Moss is the family name of a brother and sister who became leading British automobile racing drivers.
Stirling Moss
(1929-2020) became one of the world’s most skilled Formula One racing drivers. He failed to win the world championship but won many important individual races, including the Mille Miglia, the Targa Florio, and the Grand Prix races of Argentina, Italy, Monaco, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom.
Moss was born on Sept. 17, 1929, in London. He raced from 1948 until his retirement after a serious crash in 1962. He then appeared in numerous exhibition races until he retired from all racing in 2011. Moss wrote several books about auto racing, including the autobiographical All About My Life (1963) and My Cars, My Career (1987). He narrated the British animated children’s television program “Roary the Racing Car” from 2007 to 2010. Moss was knighted in 2000, the first person to be so honored for his achievements in automobile racing. He died on April 12, 2020.
Pat Moss Carlsson
(1934-2008) became an outstanding rally driver. She was also well known as a show jumper. She won the ladies’ prize in the Monte Carlo Rally five times between 1959 and 1965.
Pat Moss was born in Thames Ditton, Surrey, on Dec. 27, 1934. She married the Swedish rally driver Erik Carlsson in 1963. She died on Oct. 14, 2008.
