Moss’ perfect drift

Monza 1956: In a perfectly controlled drift from 6th on the starting grid, Stirling Moss takes his Maserati 250F to the checkered flag at Monza, to win the 1956 Italian Formula One Grand Prix (picture above).

Sir Stirling Moss (1929-2020) was an extraordinarily talented driver. The Brit raced from 1948 to 1962, winning 212 of the 529 races he entered, including 16 Formula One Grand Prix and countless endurance races.

Moss competed in as many as 62 races in a single year, in a time when racing was so dangerous, and drove 84 (!) different makes of car over the course of his career.

In 1955, Moss won (with Denis Jenkinson) Italy’s thousand-mile Mille Miglia (1600 km!) in just ten hours and seven minutes, an achievement journalist Doug Nye described as the “most iconic single day’s drive in motor racing history” (picture below).