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One of the greatest race drivers is gone at 90! RIP Mr. Moss :angel:
Actually, Sir Sterling Moss! Sorry about that.
 
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Followed his racing career most of my life. Will be missed. :frown-new:
 

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Sad news.
 

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Sorry to hear that.
 

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Very sorry to hear that, somewhere back in the not too distant past a local club about a day's drive away (I think it was in Minnesota, but could have been Wisconsin) had a dinner with him as guest speaker, they had extra tickets and I got word. It was dead of winter, not the greatest time for quick turn around road travel in the North, I don't usually regret past decisions, but I really wish I had gone. RIP Sir Stirling.
 
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It was stated that he was the greatest race driver that never won a world championship! Being the best, in racing, only gives one an edge, but no guarantees in any particular race. He was always a winner in my book! :encouragement:
 

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I just saw this post on the Racing History group online from E. Dean Butler,

"I will always remember most the time I saw Stirling, in his eighties, signing autographs for over two hours sitting in the hot sun at the Australian F1 GP, with wife Susie shading him with an umbrella. The temperature was well over 100 degrees F. I later commented to Stirling how wonderful that he was signing autographs for so long in that heat.

Stirling’s response was “Dean, the one thing I can be in life is Stirling Moss.”"

And a friend in my slotcar circles had an up close and personal with Stirling Moss as a teenager, and his website has a number of wonderful photos of then Mr. Moss, always the dignified gentleman:
https://www.henryharnish.com/high/index.htm

Truly a legend.
 

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One of the motor racing greats. The end of an era when drivers were divided into two types - those who got killed before they got good and those who got killed afterwards. One reason I quit motor racing after one summer. Another reason - no money.
 

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He's probably sitting up there with Nuvolari and Fangio having a glass of wine.
 

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When I looked his bio up after the obit, I saw he had won a race in Portugal (?) in 1956 because the guy who won had been disqualified for a driving violation. Moss had witnessed the violation and went to the stewards to successfully persuade them they were wrong.

Bob
 

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Bob, I think what you may be talking about is Moss derailing a protest against Hawthorne for push starting his Ferrari on the track in 1958. Moss came to his countryman's defense, Hawthorne did not lose the 7 points from the race, and that ended up giving Hawthorne the driving championship over Moss at the end of the season. Sir Stirling Moss.
 
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