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Tooling through Sydney on his way to race in the New Zealand Grand Prix, Britain's balding Ace Driver Stirling Moss, 31, all but smothered himself in his own exhaust of self-crimination.
the Briton Stirling Moss, one of the greatest virtuosi of all time, believes that ultra-fast road-circuit driving is an art form related to ballet.
At this point Curtis attended the 1980 Pace sponsored Stirling Moss benefit day at Brands Hatch, and met fellow Farnham resident Victor Gauntlett.
Later in the year Brabham, again driving the Bobtail, tussled with Stirling Moss for third place in a non-championship Formula One race at Snetterton.
Here, former rivals Brabham and Stirling Moss shake hands at the 2004 Goodwood Revival meeting.
Despite his three titles, and although John Cooper considered him " the greatest ", Formula One journalist Adam Cooper wrote in 1999 that Brabham is never listed among the Top 10 of all time, noting that " Stirling Moss and Jim Clark dominated the headlines when Jack was racing, and they still do ".
A new group of Ringmeister arose to dominate the race – Alberto Ascari, Juan Manuel Fangio, Stirling Moss, Jim Clark, John Surtees, Jackie Stewart and Jacky Ickx.
In 1972: Won by Tim Powell, HRH Prince Michael of Kent, William Meyers, Stirling Moss.
The technique was later utilised by drivers such as Stirling Moss.
Architects such as Frank Gehry, Robert Venturi, Eric Owen Moss, James Stirling and Arthur Erickson were brought in to bring the campus more up to date.
Despite promotion involving former Formula One racing driver Stirling Moss, the reaction upon its release was that the C5 was impractical in the British climate meaning it was only comfortably usable in southern England in the spring and summer, and possibly dangerous on busy roads.
Prominent owners of Facel Vegas included Pablo Picasso, Ava Gardner, Ringo Starr, Joan Fontaine, Stirling Moss, Tony Curtis, Dean Martin, Fred Astaire, Maurice Trintignant, Brian Rix and several Saudi princes.
Race-car driver Stirling Moss would drive his HK500 from event to event rather than fly.
A Lotus Formula One car driven by Stirling Moss won the marque's first Grand Prix in 1960 at Monaco in a Lotus 18 entered by privateer Rob Walker.
* Sir Stirling Moss
Sir Stirling Craufurd Moss, OBE FIE ( Fellow of the Institute of Engineers ) ( born 17 September 1929 in London ) is a former racing driver from England.
Stirling Moss put on quite a show in his privately entered Lotus by winning from the pole.
Stirling Moss, in his final Grand Prix, retired with engine problems.
He then retired to New Zealand, returning to touring cars to race occasionally in the Benson & Hedges 500 race at Pukekohe Park Raceway in the late 1970s first in Chrysler Chargers then later a Volkswagen Golf, partnering Stirling Moss on occasion for the 500 kilometre endurance format.
In American popular culture, his name has become synonymous with speed, similar to Barney Oldfield in the early twentieth century and Stirling Moss in the United Kingdom.
The Grand Prix returned to Albert Park in 1956, Melbourne's Olympic Games year to play host to a group of visiting European teams, led by Stirling Moss and the factory Maserati racing team who brought a fleet of 250F Grand Prix cars and 300S sports racing cars.
Twelve British drivers have won the British Grand Prix, with Englishman Stirling Moss being the first and Scotsman Jim Clark winning 5 times, the most of any driver other than French driver Alain Prost, who also won the British Grand Prix 5 times ( all of them at Silverstone ).
Tony Brooks and Stirling Moss also won together at Aintree in 1957.
Daninos counted among his clients celebrities including ( Tony Curtis, Ava Gardner ) and racing drivers ( Stirling Moss, Maurice Trintignant ).
BMC works entries recorded class wins at Sebring, with such drivers as Stirling Moss, Bruce McLaren and Steve McQueen taking the wheel, as well as the Targa Florio and Mugello sports car races.

Stirling and scored
' 200 ' at Aintree in 1960 Porsche scored a 1-2-3 victory with Stirling Moss, Jo Bonnier and Graham Hill all in 718's.
During their prime, HWM employed such future stars as Stirling Moss and Peter Collins, and the Belgian Johnny Claes scored their first victory, in the Grand Prix des Frontières at Chimay.
He scored the winning goal against Stirling Albion on 25 August 2007 and played in Dunfermline's UEFA Cup matches at home 16 August and away 30 August against BK Hacken FC of Sweden.
Harper's season was rather inconsistent, though on March 25, 2008, he scored a hat-trick in the re-arranged fixture against First Division strugglers Stirling Albion, whom he had scored his only other goal of the season against a few months earlier.
He had scored twice during his spell at Celtic, once in a UEFA Cup tie with Cwmbran Town and another in the 8 – 0 thrashing of Stirling Albion in the League Cup.

Stirling and company's
Engineers at the company's research lab carried out a systematic comparison of various power sources and determined that the almost forgotten Stirling engine would be most suitable, citing its quiet operation ( both audibly and in terms of radio interference ) and ability to run on a variety of heat sources ( common lamp oil – " cheap and available everywhere " – was favoured ).

Stirling and first
During the Anglo-French War ( 1627 – 1629 ), under Charles I, by 1629 the Kirkes took Quebec City, Sir James Stewart of Killeith, Lord Ochiltree planted a colony on Cape Breton Island at Baleine, Nova Scotia and Alexander ’ s son, William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling established the first incarnation of “ New Scotland ” at Port Royal.
In 1959, Cooper obtained 2. 5-litre engines for the first time and Brabham put the extra power to good use by winning his first world championship race at the season-opening Monaco Grand Prix after Jean Behra's Ferrari and Stirling Moss's Cooper failed.
He is the second British architect to win the Stirling Prize twice: the first time for the American Air Museum at the Imperial War Museum Duxford in 1998, and the second for 30 St Mary Axe in 2004.
This curtailed work on their first heavy bomber design, the Supermarine B. 12 / 36 which was replaced by the Short Stirling.
* Earl W. Bascom, rodeo cowboy and artist, designs and makes rodeo's first high-cut rodeo chaps at Stirling, Alberta Canada.
* Earl W. Bascom, rodeo cowboy and artist, designs and makes rodeo's first one-hand bareback rigging at Stirling, Alberta Canada.
The revolts which broke out in early 1297, led by William Wallace, Andrew de Moray and other Scottish nobles, forced Edward to send more forces to deal with the Scots, and although they managed to force the nobles to capitulate at Irvine, Wallace and de Moray's continuing campaigns eventually led to the first key Scottish victory, at Stirling Bridge.
In terms of national government, Stirling forms part of county constituency of Stirling constituency of the House of Commons, electing one Member of Parliament ( MP ) to the House of Commons of the parliament of the United Kingdom by first past the post system.
This made Stirling Albion the first fully owned community club in the history of British football, after previous attempts made by Manchester United, Liverpool and Rangers.
As was customary, if the King died first, the Dowager of Scotland would have for her lifetime her jointure houses of Falkland Palace, Stirling Castle, Dingwall Castle, and Threave, with the rentals of the corresponding Earldoms and Lordships.
At first Guise stayed unwillingly at Linlithgow Palace, then in July 1543 she moved with the infant queen to Stirling Castle.
Stirling was the first United Kingdom university to introduce the system of two semesters rather than having three terms.
Two different sets of numbers bear this name: the Stirling numbers of the first kind and the Stirling numbers of the second kind.
Stirling numbers of the first kind are written with a small s, and those of the second kind with a large S ( Abramowitz and Stegun use an uppercase S and a blackletter S respectively ).
Unsigned Stirling numbers of the first kind
Stirling numbers of the first kind ( without the qualifying adjective unsigned ) are the coefficients in the expansion
The Stirling numbers of the first and second kind can be considered to be inverses of one another:
That is, let s be the lower triangular matrix of Stirling numbers of first kind, so that it has matrix elements
Abramowitz and Stegun give the following symmetric formulae that relate the Stirling numbers of the first and second kind.
* Francis L. Miksa ( 1901 – 1975 ), Stirling numbers of the first kind, " 27 leaves reproduced from typewritten manuscript on deposit in the UMT File ", Mathematical Tables and Other Aids to Computation, vol.
A co-production between 20th Century Fox and Warner Bros. ( this was the first film to be a joint venture from two major Hollywood studios ), it was adapted by Stirling Silliphant from a pair of novels, The Tower by Richard Martin Stern and The Glass Inferno by Thomas N. Scortia and Frank M. Robinson.
* Stirlingville is an unincorporated community in the township at This was at first called " Jolly's Landing " and was renamed for William P. Stirling, a local storekeeper and steamboat operator.

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