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Written by Jason Barlow
Sir Stirling Moss has been battling a chest infection since holidaying in Singapore in late 2016. The news that he has finally decided to retire from public life, aged 88, isn"t wholly surprising. Lord knows, if anyone has earned a bit of respite and the close attentions of family in his twilight years, it"s Stirling. That said, I suspect it"s something he"s agreed to reluctantly: there have been times during his remarkable life and career that he"s appeared almost superhuman both in a racing car and outside it. Such is his status that he"s more in demand than ever. Imagine trying to tell Stirling Moss that, yes, it really is time to slow down Plenty might reasonably wonder why the man still matters quite so much. Only because he"s probably the greatest British racing driver of them all or the embodiment of what a great racer should be an opinion made all the more trenchant given that Moss never actually won the Formula One world championship.
Date written: 22 Jan 2018
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Sir Stirling Moss has been battling a chest infection since holidaying in Singapore in late 2016. The news that he has finally decided to retire from public life, aged 88, isn"t wholly surprising. Lord knows, if anyone has earned a bit of respite and the close attentions of family in his twilight years, it"s Stirling. That said, I suspect it"s something he"s agreed to reluctantly: there have been times during his remarkable life and career that he"s appeared almost superhuman both in a racing car and outside it. Such is his status that he"s more in demand than ever. Imagine trying to tell Stirling Moss that, yes, it really is time to slow down Plenty might reasonably wonder why the man still matters quite so much. Only because he"s probably the greatest British racing driver of them all or the embodiment of what a great racer should be an opinion made all the more trenchant given that Moss never actually won the Formula One world championship.
Date written: 22 Jan 2018
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 10642