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Two utter giants of the motor racing world. Two giants of the automotive world. Neither of these gentlemen pioneers should ever be forgotten. Mt two motor racing heroes.
This was so well done. For a little over half an hour you got so much content in. I watched it all without stopping and had a tear in my eye at the end. Utterly marvellous modest men who set the best example to everyone. Thanks for making this wonderful documentary.
Many of these wonderful men got their start in F3, 600 pound min weight, Norton Manx or JAP speedway 500cc motorcycle engines and transmissions. Push starts, Castrol smell,etc.
My first car was an 8 year old 1958 Jaguar XK-150, the first production car to have four wheel disc brakes. No other production car, IIRC, had them when I bougt may old Jag. Dunlop disc brakes and Girling brake fluid.
Even the sound if the doors closing had a sound of custom build. Ya Toyota makes a similar sound. Jaguar set the standard 40 years earlier. On Forza Motorsport (One) I led out the fastest Race and 1st 2nd 3rd and me in 5th uo against a gigantic Army of Enzo's. Ya needed a good team mate in that online game. Sone if that Jaguar Magic made in to the that Jaguar XJ220. Anyways that nay have been the greatest online race ever.
Fair dinkum, so many legends in this video. They were there for some of the greatest times and car breakthroughs in history. To hear anything they have to say, just breathtaking. Just.................. amazing.
I still remember watching the early television in black and white when a child in the fifties and remember the commentator talking about ‘disc brakes.’
Somehow I had missed this until now, and it’s simply wonderful.. I can’t believe how young Martin is and it’s marvellous to see Stirling once more… and all the greats.. I agree F1 needs an element of danger today it’s just a dying concept… I occasionally watch an entire race without fast forwarding through it.
I met Sir Stirling moss in 2011 @ the NEC And I met two other heroes whom I no longer call heroes, P. F. Chilli and Carl Fogarty who was late. That's Fangios C-Type Murray Walker, and Nigel Mansell came literally up the road from my childhood home, and Mansell worked round the corner at Lucas Aerospace too
My first car in 1961 was a Morris 8 Tourer, could do 70 with a following wind, which was more exciting than doing 130 in my Jaguar XKR now, (Autobahn), mainly because stopping in my Morris was uncertain 😧. Those were the days of legends like Moss Hawthorn Clark etc. My question is why was it that disc brakes were such an innovation when pedal bike brakes had used virtually the same technology for nearly 100 years ?
I never got to see Stirling Moss race but I did see Jackie Stewart race in the Can Am series. His Lola wasn't the best car in the race but with him driving it was the class of the field as long as it didn't break. He was head and shoulders better than the other drivers. He was so smooth with his car control, it was so obvious compared to the other drivers.
No other country in the world made the most beautiful and fearsome sounding engines like the English. Sports cars and our motorcycles are easily in their exhaust sound recognised as being an English engine roaring along. Think also of our aero engines, the RR merlin, etc.
Some years ago, if I remember correctly, there was an article about a pair of journalists who visited Mr. Moss at his home for an interview. Afterward he drove them to town, playing music on his car's cassette player. Upon entering an exit ramp with a long curve at a high rate of speed, he tapped the brake, putting the automobile into a four-wheel drift while he casually popped out the cassete and replaced it with another while maintaining the perfectly controlled drift, using one hand and the throttle. Needless to say, the journalists were bug-eyed but impressed.
This an excellent video, very good, high quality video, audio, lighting, and content. I think it's awesome that you got this footage before we lost the two of them, both living legends at time of recording. I didn't realize that Jaguar, and Dunlop were the ones responsible for the development of the automotive application of disc brakes, and I've been into the auto racing scene my entire life.
This pales in comparison to what he did in 1955 with a smaller engine and drum brakes. Of course, those drums were the last gasp of dying technology. Their size and inboard location made them utterly useless for further development. The best driver to never win a F1 championship.
I had the enormous privilege to meet Stirling and Susie Moss at their London home a few years ago. They were gracious hosts and fun company, regaling us with fun moments from Stirling’s career but especially tales of his ‘55 Mille Miglia drive to victory with Denis Jenkinson.
I remember him being asked, who was tougher, his era or the current F1 era drivers. Why his era of course, because drivers could more easily die. I'm sure the ones that did, weren't available for comment. And if given the chance to live, I doubt any one of them would have said, "No, I'm tough, I will show it by dying over something that is nothing but entertainment and has no impact on the world". He was a clown.
