After cheating death so many times during his career, he died peacefully in his sleep.
His wife said:
He just did one lap too many & simply closed his eyes.
That's a lovely way to put it.
Just checked the archives and in June 2010, Chevy Rick and I visited the Haynes Museum. Part of what I wrote at the time was:
"Another exhibit - again small but very detailed - was a section dedicated to Stirling Moss and it listed every car he had raced. They also provided a small model of each car detailing when he raced it and quotes from him saying what he thought of each vehicle. Again, I could have spent ages just looking at that exhibit."
Sir Stirling Craufurd Moss, OBE, a great character whose contribution to the world of motor racing is without question.
