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Stirling Moss – The Definite Biography Vol1

Sir Stirling Moss is one of the greatest sportsmen of all time, he was successful in all forms of motor sport but most particularly in Grand Prix racing. There have been many books written about Sir Stirling Moss’ life and achievements,  but non like this one.

This, is no coffee table flick book, but a serious 670 page biography. Two years’ research went into this first volume of two, and it digs far deeper than any book previously published. Detailing every inch of Moss’s glamorous, jet-setting lifestyle in the ’50s. Debunking myths, correcting many mistakes and adding much new information, including previously unrecorded races, this is probably the most deeply researched motoring biography ever written.

This book, though, is no dry account. It is spiced with humour, tragedy and period flavour with liberal doses of quotes from Moss himself and his contemporaries, many of whom Porter has interviewed over the years.

The story is an extraordinary one. Starting out as a youth with precocious ability, young Stirling quickly caught the eye when racing the little 500cc racing cars invented just after the war. He soon ventured abroad where they laughed at his little racing car – until he beat them. He became the British Champion at 21 when most drivers were in their 30s, 40s or even 50s. He patriotically insisted on driving British cars and the gallant crusader took on, often matched and sometimes beat the foreign cars with their more powerful engines. Admirable patriotism nearly ruined his promising career until he was forced to compromise such principles and quickly revived his career and showed he could beat the very best at the highest levels. In the final year covered by Vol 1, he won his first Grand Prix and such sports car classics as the Tourist Trophy, the Targa Florio and the Mille Miglia, all amazing achievements but that in the Mille Miglia has gone down as one of the greatest feats in all sport.

Here, in fascinating, authoritative detail is the ultimate work on arguably the greatest all-round driver the world has yet known, a book worthy of a great man.

Author: Philip Porter
Foreword by Murray Walker
Published by: Porter Press International
Publication date: September 2016
Price: £35, ISBN: 978-1-907085-33-8

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