Westminster Abbey send-off for Sir Stirling
The extraordinary life and career of Britain’s greatest all-round racing driver will be celebrated at a memorial service
A memorial service for Sir Stirling Moss will be held in Westminster Abbey, London on May 8 to celebrate the life of one of our greatest all-round racing drivers.
His family will be joined by an expected congregation of 2000 people, including Sir Jackie Stewart who will be among the speakers. Outside the abbey, Moss’s 1955 Mille Miglia-winning Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR No722 will head a display of some of his most famous cars.
“Did you get up to much at the weekend, Denis?” Stirling Moss and Motor Sport’s Jenks in ‘722’
Moss’s death, age 90, came during the Covid pandemic, preventing his life being marked in a manner befitting his era-defining achievements.
Now that is being rectified as Stirling’s son, Stirling Elliot Moss, gives his father the long overdue send-off he deserves. “To be able to do this for my father – a man I admired in just about every way and one whom I still miss very much – is an unimaginable honour,” he said.
From May 9 for one week a few of Moss’s famous Mercs will be on display at the Royal Automobile Club, Pall Mall.