With Stirling Moss’s death lost the motor sport one of its greatest legends. And Kevin Magnussen lost his great exemplar.
The 90-year-old Moss died on Sunday after prolonged illness at his home in central London.
“It is in all ways an incredible man who is dead today,” says Magnussen B. T.
Stirling Moss won the never the WORLD championship in Formula 1, but was nevertheless common acclaimed as the world’s best race car driver in the late 1950s and early ‘ 60s. The patriotic englishman finished second or third in the WORLD in all the seasons from 1955 to 61, but never got quite to the top, usually because he insisted to run for the English teams.
Next to the Formula 1 WORLD championship, he put up a number to different classes, and he drove the race about every weekend. He was several times on the Roskilde Ring, where he in 1961 won a Formula 1 race outside of the WORLD cup series.
As the superstar ended the he big amount just to make up, and he was quick wealthy. He built in the early 1960s to a sophisticated house in central London, where he lived until his death. Here visited Kevin Magnussen him in 2016.
It was kommunikationschefen for Magnussens former team McLaren, Matt Bishop, which secured to dane met his idol.
“I knew that Matt knows Sir Stirling, and I asked if he could get me an autograph,” said Magnussen at the time to B. T.
“But Matt said, ‘Let us visit him’. So we were invited to lunch with Sir Stirling and Lady Susie in their house in Mayfair. It was…overwhelming to meet him. He is SO much a legend.”
“It was a pleasure to meet Kevin,” said the English racerlegende after the meeting and added:
“He is a nice young man, and he was really interested in hearing about my career. At that point, he is refreshingly different compared to most other young Formula 1 drivers. It seems as if Kevin really understands how important the history is.”
Stirling Moss was the favorite to finally win the Formula 1 WORLD championships in 1962, when he in the spring of crashed seriously on the Goodwood circuit.
He lay in a coma for a month, but came out slowly. He, however, had to abandon to return to racing, but ever since he has been one of the sport’s most well-known ambassadors.
“Sir Stirling Moss is in my eyes the epitome of a true racer and a great person, which I was lucky to get the privilege to get to know. Stirling will forever be one of motor sport’s greatest legends,” said Magnussen B. T.
