Best Stirling Moss moments according to F1

Tuesday, 14 April 2020

Over the Easter weekend, the motor racing world took a big hit. Sir Stirling Moss, regarded as the greatest Formula One driver never to win the world championship passed away, aged 90.

Moss won 16 of the 66 races he entered, retired prematurely after a nasty accident at Goodwood on Easter Monday 58 years ago which left him in a coma for a month. He finished second in the drivers' championship four times (1955-58) and third on three occasions.

'I hope I'll continue to be described as the greatest driver who never won the world championship, but it doesn't really matter,' Moss once said. 'The most important thing for me was gaining the respect of the other drivers and I think I achieved that.'

Stirling Moss was mainly known for driving British machinery, although had stints with Maserati.

Moss was known for racing with British machinery, regardless of whether or not it was the best on the grid. As he once put it: 'Better to lose honourably in a British car than to win in a foreign one.'

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Formula 1's official Youtube channel put together a series of ten clips showing Moss at his best. Included are clashes with his longtime rival, team-mate and idol, Juan Manuel Fangio, the first win in Britain by a British man driving British machinery and the first win in a rear-engined racer.

In 1961, Moss even withstood the might of Ferrari at the Nurburgring in 1961, in a Lotus as out of date as it was under-powered.

The great racer also showed his might outside of F1. In 1955, he won the Mille Miglia, Italy's fabled 1000-mile open-road race, against opponents with infinitely more knowledge of the route, and with journalist Denis Jenkinson barking directions from a rolled-up scroll. According to F1, this was the only time in Moss' career where he was actually frightened.

Stirling Moss self proclaimed that he was a racer, not a driver, with careful distinction. As such, he will be remembered as one of the greatest racers who ever lived.