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SATURDAY, JUNE 5, 1967.
Not least among the week's great headlines was the official announcement that womon Wolf Cub leaders may now wear shorts, with a roquest that "thoy should be utilitarian rather than ornamental."
BRITAIN'S TRACK
What a WHAT sort of a man is Stirling Mos? It is not, motorist leads a queer life. He travels all over the world. He is in Germany one month, Italy, France or Belgium the next, perhaps in Argentine the month after. But what he sees in all these countries in the same thing: the circuits, the pits, the mechanics, the same teammates and the same competitors.
His life is a dedicated one. If he is a wise mun, he will never drink and smoke little.
ayות
not even
des
CHAMPION
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accommoda-"Fangio," he once remarked also, dica out as a star, he must rely have comfortable
Lion for the night. And it was has more guts han almost any People often ask Buring he who, when he was in the whether
he means to go into H. W. M. team during 1950, her man I know, in any walk business when he retires, Hle and 1951, persuaded John Heath, of life. He la tremendously
team-boss, that the determined.
absolutely usually replies, disarmingly and the
deserved a shore of refuses to admit defeat. I thic flat is go very much the right mental approach."
htly evasively: "Well, I try mechanies to build an much goodwill as the spoils. I can...."
Near The Top Surling Moss has often boen
heard to say that he will race for only ten years, He started In 1040 and this would mean
It is dimcult to be near the
TURKY Grand
drivers, Moss is a careful and considerato, tough fast, driver wn tha public highway. For
private
travel, he likes memil oara-"They keep mo up to scratch!" he says he takes a schoolboylab ploomire in mich gadgeta na magnetic ashtrays, which stay put on any metal part. Ha gels a dick, tog, ilke his vary good frion Foter Culling out of potting of a mochariical wall whistle. In the Mercedes-Benz, which was joan- ed to him during his season with the German toam, there wa beautiful up-to-date Gerinc radio set that couti conceivable wavelength. Hanover trod of playing with it, and alowig it oft lo his friends.
Fag For Fag
Stirling Most never touch
and
any
never had touched -- any alcolic drink. But he smokos four or five clearottes a day and often likes to light one after d particularly firing race. He cares enormously for physical finess but after years of racing ands that he no longer noods daily. workouts in the gymnasium. To race overy wook in Grand Prix and Sports Car events with the altendant physical and mental fatiguo-is quile onough exercise for any, man. He is boundingly energetic. Even after a good lunch, he never steps sedately into a taxi, The door is Loid орсть and he literally runa up the step. The sheer life and gu in him makes his company very stimulating.
His temperament is a sorene cee. If some piece of bad luck -like the engine trouble that put him out of the race at Monaco when he might have won it, in 1985-crops up, well, there it is. There is no te moaning about it. Another chance will come.
like attitude Moss differs from In this thoroughly sportsman- some other racing motorists who tend to grouch and grumblo, to sulk or to explode; who will not play, the curds us they fall," In his Berenity Moss is, as he says of Fangio,” a “perfect example" to other motorists.
For it is, of course, never meroly a tough physique, a
But what about the privata. sturdy constitution, that makes a stopping in 1958. when he will top in any professions and at the great sportsman of any kind. t life? Racing every work, spend- be just getting on for thirty. sarne Lima to be genuinely is the mind," says Mocs. That ng nine weeks ceily of the year Is the key to success. Fangio in England, moving rapidly from Thirty-is youth for anybody in modest about your abilities.
country to another but eedentary profession. It is the Though the least bocetful of has such control over his mind one
can successfully never long enough to take any age when a clever young lawyer men, Moss must know that he is or doctor has his feet on the un exceptional driver. But ho fight the danger, and It is a roots. there or even to get to
always threatening ftrat rung of the ladder. But it genuinely modest to the extent danger
suddenly becoming tired. who tell him he is us
B
thal ht
know, the country, its people,
With some ci hle closest colleagues, he
Siirting Moss never refuses to share a consnon language, Moss
He never and his old Number 1 on the meet a journalist.
refuses to answer n question Mercedes team, Fangio, have a
put by a fan. He signs auto- great admiration and affection
without looking for each other; but Moss spraks graph books no Spanish, Fingio no English.
and superior. Once, at boned Le Mane before the famous 24- is the age, also, when an athlete of disagreeing sharply with the racing driver, of the mind's
its language well, Surling Mona The racing-motorial's He is a hour race, he was relaxing in has lost his first youth: I wonder people
has perhaps not much spare time lifo lived in the limelight. Yet his carwon and talking to a if he will retire in 1988! There good as Juan Manuel Frogle, his
fan, who had are any things the World Number 1 in the Mercedes team, Fangio, for Moss,. Is the "per- for a private life. People who In some ways it is a life as much publisher. A
Championship. erown bisone of and a very great hero of his. fect example" of the professional know him well were pidity cute cut off from everyday concerns: come all the way from South as the life of a monk.
Important that cari "He vor detaip, however racing motorist. Moss's friends ho would never marry so long There is Africa, shyly popped his head the most not time or space its such a life round the caravan door. Would tempt a driver to carry on for tough the odds are says like to add that he is so closes to he remained a racing driver.
in his a llute longer than he intended admiringly of Fangle. And the Fenglo for evenings nt the "local" Surling mind autographing a
nearest he ever got to praising approach to motor racing that Whatever he does, he puts, his chats with the neighbours over copy of his recent book. "Cer- to.
enid Stirling, "And
himself was when he once said, he is pretty near to being an- whole heart into making a the garden wall, football pools, tainly,"
His "I think I have narrowed the other
"perfect success of it, as he has into his or discussions about politics.
gap between Fangio and myself." examples" himself.
racing career.
.'
here in the publisher, would you Stirling Moss Ltd
like his mutograph, too?"
A racing motorist's body, Sirling is an easy man to mind and nerves ore 119
Interview. Instrument. He must bothers, he recognises that journalists, Famous though he much about keeping himself like himself, have an interesting. tuned up to the last degree of diffent job to do, and he likes efficiency ag he und mechanies bother about keeping to help them. He takes a real
he car tuned up.
the
Usually, String Moss' is, in or the year at the most, That England for eight or nine weeks is the period when he has to attend to his business affairs and Surr Moss Lid. They are a interest in what a journalist is pretty packed eight or nine No wholly getting pt. He tries to think of dedicated man is really quite an angle that will give an in- goodwill and not the business
weeks Incidentally,*** on: the same sort of person as you trusting story. On the other side, he revelves something like
hand, he does expect a man who
12,000 latters-a year; and these, Interviews him to be reasonably Yet, given that a man like well informed about-and what to acknowledge and sometlines, with secretarial help, he tries Stirling Moss is not really, in
is even more important, to have what makes him tick, the same
Interesting, to a sincere not pretended IT- sort of creature Ds of the
whole motor rest. us, he shows a remark- terest in the able sympathy and friendliness racing business. with the rest of us.
ure or I am.
a word "Liute Young. man's sport
If there Is 'cat" to tiescribe the opposite of a "Blg end" I would use it for Stirling Moss.
For nine years, rince 1948 when people first began to talk respectfully of this boy-wonder. of eighteen, Stirling Moss has been reasonably famous, 11 could all have gone lerribly to
a young man's head. But Stir-
1 they arc answer in detall.
He is a fair and understanding employer, His elder mechanic once said--nothing could be a don't so finer tribute. "People much work for Suriing as with Him." Motor-racing is a very nerve-racking game and there are racing motorists who reduce their mechanics almost to tears, expecially on the eve of a bir rocc. Not so Stirling,
He gels. men to work for him in who:n he has condence, gives them a neral idea of what he wants done, and lots them get on with the job.
Hls confldchce in the The racing game is, perhaps, men who work for him. is repaid
Has he any plans for the fultre? He knows perfectly well that motor meing, like nearly all the more strenuous sports, young man's is essentially profession.
Pangle, sult an ace at forty- four, and the driver who Moss mires most, is an exception,
ling has his feet on the ground. a little like the cinema, There, by them with wholehearted
I give the credit for his lack of
concell to his excellent up- bringing by his father and mother.
good small-part character actors loyalty. may go on quietly for years.
But stars are suddenly born and He goes out of the way, after just he suddenly die.. And when a big race, tired out me he is, to a star of the motor-racing world make sure that his mechanics
ESTIREING MOSS
OwnL
Whole
wearing.
THE END
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