember I fought Queen Underwood a couple of days before.

Yeah, we're on a site in the Royal Docks.

Nearest station is Pontoon Dock on the DLR for people to help kind of with the geography near the Excel Centre.

And it really represents the wild west of industrial sites that I grew up in.

And for me, that carries a lot of love, even if for a lot of people, it's a bit rough around the edges.