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Old 28 Jan 2002, 06:19 (Ref:205664)   #8
Ray Bell
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Ray Bell should be qualifying in the top 10 on the grid
Re: Stirling Moss

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Originally posted by marcus
....but yet why did this man who never won a title held in such high regard in especially in England???
In part because he fought that charge about changing lanes in the Mersey tunnel... but it was an era when the poms were looking for heroes, too.

He was, as he and Purdy point out in All But My Life, "the knight going out to defeat the infidel, the one who would give all, perhaps come back with the trophy, perhaps with broken limbs and bleeding nose."

Mossy had his flaws and failings, but he was human and admitted it. He drove anything he drove to its ultimate, and don't forget he was a works rally driver too... won, I think, three Coupes des Alpes in a row.
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