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Stirling Moss on the mend
2010-03-13 17:06
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London - British Formula One legend Stirling Moss said he was feeling better after breaking several bones falling three floors down a lift shaft, the 80-year-old said on his website Saturday.
Speaking in a video clip from his hospital bed, the motor racing star referred to the fall as a "shunt" and said he would be "bouncing back soon".
Moss suffered two broken ankles, four broken bones in his feet, skin aberrations and four chipped vertebrae following the accident at his central London home on March 6.
"I would like to thank everybody out there who was kind enough to write to me, email me or whatever after the shunt I had at the weekend," the knight said.
"I'm glad to say I'm feeling better. I'm not feeling great, but I am feeling better and hopefully get out of here within a week or so.
"Obviously I am going to take it a bit easy, which is a bit of a bore. But still, and I should be bouncing back as soon as I possibly can."
The knight's ankles were plated and pinned following the accident. He is expected to take six weeks to recover from his injuries.
In a Formula One career lasting from 1951 to 1961, Moss entered 66 Grands Prix, earning 16 wins, 16 pole positions and 24 podium finishes.
He came second in the World Championship four times, from 1955 to 1958 - the most runner-up finishes without ever claiming the title.
In his wider motor racing career, in which he raced more than 80 different types of cars, he won 212 of the 529 races he entered.
His career was ended by a near-fatal crash at Britain's Goodwood circuit, in southern England, in 1962.