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When a box-office F1 star wound back the years in tin-tops

Stirling Moss once described his unsuccessful comeback in the British Saloon Car Championship as 'the biggest regret of my life', but he was still capable of producing a standout drive at Brands Hatch in 1981. This is the little-known story of his return

Sometimes I tell people I've raced at Crystal Palace. And sometimes I casually offer up that I've witnessed a majestic wet-weather performance from Stirling Moss at the wheel of a contemporary racing car. Anyone who cares to listen to my boasts usually retorts that I'm far too young for either.

But I have competed at Crystal Palace, in a four-lap race as a matter of fact. Plus an extra nine metres. That made it a nice round mile when you consider that those laps were around the National Sport Centre's 400-metre running track, not the parkland racing circuit that closed in the early 1970s.

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