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Stirling - Thoughts from 1955

  Fangio, Neubauer, and the glamour of motor racing Stirling on: Fangio ‘One of the first to congratulate me after becoming the first Brit to ever win the British GP was Fangio. ‘I had respect and...

Harvey Sykes and Stirling’s 1958/’59 Cooper-Climax

All photos copyright Harvey Sykes After coming across the story of Stirling’s 1959 Dutch Grand Prix comeback drive in the second part of our Stirling Moss – Mission Impossible series, Harvey Sykes...

Lance Macklin and the HWM - Part 3

Read Part 1  |  Read Part 2 With the help of the smaller truck they got themselves to the garage where only a few weeks previously they had kept the racing cars. There, after much welding and bendi...

Lance Macklin and the HWM - Part 2

Read Lance Macklin and the HWM - Part 1  While I am on the subject, it might be interesting for readers to know what my views eventually were on Stirling Moss as a result of driving for two whole s...

Stirling's 1960 Nürburgring 1000Kms in Maserati Tipo 61 (Birdcage) with Dan Gurney

For the 1960 race, Stirling was paired with the American, Dan Gurney, and they were to drive a Birdcage Maserati, entered by ‘Lucky' Casner's Camoradi team. Stirling and Dan had already suffered fr...

1957 Buenos Aires 1000Kms in Maserati 300S

At the time, Stirling considered this his greatest drive. The Buenos Aires 1,000 Kilometres was a sports car race in which he was to share with Fangio the wheel of the new 4.5-litre V8 Maserati, th...