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Our October issue will be one to remember, a special edition that will feature Sir Stirling Moss as our guest editor to celebrate his forthcoming 80th birthday.
A collection of features to mark the occasion will make this issue unmissable, as Britain’s greatest racing driver takes his first desk job!
The highlights will include Stirling looking back at a selection of the rivals he raced against and the cars he drove during his 14-year career from 1948 to 1962, when a crash at Goodwood brought a premature end to his great career.
Since then, the Moss name has continued to resonate through the generations. Simon Taylor interviews him to discover how he has lived for 47 years as a retired racing driver.
We also feature an extract from Stirling’s new book, published by Haynes, in which he recounts every one of his 585 races. Our extract will focus on a month from his career to highlight the breadth and depth of races he could squeeze in during a four-week period.
Deputy editor Gordon Cruickshank interviews Ken Gregory, considered by many as the first professional driver manager – fittingly for the man considered to be the first professional racer in the modern sense.
We bring Stirling’s story right up to date with his new role as a star of childrens’ TV on Roary the Racing Car, while Nigel Roebuck reflects on Moss’s close friendship with Motor Sport’s famed Continental Correspondent Denis Jenkinson.
Dear Sirs
Five years ago, at Vila Real, in Portugal, I had the opportunity to talk with Sir Stirling Moss, offer him a couple of photos of his win in 1958 in Porto (my home town) and have him sign a copy of period “Autosport” reporting his win.
He was even kind enough to let me take him a couple of photos with my (then) 10 months old daughter Ana.
It was the 16th October 2004, and it was my 49th birthday :)
Now, my little girl is 5 and a half years old, but can still remember very well about Sir “Tiling” Moss (not least because of all the books I have at home :)) and so, she was very very happy, even if so shy, to be able to meet him and Lady Susie again, last 12th of July, here in Porto, at the paddock in Boavista, less then a mile from our home.
And again both were so charmingly kind to me and my daughter that undoubtedly she will keep this nice memory of having personally met one of the GREATEST while she grows up.
So, Thank you very very much again, Dear Sir Stirling Moss and Lady Susie.
All the best from Porto
A. Neri Moreira
Thinking of dangerous times, Stirling Moss, “the greatest driver never to win a world championship” ( which could mean any of several excellent salon or sportscar racers) is all but ignored by populist guides to F1. Yet he won more Grands Prix than Jack Brabham, Graham Hill, Emerson Fittipaldi, James Hunt, Mario Andretti, Denny Hulme, John Surtees, Jochen Rindt and Mike Hawthorn – all World Champions; I may have missed some out. He scored the first win for a ‘modern’ mid-engined F1 car. At 16 wins out of 66 starts, his strike rate was better than Lewis Hamilton’s. And he won a lot of other races too. But I digress.
In Dec.1999 and Jan.2000 I had an article published in two parts in “Model Auto Review’ entitled “Stirling Moss – The greatest racing driver of the millennium” which was illustrated by 1/43 scale models in my collection of the cars driven by him throughout his illustrious career. I sent a copy of my article to Sir Stirling and he sent me a much-prized acknowledgement in his writing, as well as an autographed postcard of his winning the 1955 British Grand Prix. Still the greatest!!