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The reflections and regrets of a WRC nearly-man

Ex-WRC driver Matthew Wilson now runs M-Sport's Bentley GT3 programme. Is there anything he would advise his younger self? David Evans asks the questions on the road to Spa

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Matthew Wilson is nervous, and not for the first time. But on this occasion it's not a World Rally Championship result on the line, or even a victory for his M-Sport Bentley race team. This time it's 21 inches of lovely forged alloy that has him on edge.

The Cumbrian is trying to thread a 2188mm-wide gap with 2187mm of shiny new Bentley Continental GT. We're in Rubino Red with 12 cylinders rumbling away in front of us and there's nowhere to hide from a Eurotunnel-full of soon-to-be-holidaying Brits watching and waving. Wilson is inch-perfect and, as the door closes behind us, a relieved man.

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