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Monday 13 April 2020

RIP Stirling Moss (1929-2020)

Stirling Moss at his Imperial Good Companion portable typewriter in the Bahamas, while recovering from injuries suffered in a crash at the Goodwood racing circuit in England in 1962.
Sir Stirling Craufurd Moss was a British Formula One racing driver and an inductee into the International Motorsports Hall of Fame. He won 212 of the 529 races he entered across several classes of motor racing and has been described as one of the greatest drivers never to win the Formula One World Championship. In a seven-year period between 1955 and 1961, Moss was world championship runner-up four times and third another three times. He won 1Formula One Grands Prix and competed in as many as 62 races in a single year and drove 84 different makes of car over the course of his racing career.  Moss died at his home in Mayfair, London, yesterday, at the age of 90, after a long illness.

1 comment:

Johnpyyc said...

Well time rolls on, I am sorry to see the passing of Sterling Moss, he was one of my heros as a kid. Tells you how old I am. I am sorry to say I don't have a Good Companion in my collection which would have actted as a touchstone for the memory.

Thanks, Robert, be well and keep up your wonderful work.

John