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Racing legend Moss was much more than a Grand Prix racing star

Former English 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 file photo. [REUTERS/Leonhard Foeger/File Photo]

Widely regarded as the greatest driver never to win the Formula One drivers’ world championship, Briton Stirling Moss, who died yesterday aged 90, was synonymous with the dangers and dramas of all forms of motor racing in the 1950s and early 1960s.

A naturally gifted driver, with a great flair for speed and an instinctive feel for racing, it was his misfortune that the best years of his career coincided with those of the great Argentine Juan Manuel Fangio, who won the title five times.

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