Moss dies at age 90

Motorsport great Stirling Moss has died aged 90 following a long illness, the British driver's wife announced Sunday.

"It was one lap too many," Susie Moss told Britain's Press Association. "He just closed his eyes."

Although Moss never won the Formula One title, he finished runner-up four times and third three times.  In an era where it was common for drivers to race in different disciplines, a 14-year career saw Moss win 212 of the 529 races he entered. In Formula One, Moss won 16 Grand Prix.

But such was the enduring fame of the debonair driver that, for decades afterwards, the rhetorical phrase "Who do you think you are, Stirling Moss?" was supposedly the standard question all British policemen asked speeding motorists.

"Yes a policeman did once ask me," Moss told the Daily Telegraph in a 2012 interview. "But I couldn't work out if he was taking the mick."