Pat Moss

From WOI Encyclopedia Italia

Pat Moss (born 1935) was a UK rally driver.

Younger sister of Stirling Moss, married to Erik Carlsson, March 3, 1963, London.

Author of The Story so Far, 1967, (William Kimber and Co - ISBN 0718304403).
Co-author of The Art and Technique of Driving 1965, (Heinemann publishers) with Erik Carlsson.

She started her sporting life on horseback, as a member of the UK team. In 1953 she started rally racing in a Morris Minor, after being the navigator for Ken Gregory, her brother's manager. In 1960 she was 1st in the Liège-Rome-Liège rally, with Ann Wisdom.

At age 34 she had won:

• European championship 1958, 1960, 1962, 1964 and 1965
• 1962 Dutch Tulip Rally and
• 1962 Deutschland Rally, in a B.M.C Cooper

After her marriage she joined Lancia and ran in several more rallies, also in SAAB cars:

• 2nd in the Sanremo rally ('flower rally')
• 2nd in the 1962 East African Safari Rally, in a Saab 96
• 7th in the Corsica rally
• 3rd overall in the 1965 Monte Carlo Rally
• 7x 1st in the Coupe des Dames of the MC rally