What would you ask Sir Stirling Moss?

[simonrockman]

I'm running a conference soon and Sir Stirling Moss is the keynote.

He'll be taking questions from the moderator and from the audience and I thought it would be good to have some insightful questions from PH. It's a mobile phone conference and I don't expect the audience to be particularly au-fait with Motorsport, let alone have heard of Jenks or 722.

I'll post replies to any of the questions he answers.

Mail me if you want more details, on the conference I won't plug it here.

The replies have got to be better than those I got from my friends. One of whom suggested that he went on that BBC genealogy programme just so they could call it "Who Do You Think You Are? Stirling Moss"

Simon

[Arese]

"Should the Focus RS have been 4WD?"

[Soovy]

You lucky sod.


I met him a few weeks ago - lovely bloke. Got to speak o him for ten minutes. Would be on my list of people I'd most like to have a good long dinner with.

[simonrockman]

Arese said:

"Should the Focus RS have been 4WD?"

Even though it's a phone conference, one of the other talks is on the design process for the Focus.

[Arese]

simonrockman said:

Arese said:

"Should the Focus RS have been 4WD?"

Even though it's a phone conference, one of the other talks is on the design process for the Focus.

I knew that.

[L100NYY]

What has been his favourite motoring moment thus far? Be it a race/road-drive/something else.

Last tank of fuel, what car would he choose and where would he drive it?

Favourite road car and why? (BMW 507 iirc)

Favourite race car and why?

Favourite race circuit and why?

[chevronb37]

"Would you and Fangio have won Le Mans in 1955 without the Levegh crash?"
"Do you think you could've beaten Fangio in 1956 if M-B hadn't pulled out of Grand Prix racing?"
"Do you regret your BTCC comeback with Audi?"
"Would you have gone head-to-head with Clark at Lotus, had the opportunity arisen?"

[Munter]

Soovy said:

You lucky sod.


I met him a few weeks ago - lovely bloke. Got to speak o him for ten minutes. Would be on my list of people I'd most like to have a good long dinner with.

Well there's a question. Who would Stirling invite to a long dinner?

[deadslow]

Will you be using the stairs?

[Noger]

"So, an OBE, 16 F1 wins, 212 career race wins ... tell me about that lift shaft".

[DickyC]

deadslow said:

Will you be using the stairs?

[belleair302]

Is it true that he was expelled in the sixth form from the ISC (Imperial Services College, now Haileybury public school) for driving a beaks (teachers) car across the academic quadrangle??

[DickyC]

"At Le Mans in '59, did Aston Martin instruct you and Jack Fairman to go as fast as you could for as long as you could in an attempt to destroy the Ferraris to leave the way clear for the Shelby/Salvadori and Trintignant/Frere Astons?"

[SystemParanoia]

"keys please?"

[phil1979]

I'd like to know why he was so rude to James Corden on stage recently.

[homerjay]

phil1979 said:

I'd like to know why he was so rude to James Corden on stage recently.

because james corden is unfunny, annoying, talentless tt?

Edited by homerjay on Monday 28th June 15:59

[SystemParanoia]

Patric stweard and mr moss have ripped into him... odd are against the idiot 2 - 1 on him being a fking tt

[The Wookie]

phil1979 said:

I'd like to know why he was so rude to James Corden on stage recently.

What happened there?

[RobM77]

Who's James Corden and what happened? I'm a big fan of Patrick Stewart and Stirling Moss, so I'm intrigued

For questions, how about:

"Do you think Formula One could be made more interesting for the fans to watch, and if so how would you change it?"

"What racing car would you like to compete in that you never got the chance to, of any era right up to today?"

"If you could race in any season of motorsport from history, which championship would it be, what year and what car would you choose to drive?"

[DickyC]

RobM77 said:

Who's James Corden and what happened? I'm a big fan of Patrick Stewart and Stirling Moss, so I'm intrigued

Corden asked Mossy if he enjoyed flying the Enterprise as much as racing.