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Sir Stirling Moss has been named the Honoree of the Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance 2015, to be held March 12-15 at the Golf Club of Amelia Island at Summer Beach in Florida. Sir Stirling was the honoree of the first Amelia Island Concours in 1996 and will again be the honoree at the 20th annual event in 2015. Moss is the only person to be honored twice by the event.<\/p>\n

The cars that defined Sir Stirling\u2019s career in 1955, the Mercedes-Benz racing cars that brought him his greatest fame, will serve as the centerpiece of the 20th anniversary Amelia display field.<\/p>\n

On May 22, 1955 Moss and navigator Denis “Jenks” Jenkinson won the punishing Mille Miglia to score Mercedes-Benz\u2019s first victory of the World Sports Car Championship season. The epic 1000-mile open road race around the Italian peninsula took Moss nearly ten non-stop hours. The speed record he set 60 years ago still stands.<\/p>\n

Less than a month later Mercedes\u2019 withdrew from the 24 Hours of Le Mans after an accident involving one of the team\u2019s 300 SLRs and an Austin-Healey. Moss and his co-driver, reigning World Champion Juan Fangio, were leading by nearly three laps when the decision to withdraw came from Germany. The retirement potentially cost Moss another career first as the only man to win the Mille Miglia and the 24 Hours of Le Mans in the same season.<\/p>\n

In July 1955 Sir Stirling won his home Grand Prix at Aintree, England in the 300 SLR’s stablemate, the Formula 1 Mercedes-Benz W196. It was the first of 16 World Championship F1 victories for Moss. In October, Moss clinched the World Sports Car Championship for Mercedes-Benz winning the Targa Florio racing the same 300 SLR that had carried him to victory in the Mille Miglia and the Tourist Trophy in Dundrod, Ireland.<\/p>\n

Moss and his 300 SLR were the common denominator in the 1955 World Sports Car Championship season winning half the races of the six-race World Championship for Mercedes-Benz.<\/p>\n

\u201cSir Stirling set us on our path in 1996,\u201d said Bill Warner, Founder and Chairman of the Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance. \u201cTo have Sir Stirling and his Mercedes-Benz racers from the 1955 double world championship season on the field is a fantasy come true for us. This is absolutely unprecedented. Mercedes-Benz Classic, the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Hall of Fame Museum and Sir Stirling have given us all a moment unequalled in motorsport history.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSir Stirling\u2019s Mille Miglia, TT and Targa winning 300 SLR will join his W196 Monoposto and the Streamliner he raced and led with at Monza, his last Formula 1 race for Mercedes-Benz,\u201d said Warner. \u201cWe\u2019re honored to be able to present this extraordinary collection of Sir Stirling\u2019s Mercedes-Benz World Champions.\u201d<\/p>\n

The 2015 Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance will be held March 13-15th on the 10th and 18th fairways of The Golf Club of Amelia Island at The Ritz-Carlton, Amelia Island. The show\u2019s Foundation has donated over $2.5 million to Community Hospice of Northeast Florida, Inc. and other charities on Florida\u2019s First Coast since its inception in 1996.<\/p>\n

For additional information, visit AmeliaConcours.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n

[Source: Amelia Island Concours]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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