Moss will always be famous for sportingly losing the 1958 World Championship by defending a rival but my memory of him is at the launch of the opposite of a Formula One car - we'd been invited to the unveiling of Sinclair's secret C5 at a snowy Alexandra Palace in Jan 1985... https://twitter.com/BBCSimonMcCoy/status/1249275929983098883
...the hype suggested it was going to be something like a Tesla the reality was a 1 person bobsleigh powered by a washing machine motor. They worked alright driving them on wooden floors in Ally Pally but then we wedged open the fire doors with PR men & women shrieking "No!"...
...realising the unfolding calamity. We headed down the icy slopes but when you braked - there was only a brake on one side so you slewed & then rolled over. We quickly realised that the battery ran out if you tried to go back up hill leaving just the pedals. Moss set off...