Sterling moss biography
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The greatest driver never to win the Formula One World Championship
Sir Stirling Craufurd Moss, OBE (born 17 September 1929) is a British former Formula One racing driver.
An inductee into the International Motorsports Hall of Fame, he achieved success in several categories of competition and has been described as “the greatest driver never to win the World Championship”.
Sterling moss biography
Moss finished as championship runner-up on four occasions and third a further three times between 1955 and 1961.
Early life
Moss was born in London, the son of Aileen (née Craufurd) and Alfred Moss, a dentist of Bray, Berkshire, where Stirling was raised at Long White Cloud house on the right bank of the River Thames.
Alfred was an amateur racing driver who had been placed 16th at the 1924 Indianapolis 500. Stirling was a gifted horse rider as was his younger sister, Pat Moss, who became a successful rally driver and married Erik Carlsson.
“Better to lose honourably in a British car