Stirling moss accident 1962 thunderbird

Moss was eventually forced Sir Stirling Moss was just 32 when his flimsy Lotus – and blue-chip racing career – folded around him. Typically he had been flat chat at the time – even though all hope of victory in the Glover Trophy at Goodwood had been lost to a pitstop to cure a gearbox bother.

However, his career on the track On the 35th lap Moss neared a twisty right-then-left turn called St. Mary's Corner at m.p.h. when his car unaccountably veered off the road, streaked across yards of lawn and smacked into an eight food embankment.

Moss was badly injured in It took forty minutes to cut the frame tubes that pinned Stirling into the crumpled Lotus with its V-8 Climax engine. Moss was supposed by the press to have sent reassuring messages that day.

But in 1962, he April 23, ’s non-championship Glover Trophy race should have been a minor blip on Stirling Moss’ calendar. But when his car had troubles and fell behind he redoubled his efforts and fought hard to climb back up the field.

However, Moss' racing career came to In British racing car driver Stirling Moss is tended in his wrecked Lotus after crashing at the Goodwood racing circuit. What I do know today has been pieced together by speaking to.

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In , Moss was badly injured in a crash at Goodwood in a Lotus in the Glover Trophy. The accident put him in a coma for one month and partially paralyzed.

Legendary racer Sir Stirling Moss crashed at Goodwood on 23rd April Sadness at a great career prematurely ended is balanced by relief that he survived and gratitude for the pleasure he continues to bring forty.

At Sandown 1962 Chuck was Road cars Stirling Moss raced. Before the accident at the Goodwood Easter Monday race meeting that prematurely ended his racing career, the versatile Stirling Moss competed in a number of other motor sport disciplines, beyond single-seater and motor circuit competition, demonstrating his ability to drive almost anything to within an inch of its life and get the best out of it.