AND THE INSIDE STORIES BEHIND THEIR TRIUMPHS...
Continued From Pago G)
Moss was dressed for racing: thin pants, vest, trousers, and shoes with soles
dao AB tisque.
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It was far too hof to wear more.
He buckled bis helmet, pulled on his gloves, and the Cooper proceeded to travel taster than any olhor....except for Fanglo's Maserati,
Those practice days are impur- lant.
Almost na vital as the race. The loster line driver can put up, the nearer he gels to the front of the starting geld.
In theory, the first day is for rememberance more
tho
The
way
one
to
ETERNOS - AVery conver until, towards the end the surface is polished clony black.
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 9, 1958.
more rubber from the tyres mirror and marked past, subber fringes.
and twos the cars loomed in with wheels frayed with ragged, cockpits obeying orders to catch
Moss. Boon Mole was last.
Moss, his caution, his fear of But unless he crashed. It was For nearly a Inpho drove disaster obliterated by exulta- too late. painfully slowly. Filled with lon, accelerated, Behind him frustration and tormented rage, the Ferraris of Hawthorn and he cursed loudly and bitterly. Musso were harrying But he Viciously ho gave the fever was half a minute in front with slam with his free hand. It was 50 miles to go. A last despairing pad brutal gesture,
crazy win
and stay alive
bone and ibe landmarks, for and he was forced to discover watching out for hazards, and its tricks and its capabilities. brunding la
those
the nt
But if Moss had brooded before, as soon as he esime
a new Into the pila he had
and even
deeper reason for anxiety,
vne's mind
Through that afterCON treacherous patches of grit, and
that spectators chippings in the corners
were delighted can be as dangerous as ball Fangio's throwing down of the bearings under spinning wheels. gauntlet, They were fascinated by the way Moms seemed to have accepted the challenge..
In
the Argentinian Grand Prix only the second practice day speeds count for soring out the starting positions.
But on this first day two men were driving with a vervo worthy of the race Itself.
First was Fangio, the local celebrity, The crowd had come to see a display, and it Fangio's happy job to them une.
WIG show
If they could have been in the cockpit with Moss and have heard his sulphurous language they would have thought again. Apart from the tyre problem, he had already discovered a critical weakness in the car. The gear box was giving a lot of immuble.
Warning
At the end of that first alter- neon Moss was sitting on the
the
Carefully concentrating a on what she was suing, was Hstening too to each areak of the yacht.
Every one of them echoed his A tyre technician was wailing thoughts....tyres, tyres, tyres. for him. Urgently he caught he saw beyond the quiet waves Moss's sleeve and whispered: to the scorched, rough surface of "Look, if you go at the same the racing circuit he had just speed in the race as you have left. in practice, your tyres won't last half the race."
Moss stared mutely a
the
gay crowds streaming pest on their way home to dream Sunday and the happy promise
of
of battle between their hero and his rival with the funny little green car.
It was very hot. Even with- out a problem it was going to be
Second WAS Stirling Mons. With a 'grance he set off to do lisewise. Not because he wunted pit counter strugging with him hard to get to sleep that night,
self not to interfere with work the mechanics were doing unlike many drivers, he likes to be helpful when up cane tubby, slocky Fangio with a smile all over his face.
to dazzle the Argentinians, but was driving a strange, car,
he
JACOBY ON BRIDGE
Ile told Muss they had both broken the lap record. He also wanted to know all about the Cooper. They spoke in Italian -helr one common language.
Wrong Lead Makes me afterwards, he would have
Story
By OSWALD JACOBY
I here would no alient F West had opened a diamond
come stage or other in the play East would obtain the lead and play the queen of clubs where- upon it would have been car- tains for South.
Fortunately for South, West loolted over bis hand carefully and led a trump. Now South pulled trumps with secand trump lead and played the ace and jack of hearts from dummy. East played low and South dis- corded a club instead of ruffing.
Now West shifted to a dia- mond, but it was too late. South went right up with dummy's ace end led the ten of hearts. Easi ducked quickly; there
was 110
"I think," Stirling Mass fold given a lot to have had a drive In my car."
The next day was just the same. Fanglo and Murs were 10e two leaders on the starting grid.
Then a friend of Moss's en Anglo-Argentinian called Jackie Green, came up to him and said: "Stirling, I have a yacht. Come out on the river tonight. It will be cooler and you will sleep better."
It was a wonderful evening,
And he schemed. ⚫
Moss watched the waves from the yacht and worked periour equation.
out
P
Eraso
Obviously the more those is, the leas the friction Friction wears out Lyros,
Wilfully and calculatedly ho would seek the oiliest parta of the track and drive on them as much sa hʊ'could. ̧ For the first Ume since he had arrived in the Argentine, Moss relaxed,
He was still in the same mood when he climbed into his Cooper on the starting grid the next morning.
Latay
Hickets,
queues.
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And Stirling Moss, in his Hit: greco car dazzled by the sun. watched them as he tugged of his atring gloves.
The response' was incredible, The lever slid rojuly into posi- ston and for the rest of the race No pear bor has ever been so silkily, exquisitely thoath as inat Coopar's. •
But if Mous had fiad problems before, now he was besieged by them. He had lost so much time he had to riak his tyres bven more catch up.
Nursed
Aй 110 nagging
Now it was obvious to the crowds, scrambling to their feet, that hero was a race with deathly promise,
In the Cooper cockpit Moss time there was that fear about this tyres, find fought and beaten penic. He even trial using the grass Now he was already calcinating find how much he could slow down verge of the corners catler going for his outside wat still win.. wheels.
to
Second by cautious second he,
...And then came that little slowed his car.. grey blur on kis' tyres.
Thirty miles to go and his lend was down to 17 seconds. And 17 neconds is very easy to lose à a Grand Prix.
“It didn't matter" he told me forwards. "A win by an inch is as good as à win by a mile."
Tivo polni OCDXCT seconds ahead of those screaming red
One hundred and forty miles cars ffoss, put the chequered en hour, and the ribbon of flag.
He had also driven the race Canwas was showing on every
all
16
wheel Now Moss sought the faster than it had ever of on the track with the eager done in the part.
Sweaty
been
crowds don't book don't form orderly When the senation, tension. thunder of
Seeking out the thickening A Grand Pulx is in the air they swarm in on the truck, Mas started
new of a Texan prospecior. the nurse his car to the front,
Headlong ho approached the Bile violent thousanda on to
quarrel, Moss circuit edges. They
Nursing is an odd wond to use comers, braked, changed down, tiny struggle, drink and wait poised to a driver pressing hir
A little mani, grimy, sweaty, car at and started to alkio. For sicken- for the drama.
140 miles an hour,
but that fa ing seconds the Cooper's steering the Latins carries him one their became frighteningly light. Moss shoulders, a laurel wreath round what he was doing.
and the car together" wrestled his neck, a trophy, spilling Sharp-eyed, gentle-handed, he for that last snatch of adhesion champagne, in his bands.
that saved them both from That right, was no carefully solicitous da family nanny, Coolly, without being catapulted to disaster. And restaurant, haste, without vioïence he drove, there were so many corners süll
to be fought. Hawthorn, in a Ferrari, was deading, Bohra was second and chaird Already one Fangio Maserati had spun off the track. Soon Fangio was second and closing on Hawthorn, but on the 17th lap Moss hed carefully crept up behind Behta. Then Fanglo swept in trand
He had a tyre problem and the gearbox was weak. Well, he would drive slowly into the slow much time, as fast as he could corners where he wouldn't lose and he
on the quick cumers, would see what happened.
Satisfied
That was all very well, but Mogs was far from satised.
His ATELDETA
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farer
Fear.....
A Klaxon blared. One minute to go. Engines dipped the silence. The cars rocked gently with carefully controlled power.
an edge, or two, their drivers
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Tept forward an inch or two.
Mesa looked hastily round him. He had a sudden fear that, in the controlled chaos at the stark, his car could be so casily crushed.
He camissed the thought, Katie's bank back into this sent and
and watched the starter's flag. The flag drooped,
whispers became rarer as a much more daring plan filled his mind,
The crowd walchied the Now a racing driver hates bil kaleidoscope of gaudy colour on the track as violently as the disappearing to the distance, family motorist detests an ey road.
Moss started off well. He It is the stuff of which deadly settled down in fourth place. akids and collisions are made."
For Katie was another snatched honeymoon hour,
Аза together they stood, Close
race progTESSCO embraced by the genite night, and more of, and more drowally watching the tranquil purple water.
At least Kotle was happily she drowsy. Softly and idly murmured to her husband.
ZANIES
more
and
Then suddenly the lever jammed in third gear. In ones
Moas passed Behra. H: overlook Hawthorn.
Neither driver was particularly per- were waiting turbed. They
for him to stop for a tyre change.
·
to
To the drivers tua path would lead igevitably suicide. Moss knew it best of ail mes
д quiet Mo oto largo steak. .und drank his inevit able glass of milk,
Was
"There was another cheque to pay into his bank, another enormous silver cup to be car
ฟร rled home. Ampther race
worst over.... the
yet....to. endless Battle of In the pits managers raged wards that
champion. And Blondly, before the race, they becoming the had written of Moss. When he Fanglo had been bepten,
Moss, balding care- Stiribg did come in to change tyres, they had reasoned, the delay fully dressed, twinkding with so real ho would gold ornament, became "intense. would be maller no more,
His arms waved over the table,
Ho hla cyas sharpened. telling the Argentinians how Sputh American polities should But as lap after lap sped by be managed.
And his 22-year-old wife, still Fangio was racing through the their confidence changed to
the champion unce doubt. And from doubt to anger, fratt from the terrors of the sunshine,
more. The crowd was delirious Their calculations were wildly afternoon, Moss, behind him, his careful for from the maric. Although attention. hand knotted with muscle, Moss's threadboro tyres were the oli clear to see, he just would not caressed his cor over aliciss
But when drama suddenly Fit signals hung out in the The race that made came, it was Fanglo, with 45 noisy ar. Fangio, Hawthom,
history. laps still to go, who had to stop Musso crouched lower in their
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