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Picture of the Week - Stirling Moss in the 1953 Reims 12-Hours

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14/12/2004

Stirling Moss is considered to be the best driver never to have won the World Championship.

From his earliest successes in F500 cars to his brave 1961 Grand Prix wins at Monaco and the Nurburgring Moss was always the driver others measured themselves by.

In sports car racing his genius was as the rabbit in long distance events, attempting to run the other teams to the breaking point. Everyone knows of his dramatic win in the 1955 Mille Miglia with Denis Jenkinson in a Mercedes Benz 300SLR but few realize the number of other sports car races Moss won.

In this photograph he is seen in a C-Type Jaguar at the apex of the cobblestone hairpin at Reims, France on his way to winning the 12 Hour Race in 1953 teamed with Peter Whitehead.

We can see his "Farina-like" driving style, head back, arms outstretched, relaxed, just as it should be done.

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