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The Way It Is: Celebrating Moss and Gurney.

Tuesday, 31st July 2007

"I had the great pleasure last weekend to enjoy a sharp and refreshing contrast to the bad odour of so much modern sport."

Stirling and Dan won races aboard many types of cars and are celebrated as two of the most versatile drivers in the hundred-year history of motor racing. Back in the Fifties and Sixties, they were icons of the sport - as big, if not bigger, than Michael Schumacher and Jeff Gordon today. Moss and Gurney were national heroes in their respective home countries, England and the United States, and equally famous around the world because they raced, and won, in a stupefyingly wide range of cars.

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