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Stirling Moss RIP

Bedsaddick
Bedsaddick Posts: 24,730
in Other Football and Sports


Has died aged 90   RIP
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  • Pedro45
    Pedro45 Posts: 5,820
    Probably the greatest driver never to win the world championship. RIP fella.
  • T_C_E
    T_C_E Posts: 16,418
    RIP
  • DamoNorthStand
    DamoNorthStand Posts: 10,934
    Gutted by this - a true great of the sport and despite no world title generally thought of by his peers as one of the best ever 
  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 94,291
    Oh thats very sad... Bit like Muhammed Ali with Boxing etc. his was the Sports name you'd associate with Formula One

    Strange fact but his name was used for one of the Forms in my School Year

    Our year had Sporting Legends, Beaumont and Peters (that was mine after Mary Peters) were two of the others, cant remember anymore

    RIP Sterling
  • soapy_jones
    soapy_jones Posts: 21,350
    RIP.  
  • i_b_b_o_r_g
    i_b_b_o_r_g Posts: 18,948
    edited April 2020
    Use to live up near Shepherd Market, just behind the Park Lane Hilton.

    RIP
  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 33,995
    RIP
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,761
    RIP
  • Chippycafc
    Chippycafc Posts: 14,141
    RIP someone who can genuinely be called a legend.
  • bobmunro
    bobmunro Posts: 20,842
    People above a certain age (me included) still say when an idiot flashes past you at 120mph - "who does he think he is, Stirling Moss?"
    Agree with @Pedro45 - probably the best never to have won a World Championship. He did win the Mille Miglia though amongst other achievements and was probably a better long distance driver than at Grand Prix distance.

    RIP Stirling.

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  • hoof_it_up_to_benty
    hoof_it_up_to_benty Posts: 22,438
    Great driver. RIP
  • 3blokes
    3blokes Posts: 4,610
    “Oh here we go, got another Stirling Moss coming up behind us....”
    A name synonymous with speed.
    RIP Stirling.
  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 21,593
    Gutted. He retired from public life a couple of years ago due to his health so not a huge shock.

    I was lucky enough to meet him a few times, he was such a nice guy. My old man was a massive fan and the picture he got him to sign had pride of place in his study. It was funny seeing him like a star struck kid when we met him.
  • Chizz
    Chizz Posts: 28,331
    I imagine the last thing Sir Stirling Moss would have wanted would be to rest in peace. So I'm going to wish that he rests in noise, petrol fumes and adrenalin. 

    He was the best of us. 
  • SheffieldRed
    SheffieldRed Posts: 3,772

    RIP

  • seth plum
    seth plum Posts: 53,448
    RIP.
    He once introduced Jethroe Tull at the Rainbow  Finsbury Park at a concert I attended

  • Johnnysummers5
    Johnnysummers5 Posts: 8,469
    RIP Sterling
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,215
    RIP

    Not my sport but everyone knew who he was.

    Always came over as a genuine guy in interviews.
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,215
    RIP

    Not my sport but everyone knew who he was.

    Always came over as a genuine guy in interviews.
  • Starinnaddick
    Starinnaddick Posts: 4,342
    Talked to him a few times at Brands in my youth. Unfortunately he did'nt have the car to win a world title but a great driver.
    RIP Sterling
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  • Brendan_O_Connell
    Brendan_O_Connell Posts: 8,938
    RIP
  • happyvalley
    happyvalley Posts: 8,996
    RIP, a true great.
  • Algarveaddick
    Algarveaddick Posts: 21,146
    RIP to a legend. 
  • soapboxsam
    soapboxsam Posts: 23,229
    Sterling Moss would've been World Champ in later years but the points and places in his era stopped him having that accolade.
    Runner up 4 times, he retired at 32 after a crash from F1 but carried on driving in the historic meetings until he was 81.

    A  bon vivant who had no equals in life style in  British drivers other than James Hunt in later years. Graham Hill went close !

    Moss is survived by his third wife Susie and two children. “He died as he lived, looking wonderful,” said Lady Moss.

    He had a fantastic life and accepted that fate and Fangio stopped him being a world champ.

    RIP Sterling Moss.
  • MuttleyCAFC
    MuttleyCAFC Posts: 47,728
    RIP. He was a great racer. An old school one.
  • Raith_C_Chattonell
    Raith_C_Chattonell Posts: 5,674
    bobmunro said:
    People above a certain age (me included) still say when an idiot flashes past you at 120mph - "who does he think he is, Stirling Moss?"
    Agree with @Pedro45 - probably the best never to have won a World Championship. He did win the Mille Miglia though amongst other achievements and was probably a better long distance driver than at Grand Prix distance.

    RIP Stirling.

    My late father in law took a tumble on a bus as the driver accelerated away.  He apparently shouted out, 'Who do you think you are, Stirling bloody Mansell?'

    RIP Stirling. 
  • LenGlover
    LenGlover Posts: 31,651
    Yes the name those of us 'of a certain age' think of first when Motor Racing is mentioned.

    RIP Stirling
  • mid_life_crisis
    mid_life_crisis Posts: 3,263
    One of the greats.
    RIP
  • Phil
    Phil Posts: 612
    RIP.
  • Bangkokaddick
    Bangkokaddick Posts: 4,295
    RIP to one of the great British sportsmen.

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