A day in the life of Stirling Moss
CLOSE YOUR EYES AND THINK OF Stirling Moss racing on a home circuit, and the chances are you will be imagining him at Aintree, where he won the British Grand Prix in 1955 and 1957, or at Goodwood, where he raced a 500cc machine at the circuit’s inaugural meeting in 1948 and went on to win the Tourist Trophy at the circuit four times, and where a still-unexplained crash on Easter Monday 1962 ended his professional career.
Silverstone is unlikely to be the setting that most readily springs to mind. And yet, over the 15 seasons of his career as
