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Sir Stirling Moss Service at Westminster

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Story and photos by Jonathan Sharp

A service of Thanksgiving in Westminster Abbey is a very rare and special occasion, and not something you would expect to be conducted for a racing driver. Such is the respect held for Sir Stirling Moss, who was recently honored with a service at the Abbey, delayed after his death in 2020 by the pandemic. I found out about this unique happening from a friend, who in an email wrote, ‘Quick, there is going to be a service of Thanksgiving to Sir Stirling Moss at 11am on the 8th May, and it is going to be in Westminster Abbey! Go onto the web site now and see if you can book tickets.”

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Speedweeks 1959 Part 5

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It took a while for the organizers to realize that Carroll Shelby was leading the race in his Maserati Tipo 61.

By Willem Oosthoek
Photos by Bob Bellows and Dave Nicholas (Willem Oosthoek Collection)

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So how did the Nassau Trophy exactly unfold in 1959? With such a diverse field and some drivers making faster getaways than others, it always takes a few laps before everything is sorted out, However, reading what the motorsport journalists in period, and some of the subsequent book authors, tell us about this feature race, a rather vague picture emerges.

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The Lighter Side of Goodwood

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VeloceToday Office Manager says, “Ah, now don’t that remind me of old times!”

Photos and introduction by Jonathan Sharp

In addition to famous drivers, fantastic races, and an epic entry list, what else did the return of the Goodwood Revival meeting offer?

If you arrived early enough (a sensible idea) you could enjoy the daily air display; three Spitfires flown in a most graceful and balletic manner over the airfield before watching the track parade of Hot Rods and Gassers.

Later you could enjoy the track parade to honor the late Sir Stirling Moss. If BRMs are your thing, on each day you could enjoy the BRM parade to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the marque’s first appearance in a Grand Prix.

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Sir Stirling Moss, A Man of Letters

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The year was 1955 and my father and I had a brilliant idea of how to settle an argument. Being all of eight, I insisted that a Grand Prix car – for instance like the Mercedes W196 Stirling Moss was driving – could get around a 90-degree corner much faster than my wise old father could imagine.

He suggested that we ask the expert, Mr. Moss himself. I don’t recall how he came up with Moss’s address, but we mailed a letter which eventually found its way to the apartment that belonged to Stirling Moss, LTD.in London England. We put the question in general terms, suggesting an average streetcorner at the end of a block without stating the width of the road.

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Sir Stirling Moss, First and Last

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Exuberance personified, Moss three wheels the Vanwall at Melling Crossing, Aintree, 1957 (Gauld Photo)

Story and photos by Graham Gauld

1952. It is remarkably 68 years since I first wrote about and photographed Stirling Moss when I was a trainee journalist with an Edinburgh newspaper. In a remarkable bit of chutzpah, I had talked the Sports Editor into letting me take over the motoring and motor racing correspondents role at the age of 17!

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Sir Stirling Moss, by the Numbers

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1957, Moss at the Swedish Grand Prix. Photo by Jim Sitz.

Story by Clyde Berryman

The following is a QPRS review of Sir Stirling Moss’ F1 Grand Prix career. Allow me to explain.

As a boardgame enthusiast in my teen years, I conceived the first of several math formula systems to try and rate the performances of real racing drivers and their cars in order to re-create actual historical Grand Prix seasons using the game mechanics of a popular Avalon Hill game called ‘Speed Circuit’ By the mid-1990’s this formula had evolved into the final version which I called the Quality Point Rating System (QPRS) because I sought to distinguish the ‘quality’ of driver performances since they all drove different cars of varying levels of competitiveness. So how does Stirling Moss rate via our QPRS system?

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Sir Stirling Moss, Mr Goodwood

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Susie and Stirling Moss, Goodwood 2010.

Story and photos by Jonathan Sharp

“Who do you think you are, Stirling Moss?” was an oft-used phrase by British Bobbies when pulling over speeding motorists in the mid-twentieth century. So well-known in fact, that Renault used the line during the 1970s for a Renault 20 television advertisement. If I recall correctly, the scene starts with the Renault stopped on a country road with a Bobby on a bicycle next to the car. The driver’s front window then comes down electrically, and the Bobby looks at the driver in the car whilst saying the immortal line. As the camera pulls away, we see Stirling Moss at the wheel. [Read more…] about Sir Stirling Moss, Mr Goodwood

Goodwood Festival of Speed Part Two

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Drivers at Goodwood II, June 24-26 by Jonathan Sharp

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Susie Wolff was the development driver and then test driver for Williams F1 between 2013 and 2015. From 2006 to 2012 she drove a Mercedes Benz in the German DTM series. Her husband is Toto Wolff, executive director of the Mercedes AMG Petronas Formula One Team.

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Mr Goodwood Sir Stirling Moss reflected in the mirror of a Mercedes Benz 300 SLS.

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