Fast Mover the Wild-Boy has Grown Up and by Calming Down Simon Webster has Become a Winger to Fear, Reports Alasdair Reid

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SIMON Webster is doing his best to demolish a hard-won reputation, sitting patiently in the corner of a Murrayfield dressing room as he answers one question after another. So much for the Webbo of popular imagination, the motor-mouthed Billy Whizz who lives every second at 100mph.

There is no fidgeting, no anxious glances at the wristwatch. It is all rather disappointingly relaxed.

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Fast Mover the Wild-Boy has Grown Up and by Calming Down Simon Webster has Become a Winger to Fear, Reports Alasdair Reid

Brainwave. What about that Lotus he destroyed a couple of seasons back? He sighs. "It's kind of stuck with me, that one," he replies, more weary than wild-eyed. "I mean, it was just the one car I wrote off." But then again, when you watch Webster at work, either for Edinburgh or Scotland, you begin to understand how the caricature has developed. Not for him, the ...

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