April 19th, 2020 at 12:31 AM
(April 12th, 2020 at 11:28 PM)Guardian Wrote:Quote:He famously lost out on the F1 title in 1958 to compatriot Mike Hawthorn after vouching for his rival and preventing him being disqualified when he was accused of reversing on track in the late-season Portuguese Grand Prix.
Now that's impressive.
Indeed it is. It's absolutely impossible to imagine Lewis Hamilton and Sebastian Vettel doing something like that these days!
(Of course, that's not a criticism of Hamilton and Vettel as people: it's just that the entire culture of the sport has changed beyond recognition since Moss's day - for better or worse)
