As you might imagine, I have not done much work in the last month so I was pleased to see this article by Andrew Frankel in the current issue of Motorsport in which he is rather flattering about me and suggests that he and I might just have played a small part in British history. I photographed Stirling for the first in time, just before his 70th birthday in the autumn of 1999 at his house in Mayfair and although he was initially a bit wary and slightly irascible he soon relaxed as he changed into his Mille Miglia racing overalls for the shoot, telling me about the house with its high tech carbon fibre lift (made for him, I believe, by McLaren) and all the time addressing me as ‘dear boy’, a habit I later learned that avoided him having to remember people’s names, or so I was told. We met a couple of times more for portrait shoots for different magazines over the next few years, I doubt he looked forward to it much but I always did. The term ‘legend’ is carelessly used these days but he was undoubtedly one of the few people who I’ve worked with who had really earned that title, particularly as his racing career had come to an end with the accident at Goodwood in 1962, before I was even born, but for the next sixty years he remained a constant presence in the motor racing world. I can’t imagine that my pictures really played any part in his subsequent knighthood, but you never know….

You can read the article here: https://www.motorsportmagazine.com/articles/single-seaters/f1/is-this-the-magazine-cover-that-secured-stirling-moss-a-knighthood