Sportsman of the month: March
Sir Stirling Craufurd Moss, was born in 1929. He is often
called “the greatest driver never to win the world championship”. He started racing cars in 1948 and retired in
1962 because he had a crash which left him in coma for a month. He persuaded his father to give him one of the
new Cooper 500 cars. The race he won was the gold cup for “three consecutive
penalty –free runs”. Presently he holds a job as narrator in official 1988
formula one. Right now his age is 85 years. He drove professionally 84 different
makes of car. Also his sister, Pat Moss,
was in car rallying. Stirling began
racing in earnest at 17. Two years later he took fourth overall and first in
his class driving.
