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In 1980 he made a comeback to regular competition, in the [[British Touring Car Championship|British Saloon Car Championship]] with the works-backed GTi Engineering [[Audi]] team.<ref name=GoodMen>{{cite journal|title= You can't keep good men down |date= March 1980 |journal= [[Motor Sport (magazine)|Motor Sport]] |page= 317}}</ref> For the 1980 season Moss was the team's number two driver to team co-owner [[Richard Lloyd (racing driver)|Richard Lloyd]].<ref name=RacingGolfs>{{cite journal|author= C.R. |title= Racing Golfs |date= March 1980 |journal= [[Motor Sport (magazine)|Motor Sport]] |pages= 362–363 and 374}}</ref> For the 1981 season Moss stayed with Audi, as the team moved to [[Tom Walkinshaw Racing]] management, driving alongside [[Martin Brundle]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Stirling Moss hospitalised |url=https://www.pitpass.com/58147/Stirling-Moss-hospitalised |website=Pitpass |accessdate=12 April 2020 |date=14 January 2017}}</ref>
Throughout his retirement he raced in events for historic cars, driving on behalf of and at the invitation of others, as well as campaigning his own [[O.S.C.A.|OSCA]] FS 372 and other vehicles.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Arron |first1=Simon |title=Moss magic merits eponymous race |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/motorsport/5827586/Moss-magic-merits-eponymous-race.html |work=The Daily Telegraph |date=15 July 2009}}</ref> In 2004, as part of its promotion for the new SLR, Mercedes-Benz reunited Moss with the 300 SLR "No. 722" in which he won the Mille Miglia nearly 50 years earlier. One reporter who rode with Moss that day noted that the 75-year-old Moss was "so good . . . that even old and crippled [he was] still better than nearly everyone else".<ref>Neil, Dan, "[https://shortcut.thisamericanlife.org/#/clipping/279/2799?_k=vapy49 Auto Show]", ''This American Life'', aired Dec. 10, 2004; accessed 2020.06.11.</ref> On 9 June 2011 during qualifying for the [[Le Mans Legends]] race, Moss announced on [[Radio Le Mans]] that he had finally retired from racing, saying that he had scared himself that afternoon. He was 81.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.reuters.com/article/2011/06/09/us-motor-racing-moss-idUSTRE7586IC20110609 | work=Reuters | title=Stirling Moss announces retirement at age of 81 | date=9 June 2011}}</ref>
==Post racing career==
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