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Stirling Moss
Sir Stirling Craufurd Moss was a British racing driver and broadcaster, who competed in Formula One from 1951 to 1961. Widely regarded as one of the greatest drivers to never win the Formula One World Drivers' Championship, Moss won a record 212 official races across several motorsport disciplines, including 16 Formula One Grands Prix. In endurance racing, Moss won the 12 Hours of Sebring in 1954,…
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sports · British racing driver (1929–2020) · Formula One driver · also Stirling Moss, Stirling Craufurd Moss, Sir Stirling Craufurd Moss, Sir Stirling Moss, Moss
Born 17 September 1929 · Died 12 April 2020 · Q172728
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2026· 2 entries
SpeedMe.ru: Mercedes-Benz 300 SLS frente al SLR Stirling Moss: cómo Mercedes eliminó todo lo superfluo por velocidad
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2023· 3 entries
https//carbuzz: Exquisite Mercedes-Benz SLR Stirling Moss Is A Must-Have For Serious Collectors
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Forbes: Ultra-Rare 2010 Mercedes-Benz SLR Stirling Moss Up For Auction
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Motor Authority: Rare Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren Stirling Moss heads to auction
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2020· 2 entries
Died 2020-04-12.
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Moss died of cardio-respiratory failure at his home in Mayfair, London, on 12 April 2020, aged 90, after a long illness.
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2018· 1 entry
As a result of this illness and a subsequent lengthy recovery period, Moss announced his retirement from public life in January 2018.
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2016· 4 entries
autoevolution: £1 Million Will Buy You Much More Than the Lister Jaguar Stirling Moss
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Philip Porter published the first volume of Stirling Moss – The Definitive Biography covering the period from birth up to the end of 1955, one of Moss's greatest years
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In an academic paper that reported a mathematical modelling study that assessed the relative influence of driver and machine, Moss was ranked the 29th best Formula One driver of all time
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“lost not only a true icon and a legend, but a gentleman”
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2015· 1 entry
When he was aged 85, Moss published a second autobiography, entitled My Racing Life, written with motor sports writer Simon Taylor
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2013· 4 entries
Road & Track: Stirling Moss lends some provenance to The Little Red Racing Car
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Moss said that if a biopic were made about his life, he would want to be portrayed by "someone masculine – not a poofter or anything like that"
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“someone masculine – not a poofter or anything like that”
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In 2013, Moss said that if a biopic were made about his life, he would want to be portrayed by "someone masculine – not a poofter or anything like that".
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2012· 1 entry
Autoblog: 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO made for Stirling Moss becomes world's most expensive car
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2010· 1 entry
On 7 March 2010, Moss broke both ankles and four bones in a foot, and also chipped four vertebrae and suffered skin lesions, when he plunged down a lift shaft at his home.
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2009· 2 entries
autoevolution: Sir Stirling Moss To Be Celebrated at the 2009 Revival
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AutoGuide: SLR Stirling Moss in the Flesh
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2008· 1 entry
AutoGuide: SLR Stirling Moss
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2006· 1 entry
Moss was awarded the FIA gold medal in recognition of his outstanding contribution to motorsport
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2004· 2 entries
Moss was a supporter of the UK Independence Party
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As part of its promotion for the new SLR, Mercedes-Benz reunited Moss with the 300 SLR "No
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1990· 1 entry
Moss was inducted into the International Motorsports Hall of Fame
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1980· 1 entry
Moss made a comeback to regular competition, in the British Saloon Car Championship with the works-backed GTi Engineering Audi team
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1963· 1 entry
Motorsport author and commentator Ken Purdy published a biographical book entitled All But My Life about Moss (first published by William Kimber & Co, London), based on material gathered through interviews with Moss
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1962· 3 entries
After an accident at the non-championship Glover Trophy left him in a coma for a month and temporarily paralysed
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Moss crashed his Lotus in the Glover Trophy
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Moss acted as a colour commentator for ABC's Wide World of Sports for Formula One and NASCAR races
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1961· 1 entry
Awarded BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award (1961).
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1960· 1 entry
“cold, precise, clinical judgement... a man who could live so close to the edge of death and danger, and trust entirely to his own judgement.”
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1958· 1 entry
Moss's forward-thinking attitude made waves in the racing world
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1957· 3 entries
Won Segrave Trophy (1957).
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Won on the longest circuit ever to hold a Formula One Grand Prix, the 25 km (16 mi) Pescara Circuit, where, yet again, he demonstrated his mastery in long-distance racing
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Moss published an autobiography called In the Track Of Speed, first published by Muller, London
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1956· 1 entry
And 1957 with Maserati and Vanwall, winning multiple Grands Prix across both seasons
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1955· 2 entries
Taking his maiden win at the British Grand Prix as he finished runner-up in the championship to career rival Juan Manuel Fangio
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Moss won Italy's one-thousand-mile Mille Miglia road race, an achievement that Doug Nye described as the "most iconic single day's drive in motor racing history"
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1954· 4 entries
As well as the Mille Miglia in 1955 with Mercedes
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Became the first non-American to win the 12 Hours of Sebring, sharing the Cunningham team's 1
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Silverstone in 1958 and at Sebring in 1959, and to celebrate these races, 10 special-edition lightweight Lister Knobbly cars are being built
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Where he achieved his maiden podium at the Belgian Grand Prix
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1953· 1 entry
Mercedes-Benz racing boss Alfred Neubauer had spoken to Moss's manager, Ken Gregory, about the possibility of Moss's joining Mercedes
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1951· 1 entry
(with a Jaguar C-Type), 1955 (with a Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR), 1958 and 1959 (with an Aston Martin DBR1), and 1960 and 1961 (with a Ferrari 250 GT)
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1929· 1 entry
Born 1929-09-17.
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