When household names speed off into history books

The ink was barely dry on my newly-issued driving licence when I was first pulled over by the blue flashing lights of a police car.

- with Mike Hill

The officer leaned into the window and asked the standard question of traffic police of the era, “and who do we think we are, sir, Stirling Moss?”.

Despite the race ace hanging up his helmet a decade before my birth, he remained the go to reference point for the eighties cop addressing speeding motorists before deciding whether to issue a ticket or not.

It's been a while since my driving skills have required a roadside chat with the boys in blue, so it may be that they have now moved on to Nigel Mansell or Damon Hill.