60 seconds with Sir Stirling Moss

Eurosport - Wed, 30 Sep 11:06:00 2009

Eurosport spent a few hallowed moments with motorsport legend Sir Stirling Moss and found he has something against the people of Tring.

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stu_johnson - benetton b194, 1994 championship.
Mawech, 54 years old. the greatest british f1 driver was without doubt jackie stewart. stirling may have been a good chap, but there is no way he was a better driver tham ms-period. you can't really be classed as a great until you have achieved the ultimate in your chosen sport, also, you need to do it more that once, that is a fact. the term great is fat too overused in sport today, let's get real.
From zoso, on Thu 1 Oct 9:25AM
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Jacky Ickx might well be considered one of the greatest w/out a title as well
Very True
From Mawech, on Wed 30 Sep 8:11AM
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Not just some points, but a lot of points... hahaha.
From ferraribeng, on Wed 30 Sep 2:38AM
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Sir Stirling could spend an hour reading the telephone book to me and I would never lose focus. The man is just a true gentleman and a treasure of our sport. Good call on fetching your wife first, that'll win you some points at home!
From b1gshoe, on Wed 30 Sep 2:19AM
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Sterlling Moss such a gent , took time out to sign my sons overalls at goodwood this year and is the most treasured of the 4 world champs signatures he has on them . Thanks Stirling you made my little boys day.
From steve, on Tue 29 Sep 10:40PM
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hello my f1 champions, its your f1 genius here, marnio from peru.
sir sterling ross was the great gentleman racer from the yesteryear.
he is rightly sickened by the outragous events in the f1 now. the lying and the cheating from mclaren and mr hamilton's son, the last corner mr glock disgrace and the renault / nelson piglett jnr brickwall gate.
in sir sterlings day, if you behave like any of these cheats you would be automatically thrown out your gentlemans club and have your tweed jacket collar felt on your way to the prison. you would never ever again get near another race car.
these f1 drivers today do not know they been the born. with the each generation it get easier and easier.
it not the racing any more it is just big business and cheating. the last true champion in f1 was sir micheal schummacher, the f1 king.
mr sterling boss is the honourable man, not like these aforementioned reprobates all of whom should, for the sake of all that is good in the sport, resign the immediately.
From marnio from peru, on Tue 29 Sep 9:53PM
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I dont think Moss would like to have competed in modern day f1, in his day it was all about driver ettiquette and sportsmanship, which is one of the reasons he lost the '58 championship to Mike Hawthorne, nowadays its all about winner takes all, how many o todays drivers woould stop their car mid-race and help a crashed driver? Answers on a postage stamp...
From Pablo from Bolivia, on Tue 29 Sep 8:54PM
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What everyone seems to forget is that he would take part in 3 races a day,probably drive there and back in the same weekend and all without a personal trainer.
Those guys up until 1975 or so were the b0llocks.
Never to be repeated by these young un's.Thats why Goodwood is such a spectacle.
From justblowinoffsteam., on Tue 29 Sep 8:37PM
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jon_smith_31,Hi i to was there at Goodwood, a very funny accident, remember it well, we was very close, and it seemed ages for they got him out, because they had to get some equipment to free him. It took nearly an hour for him to be cut free, he was alive thou but he was unconscious, they said later he choked on chewing gum.They said something about his Lotus , i think it was blue that year, my god, seems like yesterday.
From touronroute, on Tue 29 Sep 7:11PM
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I would love to see some of the new generation racing in the old boys cars. Mind you I was also watching Zinardi race the other day and wondering how many of the F1 young chaps could race competatively in his car.
From Ellie, on Tue 29 Sep 6:38PM
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zoso, when exactly did schumacher win a title in a " not-so-good car" ???? Please remind me....
From S, on Tue 29 Sep 6:26PM
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formula1police
Jacky Ickx might well be considered one of the greatest w/out a title as well
From ericmueller1971, on Tue 29 Sep 5:54PM
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I wish Stirling Moss were fifty years younger
I bet he does too
;-)
From Mawech, on Tue 29 Sep 5:17PM
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zoso
You are clearly too young to have seen the greats, of which Shumi was only one; but Clark; Hill (Still the only driver to win the WDC + Indy 500 + Le Mans); Fangio; Moss; Senna; Brabham; Surtees (Thee only WDC on 2 + 4 Wheels) & Rindt who was killed too soon.
Shumi was good but is far from alone and not in their league
From Mawech, on Tue 29 Sep 5:15PM
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I wish Stirling Moss were fifty years younger. He would show F1 how to do it.
From John 34, on Tue 29 Sep 4:56PM
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Stirling Moss, the greatset F1 driver that never scored a F1 title but gave Fangio one or two titles. Could have achieved much more than he did. But the greatest F1 driver of all time was Aryton Senna, this one was absolutely terrific. Forget Schuey or Fangio, Clark was another good driver and if he lived on would have won more. It's amazing and sad that the two greatest F1 drivers of all time in the World were killed in an accident driving around fast sweeping flat out corners. And don't forget Jack Brabham and what he achieved, Lauda was a good driver as well as Gilles Villeneuve, Jacques is only a shadow of his father. And don't forget Jackie Stewart, another driver who could have done much more, and was a great team principle and should have continued as team principle when his team was bought out and rebadged Jaguar.
From formula1police, on Tue 29 Sep 3:55PM
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sterling was a very good driver, never a great, he never accomplished the highest award in his sport. greatest driver, fangio-no, fangio had the best cars, it's gotta be michael schumacher without doubt. won championships in good cars and not so good cars - a true great.
From zoso, on Tue 29 Sep 3:19PM
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My Mum was at that race in 62 and she saw Sir Stirling choking on his chewing gum, she has always thought that it was why he crashed and not a prblem with the car. She wrote to him after the crash to let him know as he didn't know what had happened. I don't think she ever heard anything back though.
From jon_smith_31, on Tue 29 Sep 1:14PM
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Farce interview.
"If your house was on fire, what possession would you save first?"
what kind of questions is that?!
From the-tourist, on Tue 29 Sep 12:48PM
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He is bquite right in saying Fangio was the greatest driver and i would say he was a good second best driver ever. they had to put up with death trap cars that were terriffing to be in, not like the cars today with all the saftey involved.
Thats why the great drivers were the ones from Stirlings years and Fangios as well.
From steve.bingham64, on Tue 29 Sep 10:25AM
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