The winner of 16 grands prix and a four-time world championship runner-up, Sir Stirling is widely regarded as the greatest Formula 1 driver never to win a title.
But for his sense of sportsmanship, Sir Stirling could have been Britain's first world champion in 1958 instead of Mike Hawthorn.
"I felt that it was quite wrong and I went and gave evidence on Mike's behalf and said no way should he be disqualified," Sir Stirling, who won four races that year to Hawthorn's one, told Reuters in an interview at his home in 2009.Sir Stirling never came as close again but had no regrets. He kept two buckled and bent steering wheels hanging on the wall of his central London home as mementos of major"prangs", one labelled"Spa 1960" and the other"Goodwood 1962".
@johnnyherbertf1: Sad sad news that legend Sir Stirling Moss has passed. World Champion in all our eyes..
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