Hamilton leads tributes to F1 legend Moss
Lewis Hamilton has paid tribu🐠🦋te to Sir Stirling Moss who has died at the age of 90 and says he will “celebrate his incredible life and the great man he was” after striking a friendship with the racing legend.
With Moss becoming one of the firs🌟t British F1 grea🐻ts during the 1950s, Hamilton is the latest in a line of drivers inspired by the first home winner of the British ♏Grand Prix back in 1955 at Aintree.
Lewis Hamiltonꦿ has paid tribute to Sir Stirling Moss who has died at the age of 90 and says he will “celebrate his incredible life and the great man he was” after striking a friendship with the racing legend.
With Moss becoming one of the first British﷽ 𝓡F1 greats during the 1950s, Hamilton is the latest in a line of drivers inspired by the first home winner of t൩he British Grand Prix back in 1955 at Aintree.
Through their Mercedes con🏅nections, Hamilton and Moss came together for a nꦬumber of events including when the pair drove some of Moss’s F1 cars in 2013 at Silverstone and in 2015 at Monza.
Since then Hamilton and Moss became frie❀nds representing opposite ends of the historical timeline of the best British F1 drivers. The reigning F1 world champion had duly paid tribute to Moss having shared a love for racing despite coming from the contrasting ba𝕴ckgrounds.
🉐“Today we say goodbye to Sir Stirling Moss, the racing legend. I think it’s important that we celebrate his incredible life and the great man he was,” Hamilton wrote on his Instagram account. “Saying goodbye is never easy and can be sad but he will always be here, in our memories and will always be such a huge part of British Motorsports Heritage.
“I certainly will miss our conversations. To be honest, it was such an unusual pairing, our friendship. Two people from massively different times and backgrounds but we clic༒ked and ultimately found that the love for racing we both shared made us comrades.
“I am truly grateful to have had these special moments with🥂 him. Sending my prayers and thoughts to his family. May he rest in peace.”
Since Moss’s passing was coꦚnfirmed by his family this mor🌺ning, the sporting world has d🐻elivered tributes to the four-time F1 world championship runner-up who is remembered for his sportsmanship and supreme talents as he continued to com🦋pete in historic races up until he was 81.
“Sir Stirling was a larger-than-life figure in our sport and one of the survivors of an age when motor racing was about danger, brave♏ry and camaraderie,” Toto Wolff, Mer🦋cedes team principal, said.
“But most of all, Stirling’s career was characterised by an i♓mpeccable sportsmanship and in this he truly set himself apart. He was a great figure in the history of Mercedes, both as a Grand Prix driver and the winner of the 1955 Mille Miglia.
“It is no♉ exaggeration to say that we will never see his like again. Our deepest condolences go to his wife Lady Susie, his family and his friends. Godspeed to a true racer.”
“RIP Sir Stirling. A true legend and a wonderfu𝄹l person,” Ferrari added on Twitter. “To Scuderia Fe💎rrari, he was a formidable opponent. Our thoughts are with his wife, family and friends.”
While Moss is considered the greatest driver to never win an F1 wor🎉ld title, he did produce a remarkable career record of 212 wins in all disciplines and went on to be knighted in 2000.
