Damon Hill hails Moss as F1 ‘great’

LONDON Damon Hill insisted on Monday that Stirling Moss ranks among Formula One’s greatest-ever drivers even though he never won the world championship title. Moss died on Sunday aged 90 following a long illness and tributes have poured in from around the F1 world. The British racer was regarded as the finest driver of his era by no lesser an authority than Juan Manuel Fangio. Fangio pipped Moss to the F1 crown three times between 1955 and 1957 and won five world titles. England’s Hill, who won the F1 crown in 1996, is also adamant Moss deserves to be placed in that hallowed company. ‘He’s right up there with the great names. He’s up there with (Jim) Clark and with Fangio and with (Jackie) Stewart and (Lewis) Hamilton and Niki Lauda and people like that,’ Hill told the BBC on Monday. ‘I don’t think anybody regarded him as anything less than one of the greats.’—AFP