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Agence France-Presse

Motorsport great Stirling Moss has died aged 90 following a long illness, the British driver’s wife announced on Sunday.
“It was one lap too many,” Susie Moss told Britain’s Press Association.
“He just closed his eyes.”
Although Moss never won the Formula One title, he finished runner-up four times and third three times.

British media reported Moss’s passing was the result of a chest infection he caught in Singapore in December 2016 that saw him retire from public life two years later.
There is no suggestion his death was linked to the coronavirus.
In an era where it was common for drivers to race in different disciplines, a 14-year career that started in 1948 saw Moss win 212 of the 529 races he entered including the 1955 Mille Miglia, where he set a new course record in the 1,000 mile event, which took place on public roads in Italy.
In Formula One, Moss won 16 Grand Prix, with his first victory coming in the 1955 British Grand Prix at Liverpool that saw him become the first British winner of the race.

Moss’s action helped spare Hawthorn a six-point penalty, with Hawthorn winning the title by a single point.
His top-level career in motorsport came to an end in 1962 following a crash at the Goodwood track in Sussex, southern England that left Moss in a coma for a month and partially paralysed for six months.
But such was the enduring fame of the debonair driver that, for decades afterwards, the rhetorical phrase “Who do you think you are, Stirling Moss?” was supposedly the standard question all British policemen asked speeding motorists.
“Yes a policeman did once ask me,” Moss told the Daily Telegraph in a 2012 interview.
“But I couldn’t work out if he was taking the mick [joking].”



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‘One too many laps’ – British racing icon Stirling Moss dies at 90

Former Formula One driver Stirling Moss waves to spectators as he sits in his 1955 Ferrari 750 Monza during the Ennstal Classic rally near the Austrian village of Groebming in this July 20, 2013. Photo: Reuters

FILED - 03 July 2011, England, Chichester: Sir Stirling Moss sits in a historic Grand Prix car after his participation in a competition at the Goodwood Festival of Speed in Chichester. Moss died Sunday at the age of 90. Photo: Clive Gee/PA Wire/dpa

FILE PHOTO: Former Formula One world champion Stirling Moss of Britain sits in a Maserati replica Formula One car during the Australian Grand Prix at the Albert Park race track in Melbourne in this April 2, 2006 file photo. REUTERS/Mark Horsburgh/Files/File Photo

FILED - 14 July 2000, England, Sunderland: Motor racing legend Sir Stirling Moss poses after he received an honorary doctorate in technology from Sunderland University, in acknowledgement of his achievements in the sport. Moss died Sunday at the age of 90. Photo: Owen Humphreys/PA Wire/dpa

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Formula One racer was considered the greatest driver never to have to won the F1 championship
‘He just closed his eyes,’ says wife Susie as icon dies following a long illness



Formula One racer was considered the greatest driver ‘never to have to won the F1 championship’ as he dies following a long illness


‘One too many laps’ – British racing icon Stirling Moss dies at 90

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Formula One racer was considered the greatest driver never to have to won the F1 championship

‘He just closed his eyes,’ says wife Susie as icon dies following a long illness