Column To news overview © XPB Sunday Up early to head for Silverstone for the 25th anniversary – to the week – of my first media accreditation, granted in 1997 for the British, German and Austrian Grands Prix. I'd flown across from my native South Africa on a wing and a prayer, desperately hoping to break into the sport by hook or crook at age 43. I have three stand-out recollections of that weekend: Saying to myself as I swiped my pass at the turnstile that if I failed to gain accreditation again, I'd at least held it once; Jacques Villeneuve won for Williams (later today he obliges with a celebratory selfie); and the horrific post-race traffic jams that were such that it took four...
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