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MOSS MR MOTORSPORT

“Ascari and later Moss were the rivals I feared most. Moss was the best of my time”

JUAN MANUEL FANGIO

“Stirling was the superstar. You want to know how you measure up? You share a car with Stirling”

DAN GURNEY

“Moss was the man to beat. He never, ever had an off day. He was a competitor from when the flag dropped to the end”

JACK BRABHAM

“He loved to lead, loved to build a gap to the next man so discouraging he might feel it not worth pursuing”

TONY BROOKS

“A mighty racer and gentleman. He had a press on style on the track and in life. Remarkable man”

MARTIN BRUNDLE

SIR STIRLING MOSS’S MAYFAIR HOUSE IS ALMOST AS LEGENDARY AS THE MAN WHO LIVED IN IT.

Built in the early Sixties on a bombsite scrap of land, it was fitted with Bond-style gadgetry and apparently so well known that it became part of the London taxi fraternity’s famous ‘Knowledge’. But then, that was Sir Stirling: he’d long ago staked out the territory beyond national treasure to become a landmark in his own right.

I visited him there twice, trying and

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