The Right, it's Thursday morning UK time.

We're just about ready to start the Australian Grand Prix weekend with first practice coming up later on tonight.

And we are joined from Melbourne

by virtual Statman himself, Mr Sean Kelly. Welcome along Sean. Good morning, Sean. Good evening.

Everybody back there in the UK and the rest of the colonies. So it's 27 minutes past 10 hour time. What

time is it where you are? It is coming up to half past nine in the evening here in Melbourne.

So there we go, 11 hours ahead. Yeah. If you want to know, if you want to know the football scores or racing results, I've got more.

Yeah, I've got a bet on at Cheltenham this afternoon. If you can just pass that on to us after the end of the show.

Yeah, I already know what happens.

So, I'm guessing on a serious point, Melbourne is fairly subdued at the moment after the sad news last night of Charlie Whiting's passing.

Yes, we, the news was not distributed here until lunchtime, probably 1230, 12.45 this afternoon

was when the story broke that Charlie Whiting had passed away and it was, yeah, it's been, it's been, it's massively changed the move.

It was, you know, everybody was upbeat, you know, if anybody's been to the Australian

Grand Prix, you will know it's always the, it's the most optimistic race of the season,

because, you know, everybody's equal, no one's, you don't know who's going to be

where on the grid, there's all that kind of stuff, the don't know who's going to be aware on the grid,

there's all that kind of stuff, the excitement of a new season.

And suddenly that story dropped and the mood just changed in an instant.

You know, it was suddenly, it was, wow, I mean, that's inconceivable.

You know, Charlie was at the track yesterday.

He did, you know, he walked the first couple of corners of Sebastian Vettel's track walk with him. And I'm sure, you know, if you look around on the internet on the various news stories about this, you'll see the photographs of him with Vettel. But they were taken yesterday. It's just, just same old, same old. same old. It's just as you know of a Formula One Grand Prix, Charlie Whiting will go out, check the track, check everything.

And he did all that as normal.

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