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#1 dgs

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Posted 19 December 2014 - 08:17

According to Jess Pourret's book 'The Ferrari Legend - 250GTO Competition' book, Stirling Moss was entered with a co-driver who's surname was Solomon in Rob Walker's Ferrari 250GT SWB, chassis number 2735GT. 

 

It states  Entry no 152 (Stirling Moss/Solomon) DNS (did not start).

 

Does anyone know why he did not start this event? It seems strange that the organisers had not only issued a race number and also knew what the car/chassis number was. 



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#2 RobertE

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Posted 19 December 2014 - 12:54

I don't know, and Stirling can't recall. Solomon was a businessman in the Bahamas (Stirling had got to know him in Nassau, I imagine) and I know he reckoned him as a very fine and underrated amateur. But his business activities prevented him from doing much except at the Nassau speed week jolly. Perhaps he simply couldn't find the time?



#3 Jerry Entin

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Posted 19 December 2014 - 20:55

In fact, Stirling's close friend Norman Solomon was a Nassau-based journalist. In 1967 he became a Member of Parliament there. The bearded Solomon can often be seen with Moss in photos taken at Nassau and Sebring in the late 50s/early 60s.
 
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#4 Jerry Entin

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Posted 19 December 2014 - 20:56

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Nassau, December 1959. Socializing just before the start of the Governor's Trophy, with Solomon [brown jacket] on the right.
 
Others in the photo: Joakim Bonnier, one of the Rodriguez brothers and Stirling Moss, with Carroll Shelby wiping his forehead. Shelby raced Jim Hall's white Maserati 570S in the foreground. To the left of Moss in the background Augie Pabst can be seen. But who is that driver with the red socks, taking a photograph?
 
Photo: Benita Lane
 
[Willem Oosthoek Collection]

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#5 bradbury west

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Posted 19 December 2014 - 21:24

Crikey, Jerry, you and Willem seem to spoil us with photos almost every day. Thanks

Roger Lund



#6 Tomas Karlsson

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Posted 20 December 2014 - 14:02

My guess for the red-socked driver would be Ulf Norinder.



#7 Jerry Entin

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Posted 20 December 2014 - 17:56

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Tomas, we tend to agree with you.
 
Here is another photo taken early during the 1959 Nassau Speed Week. Sitting on the #30 OSCA is Ulf and one can detect a speck of red sock. Others in the photo are CAMORADI team members Denise McCluggage and Johnny Cuevas [dark polo shirt], and Guerrino Bertocchi.
 
 
Photo: Bob Bellows

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Posted 20 December 2014 - 18:18

According to Jess Pourret's book 'The Ferrari Legend - 250GTO Competition' book, Stirling Moss was entered with a co-driver who's surname was Solomon in Rob Walker's Ferrari 250GT SWB, chassis number 2735GT. 

 

It states  Entry no 152 (Stirling Moss/Solomon) DNS (did not start).

 

Does anyone know why he did not start this event? It seems strange that the organisers had not only issued a race number and also knew what the car/chassis number was. 

Back to the original question  (nothing against Ulf Norinder's red socks):

 

according to Maurice Louche's TdF book, Moss was indeed entered in the 1961 TdF (14-23 Sept), but choose to drive the  VIII International Gold Cup race at Oulton Park on 23 Sept 1961. He drove and won in Walker's Ferguson P99. He was rather busy in September. On the 10 of September he took part in the tragic Italian GP at Monza...(DNF)

 

 

Best regards Michael