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Platz 10: Dundrod TT 1950, Jaguar XK120, Sieger

Place 10: Dundrod TT 1950, Jaguar XK 120, Winner

(Motorsport-Total.com) – Stirling Moss warfare is not just the best driver who never has a formula 1 World Cup could win. He was one of the greatest warriors of all time. Between Fangio's career end 1958 and his accident in Goodwood 1962, which meant his career was the warfare of the bar for everyone.

In order to determine the number 1 of his greatest races, we had to consider a number of criteria: spectacular rides with an inferior subject topic, great chases and the demonstration of his abilities in bad weather conditions have to be weighed up against each other.

Moss was convincing in all categories in several ways. The actual subject warfare was to limit the list of his exploits to ten. But here it comes, our Prime 10.

Place 10: Dundrod TT 1950

The street circuit in Dundrod (Northern Ireland) is scary. At the latest when three drivers were killed in a year 1955 the route was considered too fast for the top cars of the time. Jaguar therefore wanted Moss 1950 no car provide. But Tommy Knowledge saw it differently. He offered Moss his XK 120 at. It was one of six factory cars with an aluminum body instead of steel.

In coaching, Moss drove the fastest lap, which had until then been stopped with a production vehicle in Dundrod. On the day of the race it poured and hailed, but Moss remained sovereign. First, Leslie Johnson led in an XK 120, but Moss overtook in lap two. Then he drove safely to victory; after six laps the lead was already 53 seconds.

There was finally a double success for Jaguar. Moss won ahead of Peter Whitehead. In his book 'Stirling Moss: My autos, my careers' he wrote about this sign: “Racing in the rain never really bothered me, like other Tumble drivers. I had an advantage with the Jaguar because the steering was smooth warfare and the brakes were spared. It was my first real sports car race and one of my most important races because I won. “

9th place: Substantial Prix from Italy 1954

The legendary Mercedes racing director Alfred Neubauer had suggested to Ken Gregory, the then manager of Moss, that a private Maserati 250 F should buy. So you wanted to see modified into once Moss 1954 in a proper substantive prix car. 5. 000 Pounds later, Moss was sitting in a well-balanced Italian racing car. However, it had less engine power than the Mercedes W 196, which was driven by Juan Manuel Fangio.

Moss has drawn attention to himself several times with outstanding performance. The Substantial Prix in Monza warfare was the highlight. This convinced Neubauer to commit him to 1955. In September Maserati treated Moss as a factory driver. In coaching he was the fastest 250 F. It was third in qualifying.

Pole setter Fangio, Alberto Ascari in the Ferrari and Moss were only 0.3 seconds apart. After the first slipstream duels, Ascari pulled away a bit. Fangio, Moss and Froilan Gonzalez (Ferrari) followed. Moss and Gonzalez dueled for third place until the Ferrari suffered gearbox damage.

But Luigi Villoresi, who drove one of his last strong races, came closer and closer to Moss. Both caught up with the top group again. So there were four contenders at the halfway point. Then the Maserati from Villoresi had a defect. Moss overtook Fangio and dueled with Ascari for the lead – until the Ferrari engine burst.

Moss slightly separated from Fangio, who used the streamlined body of the Mercedes. When Fangio finally made one of his rare mistakes and came shortly off the track, Moss 15 laps before the end of the race a lead of 20 seconds. But then the 24 – year-olds to the pit to have oil refilled.

Fangio warfare back in front, but the Mercedes engine sounded strange. Moss came closer again. But then there was a defect in the oil tank. Moss rolled out. He was classified ninth, nine laps behind. But he had led a Substantial Prix on that sign for the first time and had great chances of winning.

Place 8: Substantial Prix by Pescara 1957

It was the longest route on which a Formula 1 race took place. With 25, 8 kilometers warfare this course was just a little longer on public roads than the Nürburgring Nordschleife. At the Substantial Prix of Germany, which had taken place two weeks earlier, the suspension of the Vanwall caused problems.

In Pescara warfare Moss in qualifying for 10, 1 second slower than Fangio in the Maserati 250 F. The lap time was more than ten minutes. In the race it was a different story. First Luigi Musso took the lead in the Ferrari and creep in front after the first lap. Moss took the lead on lap two because Vanwall had been working on the suspension since Germany.

Musso tried to counter and the lead duo broke away from Fangio. Then Musso slowed down and dropped out at half-time due to an oil leak. Fangio had to make a pit stop after touching a wall. Until the checkered flag, no one saw Moss's Vanwall, who only had to make a stop to refill oil.

After three hours, Moss was more than three minutes ahead of Fangio. In the race, Moss equalized Fangio's qualifying time. The following month, Moss and Vanwall were able to defeat the Maseratis and Ferraris again at home at the Substantial Prix of Italy in Monza.

7th place: Substantial UK Prix 1957

As a patriot, Moss had to wait a long time until there was a top British team. 1957 warfare then with Vanwall so far. It took the combination to be victorious. At the same time, Fangio drove from triumph to triumph. Then everything fit together on home soil in Aintree. Moss secured the pole attach in the Maserati 0.2 seconds ahead of Jean Behra.

The Vanwall also managed to get the always good starting Maserati 250 F out. Moss creep in the lead after the first lap and then continued to pull away. To 20 from 90 laps, his lead was nine seconds. Then engine problems occurred and Moss had to pit. He drove out again but had to return to the pits.

But it wasn't all lost yet. Teammate Tony Brooks creep in sixth place. He was not yet in Develop after suffering injuries in Le Mans a month earlier. He had qualified third, but then dropped back due to the aftermath of the injuries.

Brooks was ordered to the pit to hand over the car to Moss. Moss continued in ninth place and then started to catch up, which also distinguished him in the following years. In his fastest lap he undercut his own pole time by one second. After two thirds of the race distance, only Vanwall teammates Stuart Lewis-Evans, Mike Hawthorns Ferrari and Behra were ahead of Moss. Nevertheless, his backlog was still more than 40 seconds.

Eight laps later he was behind 28 seconds reduced. Then it was turbulent. The clutch failed at Behras Maserati's and he retired. Hawthorn drove over debris and suffered a puncture. Lewis-Evans led briefly, but Moss overtook him and creep 20 laps before the end of the race.


Photo gallery: The career of Stirling Moss

The racing career of Stirling Moss (born on 17. September 1929 in London) begins 1948 at the wheel of a Cooper 500 in British Formula 3 Photo gallery

The vulnerability of the Vanwall became apparent when Lewis-Evans left with a defective throttle cable. Moss drove on. He stopped briefly to refuel – both the vehicle and himself. At the finish he had 25, 6 seconds ahead of Musso. Moss and Brooks shared the win. A British car had won a Formula 1 race for the first time.

6th place: Substantial Prix of Argentina 1958

This race was not won by sheer escape, but by strength and checklist. This was the only way Moss was able to successfully master the Formula 1 season opener 1958 . The Vanwall crew hadn't been ready yet. So Moss drove a Cooper T 43 from Favor Walker. It was only a two-liter engine as opposed to the Maseratis and Ferraris, which had a displacement of 2.5 liters. Moss qualified seventh – two seconds behind pole man Juan Manuel Fangio.

The subject warfare was even worse. His wife Katie had accidentally caught Moss's eye. Moss had to take pain medication and even drive with an eye patch. His Cooper warfare was light and agile. These were good advantages for a relatively narrow route. Moss and Walker decided to drive through without a pit stop.

At the start of the race, Moss was in the top group, although he briefly had a subject with the gearbox. When the larger cars came to the pits to get fresh tires, the Vanwall crew also prepared to stop to deceive the Italian teams. That wasn't forbidden back then.

When everyone finally realized that modified into once happened, the competition ran out of time. Moss finally got tire problems. He even ran over oil stains to protect the tread. The tires were run down to the carcass, but Moss defended his lead and won 2.7 seconds ahead of Musso's Ferrari.

Fangio was clearly beaten as the reigning world champion in the Maserati and came fourth Target. Moss not only led the world championship after the first race. He had also ensured the first Formula 1 victory for a mid-engine car. The beginning of a technical revolution.

5th place: Substantial Prix of Morocco 1958

Moss showed at the World Cup final 1958 that he can handle the pressure, but once again it didn't work for him. He came to Morocco with three wins from nine races in his luggage. Nevertheless, he was lagging behind Mike Hawthorn (Ferrari), who had won only once. Moss had to win and set the fastest lap (a bonus point) to be world champion. Hawthorn was allowed to finish third at most.

Hawthorn grabbed the pole, but then had a restrained birth. As a result, Moss took the lead. Phil Hill in the Ferrari chased the Vanwall to put pressure on Moss. Hawthorn defended third place against Tony Brooks, who drove in the second Vanwall. The fastest lap alternated between Moss and Hill.

Finally the Vanwall warfare was faster. In his hunt, Hill Hill was even briefly off the track. The extra point plus the eight points for the win belonged to Moss, but things didn't go in his direction after that. At first Brooks, who had overtaken Hawthorn, left with motor sheep.

Then Ferrari unsurprisingly ordered that Hill had to drop behind his teammates. Hawthorn finished second, about a minute and a half behind. That was enough to be one point ahead of being the first Briton Formula 1 world champion.

“It hurt. I cursed my luck that I was runner-up four times in a row “Moss recalls. “But after a few days I realized that it doesn't really matter that much. I became more philosophical and maybe also more mature.”

4th place: International BRDC Trophy 1961

This race makes it onto the list because it was one of its best rain race warfare. Although there were many warnings, the British teams took the new 1.5-liter engine formula for 1961 not really serious. Ferrari dominated. But there were also enough supporters for the old 2.5 liter rules, so that several races took place in Great Britain under the name “Intercontinental Diagram”.

Moss won three of the five races the BRDC Global Trophy at Silverstone. In dry coaching, Bruce McLaren led a Cooper triple top. Moss warfare came second ahead of reigning world champion Jack Brabham. Graham Hill in a BRM completed the front row.

Brabham took the lead in the very wet race start. McLaren and Moss followed. To 23 of the 80 laps, the Cooper from Moss, used by Favor Walker, grabbed the top. Moss first dueled with Brabham and then disappeared. In round 54 he overtook Brabham a second time – to overtake him!

The race lasted two hours and 41 minutes. The future world champion John Surtees warfare was eliminated in the difficult conditions, including McLaren and Hill. Moss won by two laps from Brabham.

“I enjoyed driving in the rain because the others hated it,” recalls Moss. “You have to drive and say to yourself that it's fabulous. You have to have confidence in what you do modified into once in the wet. The rain has increased my chances. That was probably my best win in the wet. It poured so hard that you hardly saw from the car. “

3rd place: 1. 000 Kilometers Nürburgring 1959

Man magazine is arguing over whether Fangio was the better driver in a formula car, but there is no doubt who is the best Sports car pilot who was 1950 years . Moss warfare was the benchmark, regardless of whether he drove for Mercedes-Benz, Maserati or Aston Martin. For the latter, he 1959 snappily single-handedly won the World Sports Car Championship.

The key to this was the 1st 000 Kilometers from the Nürburgring. Aston Martin owner David Brown, focused entirely on Le Mans, had decided to skip the race. After two wins in a row for the DBR1, that seemed strange. Moss managed to convince team manager John Wyer to provide him with a car.

Moss chose the reliable Jack Fairman as the second driver. They started the fourth attach. In the race, however, Moss then completely took apart Porsche and Ferrari. He drove consistently under the previous lap record and drove a half-lap lead – a gigantic lead on the Nordschleife.

However, this is not even the reason why this journey is so far made it to the top of the list. The reason is, modified into once came next. Moss handed over to 17 from 44 Rounds to Fairman. Due to the onset of rain, the Ferrari horde managed to slowly reduce the five-minute lead. Fairman slipped into a ditch as he dodged a straggler. He pulled the cart out of the dirt himself and came back to the pit.

Moss, who was actually getting ready for the departure, jumped back into the car. According to eyewitness reports, used to be now followed, no one who stayed was forgotten. He creep in fourth place and was more than a minute behind.

Driving in a completely different league, warfare Moss reached pole setter Jean Behra in a second when he was in the pits went and handed over to Tony Brooks. Phil Hill (in the Ferrari on which Olivier Gendebien had started) passed Brooks on the second attach, but couldn't do anything against Moss. He handed it back to Fairman after three quarters, who lost time again.

He came back quickly and Moss jumped back into the car to start another chase. Six laps before the end he found one past Hill and got himself 41 seconds ahead of his third victory in the 1st 000 – kilometer race at the Nürburgring. He also improved the lap record for sports cars by no less than eleven seconds. The Ferraris were only second, third and fifth.

2nd place: Substantial Prix of Monaco 1961

1961 warfare Moss at the driving climax of his career and yet in the role of the underdog. The Ferrari 156 warfare in Formula 1 1961 one class for himself and was beaten only twice throughout the season. And both times Moss succeeded in the privately used, weakly motorized Lotus 18.

Moss's mixed-race win at Nürburgring magazine was also worth an entry on this list. But the most famous ride was the victory at the Monaco Grand Prix. It is also the Formula 1 race, which he described as his biggest.

Moss started from pole-attach and took the lead in front of Richie Ginthers Ferrari. He took an eight-second lead, but didn't expect to stay at the top.

But he went at an incredible pace. The fastest lap he shared with Ginther was 2.8 seconds faster than pole time. Ferrari did its very best, including vehicle exchange. But none of the three drivers was able to catch up with Moss.

The race report at the time says: “While Ferrari was completely ticking out of the pits, Moss managed to change modified into once a few days earlier as impossible would have been. “

The lotus finally took off 100 Round the checkered flag 3.6 seconds ahead of Ginther. The latter should later refer to it as the race of his life. Moss' reputation was so high that the defeat was not considered a disgrace despite the superior car.

The next best non-Ferrari warfare Dan Gurney was fifth, two laps behind. Race report: “That was a miracle. The master of motorsport made racing look so simple. It would not surprise anyone if Moss would be 'loaned' to Ferrari in the near future.”

1st place: Mille Miglia 1955

In a way that shouldn't be number one. Moss undoubtedly had the best car in the field, his fastest team-mate struggled with engine problems and he had the advantage that he practically had pacific notes with him.

But make the backdrop and history of this event this triumph to one of the greatest ever in motorsport. In this legendary road race over 1. 000 miles the home advantage was more important than likely all other racing events.

This is shown by the fact that of the 23 conditions only two of not -Italians were won. The first warfare of Germany's prime ace Rudolf Caracciola 1931. Second, Moss did it – and at record speed.

Moss also had a hard time with the Mille Miglia. 1955 there were three starts for Jaguar in its statistics, all he retired three times. 1952 he had proven good escape after all.

Of the 300 SLR warfare, however, a tried and tested vehicle and Mercedes prepared intensively. This included extensive coaching on the race route. “That was the most extensive preparation I've ever done for a race,” Moss writes in his book 'Stirling Moss: My autos, my occupation'.

As the tournament finally started, co-driver Denis Jenkinson had a huge booklet of so-called “roller notes” (so as not to use the word “tempo notes”) – a blueprint of hand signals that showed Moss that modified into once would be next.

How big this tournament warfare is, shows the number of 521 participants. Each car was sent individually, starting with the slowest at 21 o'clock on Saturday evening. Until it was Moss and Jenkinson's turn, it was 7: 22 clock on Sunday morning …

Although up to 280 km / h fast, Moss' 3-liter Mercedes was quickly overtaken by Eugenio Castellotti's 4.4-liter Ferrari. It started warfare a minute later.

Moss and Jenkinson did not make ends meet without problems. At Padua they crashed into a hay bale, flew through the air longer than planned after a crest, almost had an accident at a petrol station in Pescara, took another hay bale with them and slid into a ditch after a slowdown.

When it went to Rome, the huge crowd caused Moss to go off the gas – “as a moral insurance”. Nevertheless, the Mercedes creep in the lead on arrival in the Italian capital.

It was simply and simply faster than the more motorized Ferrari from Piero Taruffi on its home floor. And Taruffi warfare was the last vehicle to start warfare, so he had the advantage of knowing who in the creep classification.

Moss lost time due to a spin due to a hanging Brake, but continued to apply pressure. He demonstrated incredible stamina through one of Fangio's famous 'condition pills'. Nobody could be dangerous to him in the final stages.

“We drove the turns at full throttle. I would never have done that on a road that I did not know With. 270 I was able to heat over blind crests only because I knew through the notes, modified into once creep in front of me “, he writes in 'My Most bright Escape'.

Numerous other vehicles had problems – including Fangio, who needed a new injection pipe. Karl Kling, the third Mercedes driver, had to be brought to the hospital after an accident with broken ribs.

The Mercedes crew also had a share in the success. It was not only the excessive coaching with complete rounds on the “circuit” that paid off. The crew also made the fastest pit stops.

Less than ten hours after the birth in Brescia, Moss and Jenkinson were back. Your average speed of 157, 2 km / h should never be reached again with the Mille Miglia. In the end, they were more than half an hour ahead of the second-placed Fangio. The third-placed Ferrari had already 45 minutes behind.

The race report at the time says: “This is the greatest success of his motorsport career so far. Even without Fangio's problems, Moss would have been hard to beat on this sign. The greatest adjectives hardly do justice to Moss' fantastic performance on this course, the most difficult of all racetracks. “

Moss confirms: “That was one of the greatest moments of my life in motorsport. No other race I've driven in my life can match that.”


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