Racing Legends - Stirling Moss

I'm actor Patrick Stewart and a lifelong motor

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fan. Now I am about to embark on a journey that will bring to life the career of one of my all-time heroes. 50's

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legend Sir Sterling Moss is awesome, this one is a little tighter. a little tighter that's the F. I'm getting behind the wheel of the cars he drove to Glory, sorry and reliving his most memorable victories firsthand. I am the one who crosses the line to win in record time. That is beautiful. All to help me understand how. one man won the hearts and minds of the British public is a fast car story that tells how 10 seconds stop epic battles, it's over and survival against all odds, are you going to try to persuade him to stop racing after this ? that she is there, oh Lord, do you think you are indestructible?

Why should I have another accident? Now I'm going to experience the story of Sterling Moss from the driver's seat. This beats the Enterprise any day we're here in Silson and, uh, me. I'm driving in a celebrity race. I want to cross the finish line at the Silverstone Grand Prix circuit when I pass the control flag in position 15. There are 15 of us. Acting may be my passion, but I have always loved cars and I am 72 years old. I just got my racing license. One of the problems with motorsport is that I don't really like to go very fast. 12.

Seb appears to be sitting in an armed chair, totally relaxed. I reach a point where I think it's fast enough and that's a disadvantage for me, racing a car for a living is a wild fantasy epitomized by a man I've always envied and respected. When I was a child there was an English driver called Sterling Moss and Sterling lived in a world as remote as possible from my world, a working class boy growing up in Midtown in West Yorkshire, as an aspiring actor I was seduced by the world of Sterling's speed and glamour, it is difficult to communicate with today's enthusiasts who were not lucky enough to be alive at the time, what a great driver he was.

Five world records broken by approximately 20%. His name represents being a true runner. This is a country that loves motor racing and him. He is probably the biggest star of all. When he walked past people, which he did frequently on the slopes, of course, he always greeted them chivalrously. Sterling waved his hand. In fact, they must have been very irritated by his ability and it's decent of him, but I want to get it. meet the real Sterling Moss and Patrick Stewart taking ninth place and under his watchful eye try to emulate one of his greatest victories. I wonder if that means I'll have to get better at driving fast in a way I could never have anticipated.

Things have come together, two people, all before they met the man. I need to know more about why Sterling Moss was such a successful driver. Sterling Moss #28 Maserati took an early lead and held it, so I enlisted the help of a man who has driven. in almost as many disciplines as Moss Tiffy Dell has raced Formula 1 in Monaco sports cars at LaMore and has participated in forest rallies in England if anyone knows what it takes to be a complete driver he does Tiff look at this it's an excellent mosque running across the track jumping so agilely into his car sliding into the seat and leaving with 15 or 20 other cars why was there something different and special about this driver?

It almost started with that start that we're seeing now because it was this economy. of movement the relaxed posture behind the wheel is really cool I think they have the brain before the body so you know what the car was going to do before you got there Sterling Moss was Britain's first post-war professional racing driver. the drive of his life, if you are a professional racing driver you are there to try to win but therefore you have to keep your blood pressure up all the time, he was the man that teenagers wanted to be and that women wanted to be with be. a beautiful BL beautiful young woman but his career was very different from that of a modern driver.

I am the one who crosses the line to win in record time. He went from team to team, from rally to racing. Very distinctive. It was effective when the best drivers drove in all disciplines. on a race day, he makes Formula 1 saloons, sports cars on the same day, the same extraordinary day, that is the best illustration of the quality of his technique, that he could change in that way, it did not have to be programmed for a single vehicle. Sterling reached the same top speeds as modern drivers, up to 180 mph, but with very little grip, poor brakes, and no safety precautions.

I realized that perhaps the most surprising thing is that he is still alive. Here we are, we look in the pits and they are refueling. It's splashing everywhere look, you know, there's barely room for the car, it's hard to get through the crowd of spectators there at the end, skills in his time were much more important. Death is something that scares me when I think it won't happen. It's less likely to happen, so I don't think about it and his car crashes into the crowd. Four people die immediately. It was one of the reasons there was so much camaraderie among the drivers and so many of his colleagues and friends were seriously injured or killed.

I'll be meeting him face to face very soon and having seen this film and heard you talk about what was so special about Sterling M, I'm really looking forward to it, he's a wonderful man, you're going to have a great time. meet a real hero, thanks, I'm a little nervous. I'm meeting Sterling for the first time at his flat in Mayfair and things haven't changed around here since my last visit. I have a confession to make right now, decades ago. When I was 20, I found out from a friend who worked in Mayfair that this was where Sterling lived and I was such a fan that I walked here and practically stood in this spot looking at the house, in excitement and amazement, Patrick.

Sister, you are coming, good morning, this is a great pleasure for me and a pleasure. Let me go to my office and walk you through the way Sterling has lived here for the past 55 years after purchasing the land as a bomb site and building a three-story house to his exacting specifications my bedroom is fully automated there are alarm buttons control for the closet doors for the curtains to fill the bathroom and whatever Precision is very important and so it was for me in my life and for me I knew exactly what I wanted, where, so being able to build a house that one designed was a great help to me.

The walls contain my stereo equipment, my radio recorder, record player and of course some of my most prized prizes. Sterling's house is like a museum. a shrine to an incredible life that, unsurprisingly, likes to be remembered for. I had such a fantastic life when I was young. I can't tell you the age of 16 17 years old, suddenly you take the car to go out and play with it and drive as hard as you can and beat other drivers. Fabulous life. From very early on you were considered one of the English sports Playboys. I am right? Oh, absolutely, I'm certainly straight, let's put it that way Petra Sherman. from Germany won the title 33233 a good balance traveling since I've been all over the world when you go somewhere you meet a pretty girl and you leave.

I would say it was probably the best life anyone could ask for. Actually in my line of business there are many interesting moments and artifacts in this room, but the first thing that caught my attention are the two flyers hanging above the door that seem to have suffered some anguish when I think about the aggro it gave. For me, I mean broken back, broken legs in one and in the other they force me to leave so it's not good news in any way but don't you feel in any way superstitious that they are hanging above the door no no Everything I can To tell you with your fingers, in reality, he lost his teeth, broke his shoulder, both legs, his back, his skull and has been in a coma for 38 days thanks to motor racing.

One of the reasons why I participated and wanted to participate was because the bado of Youth was dangerous you know here I am 17 18 years old doing something that is really dangerous it is exciting and stimulating you know yes but it was more than really dangerous it was potentially fatal we were losing three or four drivers a year every year every year, uh, when it happens, I would say well, you know, if it had been me, I'm sure I would have been in a slightly different position or I wouldn't have done this or that would have never exactly happened to you. exactly yes I have ever had an accident that I felt was my fault.

I think I would have stopped and you never did. No, I didn't get into the elevator. This is interesting because it is a carbon fiber elevator and it was made for me. for the Williams Formula 1 team, as you can see, I was surprised that Sterling was so positive about the danger he faced, we're there, we're there, well, I got over it even after the accident in 1962 that ended his career. Oh Lord, where did all the blood come from, really the car is completely totaled, it barely looks exactly like a race car now, when I got out, I'd be doing 140 at least, well, they thought I was going to die, I think actually, but uh , I'm glad to say this a long, long time ago, come, get out and let's go in this little car. um, what was the first car I actually learned to drive with here we are, what if that's not so lovely?

Oh, this is wonderful, so how? How old were you when you came into this in this uh six what six years yeah six on the farm yeah Sterling had borrowed the Austin so we could retrace his steps from the beginning of his career we were going to his childhood home he? where I was able to learn more about how he became a racing legend is this levy that we're going to, we're going to get to bra Village, yeah, so the roads around here were the roads that you had your first driving experience on. Oh, absolutely, you see LIF, all clear, Sterling.

He hasn't been in white clouds for long since he lived here as a teenager. His father, a dentist, obviously performed well. It's absolutely fantastic. I mean, the change is huge. I really never would have thought he would ever live here. The temperatures are here. Oh. Absolutely so, he grew up in a beautiful place, but surprisingly his early years were not as idyllic as you might think. I had a lot of problems with harassment. My name was Moss and they called me Yid. It was a pretty tough upbringing. It is not. very nice when you are 10 or 11 years old, do you think it had a positive impact on your later years?

I think he probably had it. I'm a competitive person so I always enjoyed sprinting and that kind of stuff so that's how you were successful in school being athletic yeah I certainly think that was a help. Sterling responded by proving his worth as an athlete and then with the ladies I also met a real cookie named Sylvia and my mother came running back through the door. I was there, of course, and she turned to Sil. Is this the way a young girl behaves? Then I pushed her behind me. I told him: if you want to talk to Silvia, please do it through me like a big drama.

In the late 1940s, motor racing was an amateur sport that Sterling's parents enjoyed. He and his sister Pat were encouraged to drive from an early age, but most of his early training came from a hobby that didn't involve cars that my mother was interested in. horses and of course there were stables there originally. The lessons you learned from balancing a horse are very similar. The same thing happens with a car when you take a curve. You try to keep the car balanced throughout the journey. I won. 50 or 60 prizes, any money, any cash, yeah, and I used that money to buy my first racing car and my dad found my checkbook and said what's this £50?

I think they were and I had to confess that there was a tank in the race car. he said no son of mine was going to be a racing driver so I had to give him a lot of massages to get my dad to agree and then he told me if you're going to race you're going to wear a protective hat and I told him dad that's it and he He said: I don't care, you're going to wear a protective hat. Sterling's father was disappointed because he did not want to be a dentist and he doubted that he could make a living from a hobby but as he grew older.

At 20 he had a reputation as a fearless young driver, although the difficulty for any young racing driver is to prove himself in the face of great opposition. Sterling Moss had to make his way, but no British manufacturer would contemplate giving him the boy, a ride in the TT on the eve of his 21st birthday Sterling turned up at Britain's biggest sports car race, the ster TT with a car that had borrowed from a family friend, it was fresh off the assembly line, in fact the manufacturers weren't too happy with Sterling driving it, so it seems like you were sticking your neck out and making the offer.

No, no, some of us had watched Sterling for a long time, we knew he was on the rise and up. When the end camerace week, Sterling Moss came down in buckets, this was Mana from Heaven because it was a chance to show what he could do against the established stars in Great Cars. Yes, they're outside and that's Sterling Moss jumping into his Jaguar car. I remember going by there and obviously they gave me pit signals and I could see he was gaining a little bit here and there. I like the wet one. I think it's using my style.

It worked in my favor. I want to win the Tourist Trophy. It was quite overwhelming for me, I had never really won a really serious race, the Elation makes you cry and that night Jaguar asked him if he would lead the works team in 1951 and suddenly you have rival team bosses saying who he is. This guy, how can he go so fast? Sterling m in another Jaguar went at approximately 106 mph as a member of the jagu team Sterling made a name for himself in various competitions in the young but more capable hands of Sterling Moss, the 21-year-old who is Britain's best racing hope until the death, he believes that people wanted a hero after the war Sterling because he was young he gave people some joy and hope, I think Sterling He had won the country over with his performances in the Jaguar sports cars, but he also wanted to conquer the glamorous world of high-speed Formula 1.

The Italian Ferraris want to dominate the new field of Formula 1, just like today. Formula 1 in the 1950s meant thoroughbred single-seaters. cars, but back then the world championship was dominated by the Italians, you can't really think of Formula 1 without Ferrari, they are part national institution and part racing team. To be a Ferrari racing driver would be to have come to fully understand Sterling's ability. He arrived on the continent where he was invited to drive for the famous manipulator Enzo Ferari. He was a man who I think everyone was quite afraid of. I think even the managers of his team had an accident.

He first asked about the car before asking the driver. He offered me a car and I went to Barry, in the south of Italy, with my delighted father, but at the last minute Ferrari opted for a famous Italian driver and I discovered that the car had been given to Terui. Sterling did not accept. kindly to the snob and that's why he turned his back on the biggest name in motorsport. I was very angry that a gentleman wouldn't do that and I swore at that moment that he would never drive for Ferrari. He returned from Italy determined to win the Formula 1 World Championship with a British car.

I'm very excited, Ray, because it finally looks like we're going to have the chassis, the road grip and an engine built for the job, so that PS will be able to compete with the Italians on their own turf, we certainly have the driver, So we'll keep our fingers crossed. In the end, I will come to you. Ferrari found an Englishman happy to drive his cars in 1953. Fun-loving Mike Hawthorne was the man who bested this tall, womanizing, heavy-drinking young man. a farum guy came on the scene oh there's no comparison between stuuring and mike and you found out that people who like

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don't like hawthorne and vice versa.

I would like to say how much I enjoy racing today. It has certainly given me a lot. I was prepared to win the trophy. Sterling with his local technology had reached the lowest point of his career. Too bad the problems deprive Moss of the victory. His determination to lead the British had become an insurmountable handicap if he was to keep up with Hawthorne. He needed to drive for a big team. Then his father took drastic measures. My father then went to see Maserati. They came to an agreement where they would provide me with the same cars they competed with.

They would keep it updated if anything new appeared. They bought it without telling me, but. They bought it with my money Fed up with British cars, Sterling's father bought an Italian Maserati in the hope that they would catch the attention of a major team. I was surprised how much of my money they had obviously spent, but the main thing was that my back was now against the wall, the Maserati 250f is a magnificent car even now and it was a car that Sterling Moss felt totally at home with and suddenly was producing these world-class performances that opened the eyes of people around the world to the quality and skills of this young man, the plan worked and the German giants Mercedes came knocking after not having competed since the war.

Mercedes had returned and they wanted a youthful and experienced team. Sterling provided then double world junior champion Fangio with the experience and henceforth nicknamed him. the guy somehow didn't seem appropriate anymore Mercedes wanted to win in every racing category and sent

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and fio to Italy to take on the Italian giants in their own backyard. My next meeting with Sterling will be in Florence where, with the resources of Mercedes behind him, he set his sights on the world's toughest sports car race here we are early in the morning in Florence Florence exactly why we are in Florence and what it means for you and me that we are in Florence because this is one of the best places where we used to compete going through the middle of the race from the city to yes and what race would this be the Mia 1955 all the Italians knew what the Mia was everyone they saw an incredible atmosphere I can't tell you that the Mia was the sports car equivalent of the tour to France 1,000 miles of racing on public roads and the race ends where it started exactly in braia in braia yes, just over 10 hours later, this sounds very , very challenging, yes it was, but why don't we go in and find out what it's like? come on, you know you wouldn't believe it, but we actually run on roads like this in the melee, um, yeah, the bikes wouldn't be there, but they should run there and it's little more than the width of a car, oh, absolutely, and here it comes.

Moss is way out front with the Met and what kind of speed would you go down the street like that? Well, you get up to 100 thousand per hour. To win, Sterling needed to know the roads better than the Italians themselves, so with navigator Dennis Jenkinson. He studied until the last mile in my favorite car of all time, the Sublime Mercedes, look at that beautiful car that is our transportation. Come, we should try it. Yes, yes, it is glorious. Your seat, isn't it lovely? I've never been so close. to this vehicle before it is impressive we are passing by a very beautiful side how much time did you have to admire the view sir?

I didn't look around too much. I have to be honest because on this course we would probably get to 110 120 This is quite a winding road as you can see drops from left to right, you go down here and you give it a start here and I think you'll get to the next corner in no time. Absolutely magical. Absolutely magical, but I realize it. I am now 83 years old, not 25. I will drive around every corner much more carefully and with more respect. Were there any deaths in 55 onwards? I think so, but there were every year. I've been told, but it's inevitable.

I think the people. They are going to kill me. I heard that the race was stopped on instructions from the Vatican. I've heard that I don't know if it's true. I couldn't reach him by phone. He was continually talking. I would have thought if anyone could call the Pope to sell it it would be you, at what point did you know there was one after you? Well, that was a horrible thing, yes, crossing the finish line. I had no idea. I knew it was probably at one, but I had to wait. Until all the cars that started after me passed, how did you celebrate that night?

Oh my God, we had celebrations there and you were alone, oh no, no, I hope I had the young lady with me, but I have to look up, my, my, my. Saying exactly exactly driving the route was like going back in time and he made me think about what he was doing in 1955. He was leaving Murphi Secondary Modern School at the time. He was in love with the director, but she never knew it and, of course, I did. I was never brave enough to make any kind of advance while you were driving young women from Fresia to Stuttgart after they had won the M for a million.

Yes to each one. No, boy. I'm sorry I'm not the attractive young woman you had with you. I am too, but I enjoy his company, Mr. Sterling. Oh, Lord Sterling certainly knew how to live the good life, but he was learning that when it came to careers, he left nothing to chance. How did he know what was coming on a Thousand Mile circuit? Jenx was my co-pilot, he was my passenger and he had something we called swamp R and here you can see it's all written down, several signs here, get off here, I think a railroad and then something was flat after a sign like that.

These things have an interpretation that he then gave me through hand signals, like he gave me a humpback bridge right left slower and then much slower, all kinds of different hands, which was go faster, go faster it was like that, that meant you were completely, it's beautiful, it worked. Yes, yes, but it was the driver's seat I want to occupy. Okay, so let's go first. Yes, should I take it out? Yes, take it out. I'm sorry. Alright. Yes, I see that driving a racing Legend is stressful, to say the least, but. Behind the wheel of such a beautiful car, my confidence began to grow.

I never imagined a scenario like this in my life that doesn't even begin to include you as my passenger or the path we are on. Look at this landscape. Know? Can you imagine a much better life for an 18 year old kid driving all over Europe racing every weekend and being able to meet The Crumpet and have fun. You know, Wonderful Life. I don't have a problem with it now I understand why the meleia doesn't have without a doubt the most impressive victory Sterling Moss, with the help of jensx and his bog roll, he drove for 10 hours at an average of almost 100 mph, it's that guy of superhuman feat that turns drivers into

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, are you okay?

Yes, I have no problem, no problem. Trust me a couple of times, thank you sir, a happy return home for the 25-year-old driver who, according to experts, will be a future world champion after having conquered Italy in a sports car. Sterling returned home determined to make a name for himself in Formula 1 in At that time no British driver had won a Grand Prix on home soil. M with the fastest lab is in CL position with Fer next to him and Hawthorne is in an unusual position for him. The fifth row here we are, we listen to Kamai.

Here's Sterling. in the Mercedes there is fanio when it comes to Formula 1 Sterling would always be in the shadow of his mentor the big fanjo in the leading fanjo is pushed by MK who sits right behind him, but in front of the home crowd the substitute had the impulse to his life through melan Crossing he plays the banjo with moss on his heel very, very close together and it's less than a quarter mile away now when they reach the corner of T and the crowd rises to greet moss and Moss greets ptio and They are going to cross the line by giving victory to Sterling Moss of Great Britain for the first time in the history of motorsports.

The British Grand Prix has been won by an Englishman at the age of 25. Sterling Moss had become a national hero but he was About to receive a harsh reminder that motorsport was the deadliest sport the world had ever seen, Moss calmly signed autographs while waiting for Fio to bring the Mercedes for his stint behind the wheel and just before 6:30 with 2 and 1./2 hours later disaster struck in the worst car accident in history at Lamon, one of Sterling's Mercedes teammates was thrown into the crowd in a few terrifying seconds death wipes out entire families L dies before the eyes of his wife and about 70 spectators with him Sterling was lucky not to be involved but the dream of Mercedes is over the complete list of victims of the stutgart disaster is announced he gives orders to stop in the pits the two Mercedes are withdrawn from the race lo They took off at 4:00 in the morning with The three lap lead with the Jaguar certainly wasn't going to make anyone come back, but I don't know why it did that, so I couldn't win any more in L, but not winning was the least Of Sterling's concerns so soon after the disaster, Mercedes pulled out. from Motorsport Mr.

Tony Vanderville, former racing driver and wealthy industrialist, produced the prototype of the Vanwall Formula 1 car. Sterling had no Formula 1 team, but in Britain he was finally producing a car that could challenge the Italian giants. Tony Vanderville always voiced his career. His ambition was to beat those damned red cars, so the Vanwall and its engine were slowly and expensively developed. A masterpiece of engine design in a strong yet lightweight chassis. 18 months after the Lamon disaster. Sterling signed up to lead the all-British team The Van Walls. Resplendent in their British racing green they are maneuvered into positions comfortably near the front of Italy's red machines.

We had a car in British racing green that could beat the others and so that's a fantastic thing, but would it be the same old story? The best thing about the British was the van wall, but it was unreliable and not good enough, but it was getting closer and closer to Ferrari and Maserati and then came the British Grand Prix in a Tre in 1957, the team was desperate to score. his first victory at home, soVanderville devised a plan that would be inconceivable today, your friend Brooks, on his injured leg. In those days, drivers could swap cars mid-race, so Sterling's injured teammate agreed to give up his if necessary.

Martin uh accident in Lal um just over 3 weeks before he was in a pretty sorry state. I said if anything happens to your car running, take my car now, the moment when the drama engines accelerate the air shaking, they are off, this really set the scene of an extraordinary car race begins now, a gloomy race of MOS against the clock. Sterling got a big lead but then the inevitable happened and my goodness he made a pipe go to inject a pipe so I went back to the pits, he steered his T Tony. Brooks, on lap 27, Tony recognized him and I think he was quite relieved because he was in considerable pain, then we dragged him out and I jumped, but by taking Brook's car, Moss also took his position in the race and So fell from first to ninth place.

Moss went in 12 seconds and is setting the fastest laps of the day. After the turn M went back half a minute. There everyone's heart beats faster and the fastest palms are sweating against everyone. the odds regained its lead and made racing history and finally after so many years of hopes and disappointments a British driver in a British car won a British Grand Prix in a British car as a British driver and that was the first time which had happened and that LED subsequently I think inspiring other designers to believe they could win in British cars was just a fantastic achievement and the Vanwall was the car he did it on to help me understand how innovative the Van Wall was.

I'm going to achieve my lifelong dream and drive one. For this I will need the help of an automobile expert. It has been made to drive like a Van Wall. Now, Patrick, one of the problems with the creeper wall was that it tended to understeer a lot, so what we did was set it to understeer so you could get an idea of ​​what might happen. This happens if you add too much power you will just push them wider and wider so you run out of road and then it will be very expensive and embarrassing the moment you rattle my nerves when cornering the Van Wall would slide to the edge of the track known in racing circles as under steering fire I miss it, I miss it, I am, I'm running out of road, what I was doing there was giving that movement to deliberately make the rear end separate to eradicate the understeer, but I don't think it's something you should drive to Van Wall.

I'll be driving, it's a priceless museum piece, so it was absolutely crucial. I did it well. You'll turn very early, that's too early, yes, but she turned off. but Tiff convinced me that it would be easier if I really put my foot down to be able to be able to hold it so now you go faster you just have to let off the accelerator and lock the opposite yeah no matter how hard I tried I just couldn't get it right , you won't, we're in the field, we're in the field, that's it, that's the field, sorry, but after a couple of hours of practice I finally started to understand it.

Go down the third gear, turn and now start, start, feel like yes, that's it, yes and now take off a little, you've got it, you've got it, you've got it, you've got it, you've got it, go, go, yes, the lesson is over but not exercise. It's not academic, now I'm going to drive a real vehicle. There is another challenge when the Van Wall is delivered to me and this time I will be under the watchful eye of another driver, Mr. Sterling. I'm a little apprehensive, but I'm sure there will be another steep learning curve on this.

It will be a childish fantasy. Vanwall's British cards were boosted by the initial M. Could they repeat their initial success next season? The Van Wall team won the first Formula 1 Constructors' Championship and the first man to congratulate the winner was Brion's proudest father. Sterling was on a high and he too had fallen in love, but some things never change. The mares are on their honeymoon in Holland, but only for 4 days. Sterling has to come back. London will judge the ladies pageant now, can you imagine marrying your wife and saying yes? I know the honeymoon is very important, honey, but I just want to go back and see some women in bikinis and find out who looks back the best.

On the track Sterling had more than just team success in 1958, he wanted that elusive driver's title at the time, drivers felt I was the guy to beat when times go up, see well, what did Moss do to finish with the world? The championship fight between Sterling and Mike Hawthorne to beat Mike was terribly important to me. I mean, if a foreigner beats me I don't feel so bad, but if he's English, I feel much worse. That season he won more races. than any other driver and in Portugal the world title seemed to be in the bag when Hawthorne was disqualified for being pushed, but then Sterling did something incredible.

I walked up and said he was pretty bad, well, I said look, you can't disqualify him for that. He was not in the race, his impeccable sportsmanship gave Hawthorne a single point, all he needed to win the World Championship. Sterling Moss, Grand Prix winner in his British Van Wall, missed out on being the first British champion by one point to cost me a world title, so I think what he wanted most was for respected drivers Leis Evans to be pushed against the wall of the van, to make matters worse, the youngest member of the Vanwall team died in the last race of the season.

Tony Vandervell decided to retire from Formula 1, he never really got over the death of Stuart Le Evans and I think Tony Ville somehow felt partly responsible because Paul Stewart was driving one of his cars after another disappointment. Sterling's attitude towards racing began to change Sterling Moss arguably the best racing driver in the world, let's see how he relaxes with a miniature track rival in this grim fight is his wife Katie Sterling mosque Rockets in sight with Bruce McLaren just behind him instead of the pressure of the best team Sterling decided to drive for his friend Rob Walker, Tyco whiskey, the spirit was a lot if you run hard today and then party tonight.

Master Sterling was very happy driving for Rob Walker, but the problem was that they were not an official car manufacturer, they were using them. a car they had bought from someone else, yet Sterling Moss is leading the way without the support of a manufacturer. Sterling's cars had a tendency to break down. Moss soon took the lead and could well have won, but a transmission problem caused him to retire. Moss came out pretty well. Well, until he had gearbox problems, he was out of luck this season, a faulty clutch left Sterling out of the race. He finished third in the world championship three years in a row, but failing to win a title did not affect his reputation.

I think the audience appreciated it. how artistic he was in the finesse of his driving the way he held the wheel the British public loves a loser every now and then Sterling won against all odds and in Monaco he emerged victorious when he lined up against the Ferraris in Rob Walker is a Lotus British driver, was driving an older chassis, which simply puts into perspective Sterling's extraordinary and remarkable drive on that sunny afternoon at Montala, when on lap 13, MOS takes the lead despite the efforts of the much more powerful Ferrari. . With the entire Ferrari team screaming behind him and around the classic Monaco circuit, he drives the race of his life.

Sterling thundered the red Italian so convincingly that he made Enzo Ferrari take note after a decade of separation. Sterling was invited to Marinello for a meeting. with the old man, he called me and said: would I go see him in mod mode? He met me and said, look, will you drive for me? He told Sterling, you know, tell me what you need in a car and I'll make it for you. build it for yourself and that's how desperate he was to have moss on one of his cars and surprisingly Enzo Ferrari, the same old man agreed that he would sell a car to Rob Walker so that Rob Walker could race in his colors, not even in Ferrari red . and for Sterling to drive that car in the world championship very soon I will be able to drive one of Sterling's cars, but first I am at the Ferrari factory where he finally made peace with Enzo, putting the world title within his reach.

Enzo would have had the best driver in the world at the time in what should have been the best car in the world, yeah what do you think would have resulted from that combination? Well, I think hopefully a world championship or more than one world championship, that didn't happen. Yes, due to the accident, Sterling never drove his Ferrari because in a preseason race he was involved in an accident that ended his career. How it happened remains a mystery. He was passing through a place he would never consider passing under normal conditions and it was miles away. behind him so there's no reason he wouldn't be running towards the last corner of the last laboratory his accident was a national disaster that produced an atmosphere of national anguish no Sterling Moss you know it didn't happen to him you know he was too It's good to crash to this day.

Sterling believes the car was to blame and that the accident would not have occurred in his Ferrari. The only thing I respect Ferrari more than anything else is that no driver that I know of has died due to mechanical failure in a car if the car had arrived in England early enough to have been raced at Goodwood uh, I wouldn't have had my accident and that would have been a wonderful relationship, it could have been perfect, it could have been, but wasn't Sterling rushed to the hospital because the nation feared for his life? Oh, all the racing drivers committed suicide, that was kind of the public attitude and now it was Moss's turn, the whole nation basically stopped waiting to find out what was going to happen.

I'm hoping he continues slowly. I mean, we can't expect miracles to happen. It has to be slow work. Are you going to try to persuade him to stop running after this? I'll ask him yes, I haven't. before, but this time Sterling will definitely wake up from a month-long coma paralyzed on one side of his body, but the nation's relief turned to fear that he will never return to the court, honestly, I have too much pride, I guess so I would like to want to compete and find myself behind if you find your drunken hit. I guess you'll get out of there.

He had suffered severe brain damage that would take years to recover from, but that didn't stop him. The media asks the same question as always: when do you think you will get back on the track? Well, that depends on the doctors. Honestly, he didn't get better for a long time after that and until he was fit it was It's ridiculous for anyone to think he could take a test drive. Any fool could have looked at it and said, "Well, you know why you're doing this." The weight of the British public's expectations pushed Sterling to try and return long before he was ready, just 12 months.

It had happened when he made the most important decision of his life. I got down here and drove the car for about 3/4 of an hour. Slowly, but surely, I realized that the things I needed were gone like second nature. For me originally now it was a conscious effort, a lot of things had changed and I felt that therefore it would not be wise to continue racing if the accident had not happened and the Ferrari had been delivered and you had won maybe in '62 the world championship and maybe next year, how long do you think you would have continued racing in Formula 1?

I was hoping to be able to compete in those well into my 50s, my whole life would have changed. I was forced to give up racing at the age of only 32 and I didn't know what the hell to do, it's a shame because I think my life could have been a lot more rewarding. I wish it too. The more time I spent with Sterling, the more I came to an unlikely conclusion in ending his career because of the accident. In fact, it was a blessing. You know there are people who believe that accident at Goodwood in 1962 actually saved your life, yes, but they don't know the situation, I mean, therefore I assume I'm going to go and have another accident now.

Honestly, if you look back at my entire career, I didn't have any serious accidents that were my fault, why should I have another accident with close odds? The more races you enter, the odds become shorter and shorter and the more experience you get. Get it? Do you think you are indestructible? I think with a Ferrari as my car. I think we would have won a lot. It turned out to be meeting an extraordinary individual. This is a man who said he did what he didn't despite the danger but because of the danger I have resisted making connections and comparisons between my life and my career and yours because this has been about you and not about me but It has been what I have learned about a man of Passion, ambition, feeling and self-confidence that has affected me so much and I will take all of that and put it into my life and my career.

It's a very overused phrase, butyou are an inspiration to me. We do not have the title National Treasure in our country, but if we have received it the first one should be Sir Sterling H. There is only one thing left for me to do 55 years after Van Wall's great victory. I'm on my way to anywhere the paved road still exists. I want to relive the moment an all-British team won a British Grand Prix, the part of Formula 1 as we know it, how often does someone get the chance to drive on the same circuit that Sterling won the Grand Prix on?

British Award in the car he was driving now Sterling and his teammate Tony will guide me through that most memorable race. Somewhere here is a vanwall waiting for me. I'll see it for the first time, touch it for the first time and get on it. Yes, we are fine there. There we are, this is the beautiful beautiful Van Wall, this is beautiful, well, you can touch her if you want. Oh Lord, I'm not sure if you should go in there. I found it very difficult to dry off, yes. that's right, well, it was pretty heavy, pretty heavy, pretty long trip, look at it like a blind date, you never know what you've got until you get there, you know, I mean I'm back in my comfort zone right now because I'm putting on a costume and that's something I'm used to because what I want to do is have fun I'm probably not going to have a day like this again here you have a helmet now take care of that please it's mine this the original that's original it's light these are made for polo, for polo, so don't break it, good luck sir with the Sterling helmet gloves and your blessing.

I was going to follow in his footsteps. I'm ready, yeah, I'm so sorry, stop, stop, don't just jump against the wall of a van and go shopping, you know, it's a pretty complicated thing, yeah, the moment the flag goes up, it's gone. . My second attempt was better and when I entered the first straight I felt the Van Wall start to fly, it was difficult to control. It's not very comfortable, but this beautiful car has one important feature: it goes very, very fast and now it's winding it up as it passes. The rail cars now pass the GU crowd on the embankment under the giant scoreboard for the last time in this race.

Mel Crossing and back with the people rising from their seats in the grand stand ready to cheer an excellent victory and a well-deserved victory. Sterling Moss comes waving to the crowd and Sterling Moss reaches the finish line and the checkered flag falls as Sterling Moss wins the British Grand Prix and, in fact, this year the European Grand Prix so that is the one he has been awarded. awarded to England this year for enjoying it, it feels wonderful, it feels absolutely brilliant, oh Lord this beats Enterprise any day, the euphoria and satisfaction was good, let me tell you I'll try to keep it until The Day I Die if I can, because it feels so good.

Thank you for spending this time with me and giving me some of your hard-earned experience because I consider it one of the great privileges of my life. See it and I can't stop. smiling, perhaps my proudest feeling is that here it is, friends, I give it back to you, it is intact, intact and for this relief, thank you very much. I'm going to live until I die. I'm going to laugh, so Jackie Stewart will be the racing legend tomorrow night. at 8, but tonight, steep drops and broken bridges on the most dangerous roads in the world until he arrives