Motor-Racing MOSS DRIVES AGAIN
Sports Car Lap Record (Special Correspondent N.Z.P.A.) LONDON, July 26. After five weeks in hdspital recovering from his accident in Belgium, when he fractured his legs and injured his back, Stirling Moss went to Silverstone, Northamptonshire, and smashed the sports car lap record. He drove a new 254-litre, rearengined Lotus Climax in an unofficial lap record of 103 miles an hour. This astonished everybody. A Lotus mechanic said: “He must be made of concrete.” Rob Walker, Moss's motor-racing patron, said: “Considering it’s a new car which has never been out before, I think it’s pretty fabulous." Moss said: “I’m hoping to drive this car in the Swedish Sports Car Grand Prix on August 7. I want to do a small race before I do a big one. I'm hoping I shall be all right for the next world championship event, the Portuguese Grand Prix on August 14. Moss also did a few laps in a Formula I Cooper Climax which had a new engine. “I’m running in the car and I had to run myself in, too, as suggested by my doctor,” he said. “I don’t feel stiff, but I get a slight limp when I have been stuck in one position."
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29268, 28 July 1960, Page 22
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