Stirling Moss with Doug Nye

Widely acknowledged to have been the greatest all-
round racing driver the world has ever seen, Stirling
Moss became Great Britain's ‘Mr Motor Racing’ in the
1950s. He was, and remains, our best-known
‘superstar’ driver. Until his front-line career was cut
short by near-fatal and still-unexplained accident at
Goodwood early in 1962, he was the standard-setter
of his time — the driver by whom all others measured
their own abilities.
Although the ultimate crown of the Drivers‘ World
Championship always just eluded him, he was its most
consistently successful contender following the
retirement of that other great motor racing legend, five
times World Champion Juan Manuel Fangio, who
taught him so much.
Moss lived to race. He would drive any kind of car,
anywhere, and he did, in Europe, North America, South
America and Australasia. He competed for thirteen
hectic years world-wide, driving more different types
of competition car than anyone else of such class before
or since.
Here, with Doug Nye, Moss reviews his outstanding
career against the framework of more than eighty
different car types which he drove in Formula 1,
Formula 2, Formula 3, Indianapolis-style oval speedway
racing, sports, GT and saloon car events. This includes
every thing from World Championship Grands Prix to
the Le Mans 24-Hours endurance classic, everything
from seven-day World record attempts to humble five-
lap races round Goodwood aerodrome.
Through Moss the Maestro's words the reader learns
the real strengths and weaknesses of most of the
period’s great classic racing cars. He compares them
one to another, and explains exactly what happened
and why — often race-by-race — in his hundreds of
races, rallies and hill-climb events.
This is the first-ever all-embracing coverage of the
complete career of Great Britain's pre-eminent motor
racing star, whose victories included no less than
sixteen 0fthe66Grands Prix in which he started, many
more of which he had led until mechanical misfortune
intervened. His victories included GPs at such classic
venues as Monte Carlo, Monza and the mighty
Nurburgring. He won the legendary Mille Miglia round-
Italy road race at a near-100 mph average speed, which
was never bettered. He won the classical RAC Tourist
Trophy race no less than seven times . . . He was truly
the uncrowned Champion of the World.
The name of Stirling Moss remains synonymous with
fast driving and fast cars. In this book, profusely
illustrated in black-and-white and colour, and packed
with insight and nostalgic anecdote, Moss reveals_an
exclusive and entertaining story of a great age of racing
told by the man who dominated much of it. Many of the
background details have never before been revealed,
and this fascinating account of the full career of one
of motor racing’s all-time greats, set against detailed
appraisals of all the cars in which he ever competed,
will appeal both to informed enthusiast and general
reader alike.
Moss's collaborator in this work, award-winning
racing journalist and historian Doug Nye, has more
than thirty books to his credit. He is a leading British
contributor to the respected American magazine Road
& Track, and is also a regular writer for numerous other
motor racing and motoring publications