Sir Moss

Sir Stirling Moss has just been given a special honor to mark 60 years as a member of the BRDC.  He had just turned 19 when he was elected to the club and was the youngest member to that time.  It struck me that he has been part of my landscape for most of my sentient life and still is, yet his top-line racing career ended in 1962, before the Beatles ever had a hit. It was even before I worked in the same joint as Ringo.

Queen Victoria reigned for 64 years, so people lived and died as Victorians, in retrospect. But she was merely a figurehead by accident of birth. Victoria never won the Mille Miglia!