[Jeremy is reporting on the Goodwood Festival of Speed, where, as he previously noted, he was waved to by Elle Macpherson]
I went up the hill in the - there's a hill that you basically drive the, all the cars go up - and I went up in the McLaren Mercedes.
Both : [in unison] The SLR.
The new SLR.
Yeah. Stunning thing. And?
Well, I was still a bit drunk, so I have - there it is, look - um, I think... I have... I dunno.
So hang on, it - so you're probably the first UK journalist to get in that car.
Yeah.
We've been talking about it for what now, two years, probably?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And you went up the hill... drunk... waving at MacPherson Strut or whatever her name is out of the window.
I wasn't driving it, I was slumped in the passenger seat.
Oh, well, that's all right, then! Who was driving it?
Can you tell us anything about it?
It made a jolly loud noise in the condition I was in, that was for sure. It sounded like a Messerschmitt had mated with a Spitfire.
To your drunken brain at the time.
[imitates engine noise], only louder than that.
You wouldn't make much of a war correspondent, would you, standing there in war-torn wherever with a desolated landscape, "So, Jeremy, what happened?" "Dunno! Drunk, missed it. Found it like this."
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