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Stirling Speaks – Awful Cars

Sir Stirling Moss takes a candid look at some of the worst cars he’s ever had the unfortunate luck to race.

Sir Stirling Moss
Moss rates the always problematic BRM V-16 the worst car heÕs ever driven Ð hands down. Photo: Peter Collins

Stirling Moss On Truly Horrible Cars

Like any racing driver who has competed seriously, I am often asked what were my favorite cars, or the quickest, or the easiest to drive. That’s always a difficult question to answer because cars are so different from each other. Certain cars suit certain circuits, the others don’t, and some feel better to one driver than to another. It is always an interesting question and the discussion can easily go on for hours, or years in my case!

The question I am not asked so often is which cars I didn’t like, and I can answer that pretty quickly. At the top of the list, by a very long way, is the BRM 16-cylinder car, which was by far the most appalling car I ever drove. For different reasons, the Maserati 4.5 coupe is well up the list, and also for different reasons is the Eldorado Maserati. The 3.5-liter Maserati sports car wasn’t a nice car, so it seems I’m being tough on Maserati, but I’m not really, as the 250F Grand Prix car was certainly one of the best cars I ever drove.

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