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& #39;d been invited to the unveiling of Sinclair& #39;s secret C5 at a snowy Alexandra Palace in Jan 1985... https://twitter.com/BBCSimonMcCoy/status/1249275929983098883">https://twitter.com/BBCSimonM...

...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...

...down South Terrace assuming Sir Clive& #39;s endurance claims for battery were valid and reappeared half hour later red-faced pedalling the C5 frantically & cursing Sinclair. RIP Sir Stirling Moss but 35 years later electric cars (if not C5s) turned out to be the future after all