Description
by Nicholas Watts
A Limired Editiion Print of just 50 copies, signed by Sir Stirling Moss
Image Size: 25.0″ x 19.0″ (635mm x 482mm)
Overall Size: 27.5″ x 24.0″ (704mm x 610mm)
The winning Mercedes 300SLR of Stirling Moss and navigator Denis Jenkinson heading from Brescia on the way to victory in the 1955 Mille Miglia. Aided by Denis Jenkinson’s pioneering navigation techniques, the pair won this great race in just 10 hours, 7 minutes and 48 seconds, an average speed of 97.96mph which was never to be beaten.
Since 1949 cars were assigned numbers according to their start time. For example, the 1955 Moss/Jenkinson car, No.722, left Brescia at 7:22 a.m., while the first cars had started at 9 p.m. the previous day. In the early days of the race even winners needed 16 hours or more, so most competitors had to start before midnight and arrived after dusk – if at all.
