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Monday July 11th, 2005 at 20:49pm

I went to London, ate a bit, drank lots (not like me). Battersea heliport didn’t seem that easy to find, despite our driver saying they’d done a ‘dry run’ to see how long it took (only about 10 mins) but I think he got a bit flustered when I realised my coleague didn’t have any photo-id and I had to ask him to go back to the hotel so we could get it. Our party of 10 was split into 6 and 4, and I went in the front of the smaller chopper. I loved every moment of our 40 minute flight, including the circling over Kew awaiting ATC instructions. Once landed at Silverstone we jumped into cars driven by volunteers and whisked off to our hospitality suite. The Red Arrows did a spectacular display, we just had time for lunch and a couple of drinks and then it was time for the race. I’m not sure I’ve ever felt anything like it, being a huge F1 fan for so many years must play a part in the way I felt as the cars thundered past on the first lap - then crawled past on the second lap behind the safety car as Sato’s stricken BAR was ‘rescued’. It was very difficult to know exactly what was going on, though radio Silverstone helped a bit. Having said that I found the atmosphere superb and the whole thing very exciting. We ate more, drank lots more (I think I prob drank more this weekend then I have for the past two months). Then it was back to the helipad and we were returned to Battersea. All in all a wonderful weekend, our hosts could not have paid us any more attention or looked after us any better. I’ve asked them if we can do Monaco next season ; )

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