Bauer – sorry, Sutherland – was participating in the Star In A Reasonably Priced Car challenge. With the actor scowling in the fashion of a man who has saved the world on a multitude of occasions yet knows his work is far from done, his cameo was an enjoyable confluence of the portentous and the mundane. After all, it requires a rare talent to make zooming around a Surrey race track in a Vauxhall Astra appear terrifyingly urgent. But Sutherland's granite grimace never wavered and he soon had you convinced the fate of all mankind depended on him clocking up a faster lap than James Blunt.