He drove fast cars and fast bikes, he has won numerous grand prixs (but was never a world champion).
From the BBC......
Sir Stirling Moss is recovering in hospital after falling down a lift shaft at home and breaking both ankles. The Formula One racing legend, 80, fell three floors when his lift opened in error on Saturday. Paramedics were called to his home in Mayfair and he underwent surgery at the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel.
He also broke four bones in a foot, chipped four vertebrae and suffered skin damage, the website said. His family said he was recovering well. "He remained conscious throughout. With the assistance of Professor Sid Watkins he was moved on Sunday to a hospital closer to his home where he underwent surgery on both his ankles, which were plated and pinned.
"The door to the lift, that should have remained locked if the lift was not on the floor that it was called from, opened in error.
"He stepped into the narrow open shaft in the expectation that the lift would be present for him to walk into, as it should have been."
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