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Last week Stirling Moss and California's Dan Gurney drove a Maserati to victory in a grueling, 620-mile sports car race in Nurburgring, Germany. This week, as Europe's Grand Prix season opens at Monaco, Stirling Moss is as always the driver to beat. But despite his great success, Moss is a restless, unhappy man-for in his twelve years of professional driving, he has never yet won motor racing's highest honor, the Grand Prix driving championship...
...greatest handicap, argues the London Daily Express's Basil Cardew, forcing him "to exact more from a car, because he makes it go faster, than possibly anyone we have known in the past." His demands have resulted in a long history of mechanical breakdowns and kept the Grand Prix championship beyond his reach. But Stirling Moss insists he can drive no other...
...took a room at the Golden Dove, and so did Braque, Bonnard, Léger and Utrillo. There was no end to the procession of great names who ate there. The artists seemed to like Roux, for they showered him with paintings, either as gifts or for a modest prix d'ami. As the years passed, Roux's collection grew and grew...
...national clubs are doing their best to make the sport a little less hair-raising. California's Go Kart Club of America and Florida's Grand Prix Kart Club of America have both set up rigorous standards for their races. The Go Kart Club does not allow anyone under 16 to race, claims it has never had a fatal accident in an authorized race. So does the Grand Prix, though its rules permit six-year-olds to race karts held down to 30 m.p.h. and twelve-year-olds to compete in the karts that will turn 85 m.p.h...
Britain's ace Grand Prix driver, Stirling Moss, 30, fined $140, his British driver's license lifted for a year because he collided head-on with a truck while passing another car on a British road, complained: "If my name hadn't been Stirling Moss, the police wouldn't have brought the case...