With a BBC report on the latest Top Gear controversy due next week, presenter Jeremy Clarkson has said he is expecting to be sacked from the hit show.
At a charity auction in London on Thursday night, Clarkson launched into an expletive-laden rant against the BBC, which was captured on video.
"It was a great show and they ****** it up," he said.
He was auctioning a lap around the Top Gear track for £100,000 and told the audience: "I didn't foresee my sacking but I would like to do one last lap. So I'll go down to Surrey and I’ll do one last lap of that track before the ******* ******** sack me."
He added: "I'll be a bit tearful when I do it, but **** it, let's do it.
"I'll drive somebody around in whatever I can get hold of. I'm sacked so it’s probably an Austin Maestro. So who knows? But anyway, it will be my last ever lap of the Top Gear track."