R.I.P Sir Stirling Moss

[a8hex]

The BBC have announced that Sir Stirling Moss has passed away after his long illness

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/formula1/52261216

A sad loss

[classicaholic]

A very sad loss to racing, he was a legend.

[Mike-tf3n0]

I was at Goodwood the day he had his big accident, then later in life had the good fortune to meet him several times, he was our Guest of Honour at Lynx for one of our customer days in the late 80s. Always charming and truly one of the 'Greats', an irreplaceable character gone forever.

[Ardennes92]

Been ill for awhile but still sad to hear, 10 yrs since he stepped into the lift at home when it wasn’t there and 65yrs since he average 99mph for 10hrs on Mille Miglia, proper legend

[4rephill]

One of life's true Gentlemen, and a genuine motor racing legend!

RIP Sir Stirling Moss!

[Gemaeden]

A jolly decent chap.

Sometime around 1990 I was looking to build a replica of the SMART rally Triumph Spitfire, as driven by his secretary Val Pirie around 1964. There were a few things that I was curious about (all no doubt now on the web), so I simply looked up his name in the London telephone directory and called the number.

Within a couple of rings the great man answered and I spent a very pleasant half hour or so having a chat about the car in question and the SMART Lotus Elan. He never made me feel that there were more pressing things to do and seemed genuinely interested in the project.

RIP

[Bobtherallyfan]

Once queued for an hour to get his autograph only for him to ignore me and start trying to chat up the girl behind me.

[redchina]

Ardennes92 said:

Been ill for awhile but still sad to hear, 10 yrs since he stepped into the lift at home when it wasn’t there and 65yrs since he average 99mph for 10hrs on Mille Miglia, proper legend

That can't be ten years ago, surely?!

[Ardennes92]

Just had a look, 8th March 2010 by the look of it, amazing how time flies

[redchina]

I would have said 3-4 years but anyway, slightly offtopic..

RIP Stirling.