BASEBALL | Page 3 CRICKET | Page 5 Taiwan bucks Don’t write off cancellations Dhoni, he still has with baseball plenty to offer, season says Hussain Monday, April 13, 2020 FOOTBALL Sha’ban 20, 1441 AH When all this is over, GULF TIMES sport can play a vital role in repairing hearts SPORT Page 2 MOTORSPORT British great Stirling Moss dies at 90 after long illness Moss raced against the likes of five-time champ Fangio; often considered the best racer to have never won a F1 driver’s title Reuters London, United Kingdom Moss files Born: Sept. 17, 1929 in London tirling Moss, the British Died: April 12, 2020 racing driver who ranked Racing career: 1948 to 1962 as one of the all-time Races entered: 529 (67 in Formula One greats de- Formula One) S 212 spite never winning the world Races won: championship, died yesterday at Formula One Grands Prix won: the age of 90 after a long illness. 16 (24 podiums) “He died as he lived, looking F1 Teams: Mercedez-Benz, wonderful,” his wife Susie told Maserati, Vanwall, Rob Walker the Daily Mail newspaper. Cooper, Lotus, HWM “He simply tired in the end and he just closed his beautiful eyes NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENTS and that was that.” n Second place in F1 drivers A teammate at Mercedes to Ar- championship four times, third gentine five-times world cham- overall on three other occasions. pion Juan Manuel Fangio, the n First British driver to win Briton survived one of the dead- a home Grand Prix in 1955 at liest eras of motorsport with 16 Aintree. grand prix wins in the 1950s and n Won the 1955 Mille Miglia early 1960s. — Italy’s 1,000-mile endur- In this May 1, 1955, picture, Four times a championship ance race — in a record time British racing driver Stirling runner-up, and also third over- of little over 10 hours, beating Moss is pictured after winning all on three occasions, no other then-Mercedes teammate Juan the Mille Miglia endurance race driver has won as many races Manuel Fangio by nearly 33 in Brescia, Italy. (AFP) without taking the title. minutes. Moss was also the first Briton n Nearly became the first Brit- n Inducted into the Interna- to win his home grand prix, beat- ish driver to win the F1 world tional Motorsports Hall of Fame ing Fangio at Liverpool’s Aintree championship in 1958 but lost in 1990. circuit for Mercedes in 1955, with by one point after sportingly n Knighted for his services to his name becoming a byword for asking Portuguese Grand Prix motor racing in 2000. speed for a generation of fans. stewards to reinstate compa- n Received the FIA gold News of his passing was triot Mike Hawthorn who had medal in 2006 for his outstand- mourned across the world of mo- been disqualified. ing contribution to motorsport, torsport, with Formula One hail- n Awarded the BBC Sports where he joked: “This is the first ing a ‘legend’ and ‘one of the true In this April 2, 2006, picture, former Formula One driver Stirling Moss of Britain sits in a Maserati replica car during the Australian Grand Prix at Personality of the Year in 1961. FIA award I’ve ever won.” greats’. the Albert Park race track in Melbourne. (Reuters) “A prodigious competitor, su- premely talented racer, and con- hailed “a mighty racer and gen- ards to reinstate his disqualified Hawthorn’s one, told Reuters in furd Moss in 2000 for services Miglia, a sportscar race on Italian in late 2016 and spent 134 days in summate gentleman, he leaves tleman”. compatriot at the Portuguese an interview at his home in 2009. to motor racing, the London- public roads, was as memorable. hospital battling a chest infec- an indelible mark of greatness on But for his sense of sportsman- Grand Prix. Moss ended his professional born dentist’s son retired from He covered the last stage, tion. the history of international mo- ship, Moss could have been Brit- “I felt that it was quite wrong career after an accident at Good- all forms of motor racing only in some 83 miles from Cremona He also survived a three-sto- torsport,” said McLaren offering ain’s first ever world champion in and I went and gave evidence on wood in 1962 left him uncon- 2011 when he was 81. to Brescia, at an average speed rey plunge down a lift shaft at their condolences. 1958 instead of Mike Hawthorn. Mike’s behalf and said no way scious for a month and paralysed He regarded the 1961 Monaco of 165.1 miles per hour from a his London home in March 2010, Former racer and television He lost the title by a single should he be disqualified,” Moss, for six months. Grand Prix as his greatest For- standing start. breaking both ankles and four commentator Martin Brundle point that year after asking stew- who won four races that year to Knighted Sir Stirling Crau- mula One race but the 1955 Mille Moss was taken ill in Singapore bones in his feet. REACTION Hamilton salutes ‘racing legend and comrade’ Moss AFP London, United Kingdom orld champion Lewis Hamilton yesterday described WStirling Moss, who has died at the age of 90, as a “racing legend” and a “comrade from a massively different time”. Although Moss never won the Formula One world title, he was regarded as one of motor sport’s greatest drivers, with his 1950s heyday seeing racers compete in a variety of disciplines. The 35-year-old Hamilton, a six-time world champion, be- In this July 17, 1954, picture, Argentinian driver Juan Manuel Fangio came a friend of Moss despite (right) races against Britain’s Stirling Moss at Silverstone. (AFP) the pair’s age difference and con- In this March 21, 2000, picture, Sir Stirling Moss (right) is warned by trasting backgrounds. policeman Alun Evans against speeding out of Buckingham Palace “I’m going to miss our chats, pion Damon Hill saying that was “Today we say goodbye to Sir after the former received his knighthood. (Reuters) your knowledge, your jokes, your a staggering achievement. Stirling Moss, the racing legend,” help, your direction, your infec- “He never won a world cham- reigning champion Hamilton am truly grateful to have had these 1960s, told the BBC: “I think he’s tious smile and seeing you push pionship but he won a lot of rac- In this May 15, 1961, picture, Stirling Moss is pictured after winning the wrote on Instagram. “I certainly special moments with him.” probably the best example of a whatever you drove to the max es, something like a third of all Monaco Grand Prix. (AFP) will miss our conversations. To racing driver there’s ever been. even in your 80s,” tweeted Button. the races he entered. It’s a ridicu- be honest, it was such a unusual ‘EXAMPLE OF A RACING “He walked like a racing driv- “Rest well Stirling. The racing lous statistic, he was legendary.” ian roads at an average speed of of a “true icon, a legend and a pairing, our friendship. DRIVER’ er, he talked like a racing driver, world will not be the same. My Hill, whose late father and 97.96mph (57.85kph) in 10 hours, gentleman”, while Ferrari called “Two people from massively Meanwhile, three-time world he behaved like a racing driver heart goes out to his wonderful two-time F1 world champion seven minutes and 48 seconds, to him a “formidable opponent”. different times and backgrounds champion Jackie Stewart, who should behave.” wife Susie.” Graham competed against Moss, be “one of the all-time great per- Jean Todt, president of motor but we clicked and ultimately came into Grand Prix racing Jenson Button, the 2009 world Moss won 212 of the 529 races reckoned Moss’s victory in the formances of our sport”. sport’s governing FIA, said Moss found that the love for racing we shortly after Moss’s injury-en- champion, hailed Moss who al- he entered across all events, with 1955 Mille Miglia, in which he Mercedes, one of Moss’s was “a true legend in motor sport both shared made us comrades. “I forced retirement in the early ways “drove to the max”. 1996 Formula One world cham- covered 1,000 miles of open Ital- former teams, mourned the loss and he will remain so forever”. Gulf Times 2 Monday, April 13, 2020 SPORT LOSS SPOTLIGHT Former Chelsea goalkeeper Bonetti dies aged 78 QFA chief reaches out to football community Reuters all-time appearances list Bonetti kept over 200 side after Banks pulled out records at Chelsea, mourned London, United Kingdom behind former defender Ron clean sheets for the club due to food poisoning. his death on Twitter. across the world Harris. over two decades and he also Following his retirement, “Really sad news for eve- “Chelsea Football Club made seven England appear- he was a goalkeeping coach ryone from @ChelseaFC By Sports Reporter ormer Chelsea and is hugely saddened to an- ances. with England, Chelsea, family,” he said. “R.I.P. “The Doha England goalkeeper nounce the passing today He was a back-up goal- Newcastle United, Fulham Cat”... Legend.” Peter Bonetti has of one of our indisputably keeper to Gordon Banks in and Manchester City. Former England captain Fdied at the age of 78 all-time great players, Peter the squad that won the 1966 “Our thoughts go out to and television presenter heikh Hamad after a long battle with ill- Bonetti,” the club said in a World Cup but he never the friends and family of Gary Lineker described bin Khalifa bin ness, the Premier League statement.