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Stirling Moss, Swiss GP, klemcoll, HWM

His First World Championship Race

Here is a young Stirling Moss about to go out to practice in his first World Championship F1 race, the Swiss Grand Prix which took place on the dangerous Bremgarten circuit at Berne on May 27, 1951. Moss is in one of John Heath’s F2 HWMs which were powered by the two liter four cylinder […]

Smoking Tires

  Some of the early sports car “rides” for Stirling Moss were with Jaguars, such as this factory-owned XK120 shown here during the afternoon one-hour Production Sports Car Race at the BRDC International Trophy Meeting at Silverstone on May 5, 1951. This was the first win of the year for Moss and he had the […]