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Stirling Moss regains unwanted F1 record

Nico Rosberg's first Formula One championship has had the side-effect of returning an unwanted accolade — the most successful grand prix driver never to win the title — to Britain's Stirling Moss. Until Sunday, when he clinched the championship by finishing second in the Abu Dhabi season-ender, Rosberg had carried that dubious honour on his shoulders thanks to his 23 race wins for Mercedes. The 87-year-old Moss, who competed in a golden but deadly era when there were far fewer races in the championship, ended his career in 1961 with 16 victories. A team mate at Mercedes to the great Argentine five-times world champion Juan Manuel Fangio, Moss finished runner-up four years in a...
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