As a boy, my racing hero was Stirling Moss. I remember watching him on television, in 1959, racing a front-engined BRM, and that was the inspirational moment, the time I became hooked on motor racing—an epiphany. Stirling was taking on Jack Brabham in the Cooper. Cooper had just appeared on the scene with radical new thinking of having the engine in the rear. While it was an important step for the future of motor racing itself, it was Stirling in…
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