{"id":490495,"date":"2009-02-01T13:00:19","date_gmt":"2009-02-01T21:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportscardigest.com\/\/?p=48340"},"modified":"2024-12-27T03:06:48","modified_gmt":"2024-12-27T03:06:48","slug":"sir-moss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/sir-moss\/","title":{"rendered":"Sir Moss"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='memberful-global-teaser-content'>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sir Stirling Moss has just been given a special honor to mark 60 years as a member of the BRDC.\u00a0 He had just turned 19 when he was elected to the club and was the youngest member to that time.\u00a0 It struck me that he has been part of my landscape for most of my sentient life and still is, yet his top-line racing career ended in 1962, before the Beatles ever had a hit. 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