LEGEND MOSS TO BE CELEBRATED AT 2021’S GOODWOOD EVENTS
This year’s Goodwood Festival of Speed, Revival and Members’ Meeting will commemorate life and career of late Sir Stirling Moss with races, parade and cars
The legendary Sir Stirling Moss will be commemorated at Goodwood’s headline motorsport events in 2021.
Moss, who passed away last year, was one of the founding Festival of Speed patrons and a regular Goodwood event attendee, coming to be known as ‘Mr Goodwood’. Moss took part in, and won, his very first motor race on the Goodwood circuit on September 18 1948, a day after his 19th birthday, and contested 56 Goodwood races, winning 21.
The Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR in which Moss and co-driver Denis Jenkinson won the 1955
Mille Miglia will be on display at the Festival in a rare venture outside of the Mercedes Museum in Stuttgart.
The Stirling Moss Memorial Trophy, formerly the Kinrara Trophy, will have its second running as a permanent Revival fixture, and the September 17-19 event will also for a daily track parade host one of the largest collections of Moss’s cars.
The 78th Members’Meeting, on October 16-17, will include the third running of the Moss Trophy for pre-1963 GT cars.
The Duke of Richmond said: “Stirling and his wife Susie were such an important part of the Goodwood family for so many years. All of us here felt his loss especially keenly as we weren’t able to commemorate his incredible life as we would have wanted last year.”
Also five current Formula 1 teams are so far confirmed to attend this year’s Festival: McLaren, Mercedes, Red Bull, Ferrari and Williams.