Heads up BBC2 8pm 27th Dec 2012 Racing Legends: Stirling...
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TAKE three celebrity motor racing enthusiasts and three iconic drivers, and what do you get? A series called Racing Legends.
Each edition sees the famous face either meeting the sporting hero themselves or a member of their family, and then retraces some of the biggest triumphs of their careers while learning about the cars they drove and the lengths they went to in order to win.
First up is acclaimed Shakespearean actor and former captain of the USS Enterprise Patrick Stewart, who is beside himself with glee when he gets to rub shoulders with Stirling Moss.
The pair travel to Florence in a classic Mercedes to retrace the route taken by the Mille Miglia, Italy’s most famous road race. Moss won the race in 1955 in a record time and it is now regarded as one of his best-ever drives.
Moss also discusses how a nearfatal crash may have been the best thing that ever happened to him. But the real joy for Stewart comes when he drives a 1957 Formula 1 car at the scene of Moss’s historic British Grand Prix victory – it clearly beats commanding a starship.
TAKE three celebrity motor racing enthusiasts and three iconic drivers, and what do you get? A series called Racing Legends.
Each edition sees the famous face either meeting the sporting hero themselves or a member of their family, and then retraces some of the biggest triumphs of their careers while learning about the cars they drove and the lengths they went to in order to win.
First up is acclaimed Shakespearean actor and former captain of the USS Enterprise Patrick Stewart, who is beside himself with glee when he gets to rub shoulders with Stirling Moss.
The pair travel to Florence in a classic Mercedes to retrace the route taken by the Mille Miglia, Italy’s most famous road race. Moss won the race in 1955 in a record time and it is now regarded as one of his best-ever drives.
Moss also discusses how a nearfatal crash may have been the best thing that ever happened to him. But the real joy for Stewart comes when he drives a 1957 Formula 1 car at the scene of Moss’s historic British Grand Prix victory – it clearly beats commanding a starship.
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