Sir Stirling Moss and this Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR Remain Unbeaten

[RALPHIE]

[video=youtube;fJsdw-pof1o]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJsdw-pof1o&list=PLMEtpLTOfYiyZ9SlDTdZApYXWypyQLndI[/video]

and , from the archives (US Grand Prix @ Riverside, 1960) -

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Can you imagine a driver in F1 today checking his own tire pressures?
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Me in red shirt.
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[Sinovac]

Thanks for that great video.

 

[GTJack]

Great video and pics. Denis Jenkinson was his "navigator" and as a motor journalist wrote a great article on the prep and race. Here is a link to the article and more. Pretty amazing!! http://www.foodman123.com/moss.htm#para1

 

[RALPHIE]

I met Denis back in 1962, when he was considered to be the best of the automotive jounalists, by all the other international journalists and the public. Here's a picture of him at the Nürburgring in 1962 -

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(sorry about the slide deterioration)

 

[TO AWSUM]

Ralphie you need to wear more red shirts. It makes you look younger.