The tributes to Stirling Moss, who passed away on Easter Sunday this year, were many and varied, as might have been expected for arguably the world’s most famous racing driver.
The outlines of Moss’s phenomenally successful career are certainly familiar to most: Formula One victories for HWM, Mercedes, Maserati, Cooper, Lotus and a skill in sports cars that most observers rated superior even to that of the master, Fangio. Moss’s legendary win in the 1955 Mille Miglia, ten hours covering ordinary Italian roads at an average speed of 100mph without even the slightest lapse in concentration, is just utterly unmatched.
But eclectic though Moss’s career was, and most commentators pointed out that Ferrari was the only marque Moss never raced for in Formula One, they almost all overlooked the fact…
