Stirling Moss - exceptional talent and fighter to the end
Summary
Although he never won a world championship title, a Le Mans or an Indy 500 victory, Sir Stirling Moss is still one of the greatest racing drivers in history. When an accident suddenly ended his career in 1962, the Englishman, who died on Easter Sunday, April 12, 2020 at the age of 90, made his way as a businessman and Mercedes-Benz ambassador. This racing driver portrait tells the story of a very special racing driver.
This article contains the following chapters
- Moss in 1974
- 16 victories, 18 fastest laps
- Accident leads to the end of his career
- With the Isetta on the roof
- The first Lotus GP victory
- Attentive observer
- From racing driver to jack of all trades
- On public transport
- Interest in modern technology
- Petrol in the blood
- Number 2 behind Fangio
- Almost world champion
- In the fragile Lotus
- Sports car option
- Active in historic racing
- Once again in the Grand Prix car
Estimated reading time: 15min
Preview (beginning of the article)
Although he never won a world championship title, a Le Mans or an Indy 500 victory, Sir Stirling Moss (September 17, 1929 - April 12, 2020) is still one of the greatest racing drivers in history. When an accident suddenly ended his career in 1962, the Englishman, who died on Easter Sunday 2020 at the age of 90, made his way as a businessman and Mercedes-Benz ambassador. The façade betrays prosperity filtered through good taste: clean lines, unobtrusive, but somewhere expensive. This neighborhood in London's feudal Mayfair district is a little disreputable, red lanterns with four asterisks. The house next door is for sale. Perhaps the two residents, two high-class, posh spinsters, have sunk into the great pool of London's demimonde, perhaps they have realized the eternal dream of their profession and are now leading a life of bourgeois respectability.
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