The Thrill of Racing: A Day at Donington Park

I think to some degree we were all sort of slightly cacking ourselves today, you know what? We've taken on and obviously Donington that was meant to be our first race three or four weeks ago. Yeah, big engine problem and again that was a massive reality check again it's like you don't just turn up, you're not even guaranteed to start let alone come anywhere. So, I think all of us are sort of slightly pinching ourselves and saying, "You know how did we end up here? You know this is this for the Cog, um, is probably well." It's the last chance in this series of actually getting anywhere in a race, so it's a kind of massive day.

Anthony's Journey: From Go-Kart to Grid Placement

Anthony's journey has been amazing from you know not bad in a go-kart yes to actually you know potentially being on the grid. Um, and so yeah, this is proper fairy tale elements to it foreign, so this is what it all comes down to after all the building and all the prep of the car it comes down to this first race here he gets on here we are race one lap one. I can hear them coming they'll be down the Wellington Street in a sec go on that today there is breaking at the end of the Wellington Street get it tucked in there, it's right on the back side of my mini that is the first job done and dusted he's got her in the first lap he's in the race. This is what British Motorsport is all about.

The First Lap: A Turning Point

This is what I love about this series – it's like a proper fairy tale, you know? Where everyone starts from the back and then just sort of... magic happens. Well, today was no exception. Anthony got off to a blistering start, turning in 114s and 115s which is exactly what we wanted. He brought it in, downloaded what he learned about the car, Abby went off, did a quick driver change – she was turning in 112, which is confident, there's a 110 because she was soft pedaling because of the temperature yes, and eventually, it blew a core plug out the back.

Temperature Issues: A Lesson Learned

The temperature went right up so she stopped, cut it engine sounds fine but if she can turn in 110s consistently in it that's proper competitive that puts us in the top six overall regardless of class. It's a hell of a start, so yeah next season I mean you are a classic car restoration company have you now fully got the racing bug? Yeah, really badly, I think we all have it. It's just like the way you're lashing it together sometimes – fix yourself with gaffer and tie wraps and bits of cardboard and aluminum and making it work making it work and just keep going.

The Future of Smalls: Racing in a Full Season

So what is the future of Smalls? Called racing, full season next year. I'd like to do a season next year, I'd like to get this right and then we'll see. May not have been the fairy tale first race for the Corgs but I reckon Motorsport has got right underneath their skin, and we will see a lot more racing content from the smallest Cog in the future.

Behind the Scenes: Richard Hammond's Workshop

We've also been behind the scenes of Richard Hammond's Workshop today. And if you would like to watch that new show click the link in the description below where you'll head over to Discovery+ and trust us, it's one of the best shows out there right now. If you like this video, give it a thumbs up, I've been Mike, don't forget to subscribe to drivetribe foreign

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enforeign forward in the Journey of Richard Hammond and the smallest Cog after much building and testing they're going racing the mg is looking fresh with all the brand new sponsors on board but it has been the smoothest journey to get the car here this was supposed to be Race 2 in the calendar with race one being at Donington but there it had a bit of engine trouble and if you want to know all about that you can watch Richard Hammond's TV show on Discovery plus we put a link in the description below just in case you haven't watched the show let me give you some background on this car this was the last car Richard ever drove on Top Gear he bought the car from the production and thought I want to turn it into a race car he's done that and it's now here at Silverstone to go racing so qualifying is in roughly 20 minutes and as ever with everything race car it's all about the mad rush that just comes from scrutineering and there was a couple of tiny little things that need change but the engine man's here and after all the engine trouble that the NGB has been through I think they kind of want to get it warming up considering it's going to be ragged in the next 20 minutes so bit of a rush it's immediately gone a bit mental the announcer has said they've got two minutes to get to assembly so Rick Rude engine man of Richard have just pegged down in the engine to assembly Isaac's got all the kit with them but Anthony still back getting his clothes on and the RV it's going to be an intense session foreign Richard I wanted to chat before everything kicked off before we've known it you've qualified oh man it was I cannot tell you what I was insane so scrutineering it failed on the belts of the wrong way around they have to be the right way around because one of them has the label on they need to see it right it's a detail nitpicking but we had other stuff to get ready on the car before qualifying time was ticking qualifying's at 10 past and by 10-2 they're calling everyone if you don't join that queue you're not racing you know but we had to go over to scrutineering and get the ticket to show and swap the belts because of a body label yeah and so we were oversorting that and that's when Rick just said to me Rich if you're not in that queue in the car so we they were expecting us to come back here we're not in so we did last minute got in Anthony went out and blessed him nailed it 11302 which fastest he did in testing was 115 very nearly 116. I mean 116 is where he was sitting yeah I think he's benefiting massively from being in traffic because he's with similar paced cars now and he's well yeah I have adrenaline as well yeah absolutely right so he's nailed it so then we sent Abby out to deliberately drive slower because we want to qualify on Anthony's time because if if we qualify an Abby's time Anthony is starting the race yes so he'll be sitting there surrounded by a load of angry sharks and it'll be a horrible start to his first race so he's qualified in his position he's with another load of similar cars overall we're sitting 19th at a 35 and 15 class that's bloody Google there's four cars in class ahead of us and six cars in class behind us so you could get a poor dealing quick there is a genuine possibility getting placed in class are you ready for the worst episode of cribs ever this is the smallest cork RV so this is where the guys have been spending their race weekend this is where they've been sleeping here's the first little bunk bed situation we've got Neil underneath Anthony on top there's some slippers there I'm not going to touch them it smells okay in here not horrendous not amazing just okay over here we've got a lovely sofa and table set up and this converts into a double bed Andrew's taking this one but up here this is where the real action is this is Richard's there's no two ways about it it's a nest I'm seeing at least three different blankets of differing thicknesses and about eight different pillows in here the man definitely knows how to sleep and then looking around I'm counting one two three four GoPros let's just leave that in there director Marcus we knew that the cogs were gonna go racing you're Suddenly at the biggest Grand Prix track in the entirety of the UK it's fairly deep end both production wise and for the cold guys how do you think today's gonna go well I mean it has been a journey as you say and I think it's true of all of us both from the side of the cogs and Richard and on production side we underestimated okay you know I I personally also thought oh it's like going out for a nice Sunday day out isn't it perhaps you you know you'll sort of go a bit faster and you somebody wants to get by you go oh here you go it's really about dicing yeah a bit of dicing and oh yeah well done Roger and all that sort of stuff but you know so I'd got no idea that it was this intense and that they are people are this competitive so as you say we kind of learned along the way all of us um and so I guess it's become more and more scary okay so I think to some degree we were all sort of slightly cacking ourselves today you know what have we taken on and obviously Donington that was meant to be our first race three or four weeks ago yeah big engine problem and again that was a massive reality check again it's like you don't just turn up you're not even guaranteed to start let alone come anywhere so I think all of us are sort of slightly pinching ourselves and saying you know how did we end up here you know this is this for the Cog um is probably well it's the last chance in this series of actually you know getting anywhere in a race so it's a kind of massive day Anthony as well his journey has been amazing from you know not bad in a go-kart yes to actually you know potentially being on the grid um and so yeah this this is proper which what I love about this series is this sort of proper fairy tale elements to it foreign so this is what it all comes down to after all the building and all the prep of the car it comes down to this first race here he gets on here we are race one lap one I can hear them coming they'll be down the Wellington Street in a sec go on that today there is breaking at the end of the Wellington Street get it tucked in there it's right on the back side of my mini that is the first job done and dusted he's got her in the first lap he's in the race this is what British Motorsport is all about sitting in a completely deserted stand on an incredibly freezing cold windy Airfield watching all cars slowly overheat until one really overheats goes off and causes a red flag cheers to that on this occasion my energy drinks seem to give me the power of foresight because just two minutes later thank you good useful by very very bad news Abby swamped into the car from Anthony and she made up a couple of places they'd go up to around 27 28 from 29th after the pit stop but I've just been told the car has now stopped somewhere on track on the transponder on the timing there's a little exclamation mark which means the cars out there somewhere there is a problem all right so they've managed to recover the car and the cogs and engine man Rick are having a proper look at it turns out it did overheat to the point where the car cut out so it's not terminal just got a bit hot and decided it has had enough so it'll just be a case of I guess getting it back to the Cog having a real diagnosis of exactly what caused it to overheat and then go from there annoyingly Abby only got two or three laps in and she wasn't making her way up the field could have been a really good result but sadly it wasn't to be today Richard happy sad how did today go well the day went incredibly well up to a point yes um and it was a moment of crashing disappointment but in that race Anthony went out and was turning in 114's 115s which is exactly what we wanted brought it in brought it in downloaded what he learned about the car Abby went off we did a quick driver change she was turning in 112 which is confident there's a 110 because she was soft pedaling because of the temperature yes and eventually it blew a core plug out the back this temperature went right up so she stopped cut it engine sounds fine but if she can turn in 110s consistently in it that's proper competitive that puts us in the top six overall regardless of class it's a hell of a start so that would be like oh so that's got the potential to be a proper little car okay next season it will be so you're seeing next season I mean you are a classic car restoration company have you now fully got the racing bug yeah really badly I think we all have it's just I like the way you're lashing it together sometimes you fix yourself with gaffer and tie wraps and bits of cardboard and aluminum and making it work making it work and just keep going so what is the future of Smalls called racing full season next year I'd like to do a season next year I'd like to get this right and then we'll see so it may not have been the fairy tale first race for the korgs but I reckon Motorsport has got right underneath their skin and we will see a lot more racing content from the smallest Cog in the future we have been behind the scenes of Richard Hammond's Workshop today and if you would like to watch that new show click the link in the description below where you'll head over to Discovery plus and trust us it's one of the best shows out there right now if you like this video give it a thumbs up I've been Mike and don't forget to subscribe to drivetribe foreignforeign forward in the Journey of Richard Hammond and the smallest Cog after much building and testing they're going racing the mg is looking fresh with all the brand new sponsors on board but it has been the smoothest journey to get the car here this was supposed to be Race 2 in the calendar with race one being at Donington but there it had a bit of engine trouble and if you want to know all about that you can watch Richard Hammond's TV show on Discovery plus we put a link in the description below just in case you haven't watched the show let me give you some background on this car this was the last car Richard ever drove on Top Gear he bought the car from the production and thought I want to turn it into a race car he's done that and it's now here at Silverstone to go racing so qualifying is in roughly 20 minutes and as ever with everything race car it's all about the mad rush that just comes from scrutineering and there was a couple of tiny little things that need change but the engine man's here and after all the engine trouble that the NGB has been through I think they kind of want to get it warming up considering it's going to be ragged in the next 20 minutes so bit of a rush it's immediately gone a bit mental the announcer has said they've got two minutes to get to assembly so Rick Rude engine man of Richard have just pegged down in the engine to assembly Isaac's got all the kit with them but Anthony still back getting his clothes on and the RV it's going to be an intense session foreign Richard I wanted to chat before everything kicked off before we've known it you've qualified oh man it was I cannot tell you what I was insane so scrutineering it failed on the belts of the wrong way around they have to be the right way around because one of them has the label on they need to see it right it's a detail nitpicking but we had other stuff to get ready on the car before qualifying time was ticking qualifying's at 10 past and by 10-2 they're calling everyone if you don't join that queue you're not racing you know but we had to go over to scrutineering and get the ticket to show and swap the belts because of a body label yeah and so we were oversorting that and that's when Rick just said to me Rich if you're not in that queue in the car so we they were expecting us to come back here we're not in so we did last minute got in Anthony went out and blessed him nailed it 11302 which fastest he did in testing was 115 very nearly 116. I mean 116 is where he was sitting yeah I think he's benefiting massively from being in traffic because he's with similar paced cars now and he's well yeah I have adrenaline as well yeah absolutely right so he's nailed it so then we sent Abby out to deliberately drive slower because we want to qualify on Anthony's time because if if we qualify an Abby's time Anthony is starting the race yes so he'll be sitting there surrounded by a load of angry sharks and it'll be a horrible start to his first race so he's qualified in his position he's with another load of similar cars overall we're sitting 19th at a 35 and 15 class that's bloody Google there's four cars in class ahead of us and six cars in class behind us so you could get a poor dealing quick there is a genuine possibility getting placed in class are you ready for the worst episode of cribs ever this is the smallest cork RV so this is where the guys have been spending their race weekend this is where they've been sleeping here's the first little bunk bed situation we've got Neil underneath Anthony on top there's some slippers there I'm not going to touch them it smells okay in here not horrendous not amazing just okay over here we've got a lovely sofa and table set up and this converts into a double bed Andrew's taking this one but up here this is where the real action is this is Richard's there's no two ways about it it's a nest I'm seeing at least three different blankets of differing thicknesses and about eight different pillows in here the man definitely knows how to sleep and then looking around I'm counting one two three four GoPros let's just leave that in there director Marcus we knew that the cogs were gonna go racing you're Suddenly at the biggest Grand Prix track in the entirety of the UK it's fairly deep end both production wise and for the cold guys how do you think today's gonna go well I mean it has been a journey as you say and I think it's true of all of us both from the side of the cogs and Richard and on production side we underestimated okay you know I I personally also thought oh it's like going out for a nice Sunday day out isn't it perhaps you you know you'll sort of go a bit faster and you somebody wants to get by you go oh here you go it's really about dicing yeah a bit of dicing and oh yeah well done Roger and all that sort of stuff but you know so I'd got no idea that it was this intense and that they are people are this competitive so as you say we kind of learned along the way all of us um and so I guess it's become more and more scary okay so I think to some degree we were all sort of slightly cacking ourselves today you know what have we taken on and obviously Donington that was meant to be our first race three or four weeks ago yeah big engine problem and again that was a massive reality check again it's like you don't just turn up you're not even guaranteed to start let alone come anywhere so I think all of us are sort of slightly pinching ourselves and saying you know how did we end up here you know this is this for the Cog um is probably well it's the last chance in this series of actually you know getting anywhere in a race so it's a kind of massive day Anthony as well his journey has been amazing from you know not bad in a go-kart yes to actually you know potentially being on the grid um and so yeah this this is proper which what I love about this series is this sort of proper fairy tale elements to it foreign so this is what it all comes down to after all the building and all the prep of the car it comes down to this first race here he gets on here we are race one lap one I can hear them coming they'll be down the Wellington Street in a sec go on that today there is breaking at the end of the Wellington Street get it tucked in there it's right on the back side of my mini that is the first job done and dusted he's got her in the first lap he's in the race this is what British Motorsport is all about sitting in a completely deserted stand on an incredibly freezing cold windy Airfield watching all cars slowly overheat until one really overheats goes off and causes a red flag cheers to that on this occasion my energy drinks seem to give me the power of foresight because just two minutes later thank you good useful by very very bad news Abby swamped into the car from Anthony and she made up a couple of places they'd go up to around 27 28 from 29th after the pit stop but I've just been told the car has now stopped somewhere on track on the transponder on the timing there's a little exclamation mark which means the cars out there somewhere there is a problem all right so they've managed to recover the car and the cogs and engine man Rick are having a proper look at it turns out it did overheat to the point where the car cut out so it's not terminal just got a bit hot and decided it has had enough so it'll just be a case of I guess getting it back to the Cog having a real diagnosis of exactly what caused it to overheat and then go from there annoyingly Abby only got two or three laps in and she wasn't making her way up the field could have been a really good result but sadly it wasn't to be today Richard happy sad how did today go well the day went incredibly well up to a point yes um and it was a moment of crashing disappointment but in that race Anthony went out and was turning in 114's 115s which is exactly what we wanted brought it in brought it in downloaded what he learned about the car Abby went off we did a quick driver change she was turning in 112 which is confident there's a 110 because she was soft pedaling because of the temperature yes and eventually it blew a core plug out the back this temperature went right up so she stopped cut it engine sounds fine but if she can turn in 110s consistently in it that's proper competitive that puts us in the top six overall regardless of class it's a hell of a start so that would be like oh so that's got the potential to be a proper little car okay next season it will be so you're seeing next season I mean you are a classic car restoration company have you now fully got the racing bug yeah really badly I think we all have it's just I like the way you're lashing it together sometimes you fix yourself with gaffer and tie wraps and bits of cardboard and aluminum and making it work making it work and just keep going so what is the future of Smalls called racing full season next year I'd like to do a season next year I'd like to get this right and then we'll see so it may not have been the fairy tale first race for the korgs but I reckon Motorsport has got right underneath their skin and we will see a lot more racing content from the smallest Cog in the future we have been behind the scenes of Richard Hammond's Workshop today and if you would like to watch that new show click the link in the description below where you'll head over to Discovery plus and trust us it's one of the best shows out there right now if you like this video give it a thumbs up I've been Mike and don't forget to subscribe to drivetribe foreignforeign forward in the Journey of Richard Hammond and the smallest Cog after much building and testing they're going racing the mg is looking fresh with all the brand new sponsors on board but it has been the smoothest journey to get the car here this was supposed to be Race 2 in the calendar with race one being at Donington but there it had a bit of engine trouble and if you want to know all about that you can watch Richard Hammond's TV show on Discovery plus we put a link in the description below just in case you haven't watched the show let me give you some background on this car this was the last car Richard ever drove on Top Gear he bought the car from the production and thought I want to turn it into a race car he's done that and it's now here at Silverstone to go racing so qualifying is in roughly 20 minutes and as ever with everything race car it's all about the mad rush that just comes from scrutineering and there was a couple of tiny little things that need change but the engine man's here and after all the engine trouble that the NGB has been through I think they kind of want to get it warming up considering it's going to be ragged in the next 20 minutes so bit of a rush it's immediately gone a bit mental the announcer has said they've got two minutes to get to assembly so Rick Rude engine man of Richard have just pegged down in the engine to assembly Isaac's got all the kit with them but Anthony still back getting his clothes on and the RV it's going to be an intense session foreign Richard I wanted to chat before everything kicked off before we've known it you've qualified oh man it was I cannot tell you what I was insane so scrutineering it failed on the belts of the wrong way around they have to be the right way around because one of them has the label on they need to see it right it's a detail nitpicking but we had other stuff to get ready on the car before qualifying time was ticking qualifying's at 10 past and by 10-2 they're calling everyone if you don't join that queue you're not racing you know but we had to go over to scrutineering and get the ticket to show and swap the belts because of a body label yeah and so we were oversorting that and that's when Rick just said to me Rich if you're not in that queue in the car so we they were expecting us to come back here we're not in so we did last minute got in Anthony went out and blessed him nailed it 11302 which fastest he did in testing was 115 very nearly 116. I mean 116 is where he was sitting yeah I think he's benefiting massively from being in traffic because he's with similar paced cars now and he's well yeah I have adrenaline as well yeah absolutely right so he's nailed it so then we sent Abby out to deliberately drive slower because we want to qualify on Anthony's time because if if we qualify an Abby's time Anthony is starting the race yes so he'll be sitting there surrounded by a load of angry sharks and it'll be a horrible start to his first race so he's qualified in his position he's with another load of similar cars overall we're sitting 19th at a 35 and 15 class that's bloody Google there's four cars in class ahead of us and six cars in class behind us so you could get a poor dealing quick there is a genuine possibility getting placed in class are you ready for the worst episode of cribs ever this is the smallest cork RV so this is where the guys have been spending their race weekend this is where they've been sleeping here's the first little bunk bed situation we've got Neil underneath Anthony on top there's some slippers there I'm not going to touch them it smells okay in here not horrendous not amazing just okay over here we've got a lovely sofa and table set up and this converts into a double bed Andrew's taking this one but up here this is where the real action is this is Richard's there's no two ways about it it's a nest I'm seeing at least three different blankets of differing thicknesses and about eight different pillows in here the man definitely knows how to sleep and then looking around I'm counting one two three four GoPros let's just leave that in there director Marcus we knew that the cogs were gonna go racing you're Suddenly at the biggest Grand Prix track in the entirety of the UK it's fairly deep end both production wise and for the cold guys how do you think today's gonna go well I mean it has been a journey as you say and I think it's true of all of us both from the side of the cogs and Richard and on production side we underestimated okay you know I I personally also thought oh it's like going out for a nice Sunday day out isn't it perhaps you you know you'll sort of go a bit faster and you somebody wants to get by you go oh here you go it's really about dicing yeah a bit of dicing and oh yeah well done Roger and all that sort of stuff but you know so I'd got no idea that it was this intense and that they are people are this competitive so as you say we kind of learned along the way all of us um and so I guess it's become more and more scary okay so I think to some degree we were all sort of slightly cacking ourselves today you know what have we taken on and obviously Donington that was meant to be our first race three or four weeks ago yeah big engine problem and again that was a massive reality check again it's like you don't just turn up you're not even guaranteed to start let alone come anywhere so I think all of us are sort of slightly pinching ourselves and saying you know how did we end up here you know this is this for the Cog um is probably well it's the last chance in this series of actually you know getting anywhere in a race so it's a kind of massive day Anthony as well his journey has been amazing from you know not bad in a go-kart yes to actually you know potentially being on the grid um and so yeah this this is proper which what I love about this series is this sort of proper fairy tale elements to it foreign so this is what it all comes down to after all the building and all the prep of the car it comes down to this first race here he gets on here we are race one lap one I can hear them coming they'll be down the Wellington Street in a sec go on that today there is breaking at the end of the Wellington Street get it tucked in there it's right on the back side of my mini that is the first job done and dusted he's got her in the first lap he's in the race this is what British Motorsport is all about sitting in a completely deserted stand on an incredibly freezing cold windy Airfield watching all cars slowly overheat until one really overheats goes off and causes a red flag cheers to that on this occasion my energy drinks seem to give me the power of foresight because just two minutes later thank you good useful by very very bad news Abby swamped into the car from Anthony and she made up a couple of places they'd go up to around 27 28 from 29th after the pit stop but I've just been told the car has now stopped somewhere on track on the transponder on the timing there's a little exclamation mark which means the cars out there somewhere there is a problem all right so they've managed to recover the car and the cogs and engine man Rick are having a proper look at it turns out it did overheat to the point where the car cut out so it's not terminal just got a bit hot and decided it has had enough so it'll just be a case of I guess getting it back to the Cog having a real diagnosis of exactly what caused it to overheat and then go from there annoyingly Abby only got two or three laps in and she wasn't making her way up the field could have been a really good result but sadly it wasn't to be today Richard happy sad how did today go well the day went incredibly well up to a point yes um and it was a moment of crashing disappointment but in that race Anthony went out and was turning in 114's 115s which is exactly what we wanted brought it in brought it in downloaded what he learned about the car Abby went off we did a quick driver change she was turning in 112 which is confident there's a 110 because she was soft pedaling because of the temperature yes and eventually it blew a core plug out the back this temperature went right up so she stopped cut it engine sounds fine but if she can turn in 110s consistently in it that's proper competitive that puts us in the top six overall regardless of class it's a hell of a start so that would be like oh so that's got the potential to be a proper little car okay next season it will be so you're seeing next season I mean you are a classic car restoration company have you now fully got the racing bug yeah really badly I think we all have it's just I like the way you're lashing it together sometimes you fix yourself with gaffer and tie wraps and bits of cardboard and aluminum and making it work making it work and just keep going so what is the future of Smalls called racing full season next year I'd like to do a season next year I'd like to get this right and then we'll see so it may not have been the fairy tale first race for the korgs but I reckon Motorsport has got right underneath their skin and we will see a lot more racing content from the smallest Cog in the future we have been behind the scenes of Richard Hammond's Workshop today and if you would like to watch that new show click the link in the description below where you'll head over to Discovery plus and trust us it's one of the best shows out there right now if you like this video give it a thumbs up I've been Mike and don't forget to subscribe to drivetribe foreign\n"