Silvio Moser

After racing Alfas in the early sixties this pleasant little Swiss driver switched to junior single-seaters in 1964 with huge success, both in European F3 and in the Temporada series, winning all four rounds in his Formula Junior Lotus.

Moser then moved into Formula 2 with his own team, but continued to race in F3 – where he was more competitive, winning races at Syracuse, La Chatre and Rosario. He then went into Formula 1 full-time, initially with an elderly Cooper-ATS, then with the ex-Ligier Brabham, scoring a fifth place at Zandvoort in 1968, and a sixth at Watkins Glen in 1969.

Silvio then embarked on a disastrous 1970 season with the hopeless Bellasi-Ford, which scuppered his immediate Grand Prix expectations. Returning to Formula 2, he drove a Brabham in 1971 and ’72, taking second at the Monza Lottery GP, but had a thin time of it with a Surtees in 1973. Moser was planning to race a March in Formula 2 in 1974, as well as making a return to Grands Prix with a Bretscher Brabham, but he crashed a Lola sports car heavily in the Monza 1000 Km, sustaining serious internal and head injuries. Despite several operations, poor Moser died in hospital the following month without regaining consciousness.