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Originally posted by D-Type
In 1958 everybody refers to Stirling Moss winning three World Championship GP’s to Mike Hawthorn’s one but overlook the fact that Brooks also had three wins.
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Just a small point, Stirling actually won four championship counting GPs in 1958 - 3 for Vanwall, and the first for Cooper in Argentina.
Agree with your sentiments, though. Brooks was known to be very smooth and was superb at circuits like the old Spa and Nurburgring (he won the GPs there in '58). I always reckon that someone who was quick on tracks like that must have been great.
He did have grit too. I seem to recall hearing that he came second to Fangio at Monaco in '57, despite having a gear-lever that was making mincemeat of his hand.
One of those strange ironies is that Moss and Brooks (and maybe even Collins) were probably better than Hawthorn and yet it was Mike that became the first British World Champion!